Peak programming is Visual C++ 6.0a. It even has it's own test suite, they were called "debuggers". You could even step through code line by line and watch variables!

Agreed. Office XP / Office 2003 were and still are Peak Office when it comes to stability and consistency.

GAPPS for everything else, lol

There was a change in management and the former management wanted to build fabs and the current management wants to cut back.

Federal government paid Intel to build fabs. As they're not doing that, taking the money back is reasonable.

Intel is complaining about the money being taken in stock. Alternatively it could have been taken in cash which intel would have had to put as debt on its books. I think the stock is easier for them. US is also trying to build a sovereign wealth fund. 11 billion of intel stock is a reasonable addition to that.

Apparently Apple does not allow 3D porn in these devices. Looks like a classic rerun of Sony Betamax vs JVC VHS format wars. Sony prohibited porn and JVC was not too strict and that tipped the balance. (Well, I did not check snopes, because I would rather live with this belief than knowing the truth)

The revolutionary new product from Apple iGrain is the recommended way to dry wet iPhones. It retails at 14.99$ a pound. Use of any other grain to dry wet phones voids the warranty. It has special sensors to detect non Apple approved grains being used to dry the phone.

Chrome should encrypt the save state and it can be decrypted only by chrome...

I see, MS can always launch chrome and scrape the URL from the screen ... yeah, I see chrome cant protect itself from this ... MS owns the OS it can override all permissions and stuff.

They buy discover, charge it to their discover card, and the clerk will ask sweetly, "do you want to get 50$ in cash too?"

It does not have to before. But if they trace the bomb threat to a device that has ProtonMail, once court orders it, all Meta data on that phone should be disclosed.

It's not some random political act. A hoax bomb threat. ProtonMail should comply, if it can't it should be banned.

Who sold during the run up? If none it's a mistake. If some insider did, it's definitely a scam.

One can fill 100 ton railroad cars with sand/rock, move them up hill in summers and store them up in the plateau. Then roll them down in winter... Did some back of the envelope calc. It's not likely to beat batteries in cost. But energy storage for months possible

The author list is longer than the paper. Every last technician who touched a switch or tightened a bolt is credited.

Developers Developers Developers

Likely to be one of the shortest books.

Standards XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

Where do you hide a tree? In the forest, of course!

How do you hide your data? Create a forest to hide it!

Set up random boring channels like CSPAN. Or channels of polar opposite interest, like Classical music and wresting. And keep streaming them to the tv whenever you go out. With enough randomization, they will never know what you are really watching and what is shown to the empty room