Well, if it does happen, I for one would cheer. 30 years in IT and Oracle has been nothing but a massive headache and cost to every...single...one of my customers.

I find it depressingly sad that humanity has such divisions (politically and otherwise) that we can't all collaborate to move forward, rather than crying "I'm going to take my ball and play in my own sandbox, I don't want your toys in my box".

ThinkGeek used to have a "toy" about the size of a silver dollar, with stickyback. Its sole function was to emit a single "beep" at random intervals between 1-30 mins. Used it on a buddy with hilarious results :)

Neroâ(TM) s fiddling is attracting an ever greater audience (sigh).

That's all we need, another Webex, Zoom, Teams, etc. clone. Lord help us all.

When are these DarkSide undergarment stains going to be identified, and who's going to take them out?

Nice to know they don't mean to "cause any problems for society". Last time I checked, preventing transport of essential goods and services doesn't fall into that category...

And you gave up the chance to go on a date with Michelle Pfifer?

Those Ukraine girls really knock me out!

I guess Amazon has not been checking the local weather forecasts... https://scroll.in/article/9775...

Amen brother. My Samsung TV has great hardware, but the TVOS and the apps suck rocks, like so much so I have to hard reset (pull the plug) once a week so Netflix and Weather App and Amazon and Crave work. I was so peeved I went and bought a Roku, and have not regretted that. Samsung even forces ads on my TV home page now I can't get rid of (and I've tried blocking the samsung URLs from my firewall). My Galaxy S8 is constantly resetting notifications and screen display settings without my knowledge or consent. The microphone sucks, and the list goes on. Never Buying Samsung Again

Much agree with Kenwd0elq, My Samsung 65" TV has been a disappointment since I got it in 2015. Power on the remote stopped working after 2 years. The TV OS sucks rocks, and half my apps need to be reinstalled every few months, and Netflix freezes and requires a TV Hard Reboot once a month, and now there's been ads since the January update, which I can't get rid of. I finally got a Roku, much better aps. Not much better luck with my Samsung S8. Notifications keep resetting to silent without me doing anything, and I've had to factory reset the damn thing three times in two years. Never. Buying. Samsung. AGAIN.

Humanity is just flat out doomed...

In the early days (80's and 90's) Software companies sucked you in with low initial licence charge, but nailed you on the annual maintenance (CA and many others were guilty of this). Business customers paid even less up front (Volume Pricing discounts normally in the 25-45% range from list), but still got nailed on the maintenance. Now it's the SaaS per seat model of gouging. No more maintenance to worry about Sir, just remember to pay us your monthly subscription fee .

Same issue in Quebec (Canada). I didn't have a choice in my home. Either I let them install the e-meter, or I would have to pay Hydro Quebec $200/yr to keep my old, functioning very nicely for 15 years, mechanical meter.

I check my bill every month to see if there's some differences from the previous month or same period the year earlier, but so far, knock on wood, nothing amiss so far.

I am, however, ticked at the craziness of it all. These eMeters are more expensive per unit that the sound mechanical ones, they haven't been around long enough to give anyone a good idea of mean time to failure (MTTF). I've worked with embedded (now called IoT) devices for 20+ years, and no electronic device I've ever heard of has even 1/2 the MMTF of it mechanical device it's supposed to replace.

Not only that, but it contributes to additional wireless radiation and congestion on the wireless frequencies it uses to bunny hop to the closest meter or concentration point.

I can ramble on, but this is just another reason to hate these things.