I think all of this is based on some fairly serious musculation by the government on where the power lies in this dynamic. Encumbering social media like this doesn't mean you'll sell more newspapers, but these companies are only going to stick around if it's profitable for them to do so. If Google, facebook and others pulled their news services, it would decimate the newspapers in the region, not help them.

Unless you dramatically rethink the network architecture. It might not work well for traditional browsing, but it could make sense for a peer to peer system like ipfs if the app layer you built on top of it made sense. We've dealt with limited bandwidth and high network latency before.

This is kinda cool. I wonder why they settled on frog cells. But, if we're going to create xenobots, we're going to need gnosicons too. I for one, welcome our miniature organic overlords.

In the old days, I would have popped a blood vessel over something like this. Just the inconvenience of it. Having to go back and write new code to adjust to the changing browser landscape. But browsers are always changing. Standards evolve. Things like Javascript, in their current form would have been unrecognizable 20 years ago, and that's sort of the nature of the beast. It's hard to hate Google when they pander as hard to developers as they do. Besides, radical changes in cookies means that people will need to hire devs like me to maneuver around it. Honestly, I'm more worried about user agents going away.

I really like this idea. Don't see why it couldn't be done the same way we do with devices that require a lot of AA or D batteries. Spring load everything, I say.

So does this mean that my favorite, Heart Surgery Elsa will no longer be available? That's a shame, my kid loves that one.

I told you so. If for no other reason that society has an interest in insuring that illegal narcotics are safe and available.

Didn't the owner of in and out just have a religious awakening, where they're preaching at the customers now? That can't be positive for employee sentiment.

How about a spiked baseball bat? I think libertarians are idiots, and their arguments are asinine. Maybe in a perfect utopia, where everyone relies on their bootstraps or some such. I have never been against violence. Let's end the spammers.

Unless I'm actively in the job market, there's no point. And even then, it makes more sense to communicate by LinkedIn and email. Legitimately starting to wonder why I even own a phone anymore, other than as a handy mobile internet device. If I could get a plan without phone service, I would.

This is some incredibly interesting use of some incredibly interesting technology. Not what I expect from Microsoft at all. I'm not sure if I can get used to their kinder, gentler selves when it comes to this kind of stuff.

It's El Camino ugly. I think it'll grow on people.