The hackers I mean. Stealing has consequences.

So he has something to distract his constituents from why he fled Texas when the people were freezing to death due to Abbott's and Ercot's incompetence.

Also, because the Wikiepedia article about the battle at the Alamo explicitly states, "About one hundred Texians, wanting to defy Mexican law and maintain the institution of chattel slavery in their portion of Coahuila y Tejas by seeking secession from Mexico, . . ." To him, telling the truth is "liberal" bias.

Oh fuck off. The headline is exactly correct. Something was worth X yesterday and today it's worth Y, where Y is substantially less than X.

If you had to sell right now, you would get far less than for the product than if it you sold it yesterday. Hence, erased market cap.

It's used every single day in the financial industry and is regularly quoted in headlines when a company's stock plunges.

I've seen 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 both be revoked from e-book readers.

well, yes, but that's always been the case.

But the inverse isn't generally true, a pair of boots that will last a lifetime aren't available for $80 in most cases.

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My retention of physical media is simple. Once I have it, it's a lot harder for publishers or distributors to take it away from me or to otherwise prevent me from using it.

Plus there's something about having to make an intentional choice to watch something rather than the system itself telling me what it thinks I should watch that's helpful, if I can't decide what to watch then perhaps I shouldn't watch anything and should do something else with my time.

yeah. I'd rather have the feature internal. The thing is that the drive itself doesn't need a full cubic-shape of volume, there needs to be enough room for the disc itself and for the read mechanism, but the read mechanism doesn't cover the entire footprint of the disc. It was doable in the past and should well be doable in the future.

I'd be willing to settle for OS support and updates for five years after last sale of a given rev. Microsoft stopped selling Windows 10 on January 31st 2023. I would insist on support through January 31st 2028 in this model.

Ideally I would like to see it go even longer than that.

I obtain a whole lot of my technology secondhand, with college surplus being one of my favorite vectors. If I have to buy new, I tend to buy high-end because I don't physically break my stuff and high-end will usually have the longest service-life. That is, if the software folks don't intentionally abandon it by refusing to support their software or to release new versions that run on the hardware.

So long as Trump and his minions have the same done to them, deal. Fauci has given decades of his life to help people so if he has to be sacrificed to get rid of a larger evil, so be it.

Congratulations. You have reverted to the way things were written 2,400 years ago.

What a great improvement. Certainly better than writers no longer using the Oxofrd comma in sentences.

The problem is that this attitude has infected mainstream engineering too.

This is so damn obvious that it's not funny.

Technology has been pushed into a rapid lifecycle through a combination of manufacturers insisting upon growth of their businesses, software support becoming nonexistent far too rapidly, and a marketing-push that one has to have the latest. It is further increased by the manufacture of low-end garbage electronics that doesn't last very long but is popular with many buyers because they're only looking at initial purchase price.

If you want to slow this down, compel software support for computers, phones, and other electronics for a mandatory extended period of time after final sale, and don't buy low-end garbage devices that you feel need replacement because they wear out so quickly (aka Terry Pratchett's Boots Theory). Buy reasonably good products and skip the truly cheap stuff.

I come from the future to second.