In other words, they blue-shifted the image back into the visible spectrum, which I'm sure would do a decent job of counteracting at least some of the extreme red-shift you get from observing such distant objects.

Whether they actually tried to calibrate the blue-shifting (e.g. by looking for emission spectra), I don't know, but I'm sure it wouldn't be out of the question.

I wouldn't say that the MIDI synth in your PC is necessarily a different thing - it's "effectively" the same as a hardware synthesizer in that, if you've got an appropriate adapter hooked up to your computer (whether via USB, RS232, or the old DA15 "gameport" on old soundcards), it can receive MIDI data from other devices and convert into audio to play through your speakers.

I say "effectively" because real MIDI synthesizers probably do way more than the simplistic "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" on all Windows installations, but there are other MIDI synths on Windows (such as VirtualMIDISynth) which do a lot more.

As far as I've heard, it's only required if you're running the Home edition - if you install the Professional edition, you can just click "Sign-in Options" during initial setup and select "Offline account". Granted, it'll still try to convince you why that's a bad idea, but it will still take "no" for an answer.

Firefox has always used its own trusted root store rather than using the one provided by the operating system (unless you turned on a specific hidden setting). Does this mean that Chrome is now copying Firefox for a change?

The "Buy Now" section lists 6 different versions: EU, US, DE, FR, IT, and ES. If you want to see what the US version looks like, there's an article on Hackaday with pictures of it.

There are different editions for different regions, but the website strangely only showcases the UK keyboard version. There's an article on Hackaday with a picture of the US keyboard version, and it should hopefully be to your liking.

What about dog's milk?

"Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other type of milk, dog's milk, (since) no bugger'll drink it. Plus, of course, the advantage of dog's milk is that when it goes off it takes exactly the same as when it's fresh."

That's not really a fair comparison, because most pocket calculators will also give you a result of 18 from that set of inputs. If, on the other hand, you switch the mode from "Standard" to "Scientific", you'll get the correct answer of 12. This holds true not only for the UWP app on Windows 10 but also the various versions of "calc.exe" dating all the way back to Windows 3.1.

It probably wouldn't hurt to make backups of all of your data on any Intel-powered devices, since if there turn out to be remotely-exploitable backdoors in this breach, you're probably going to need them very soon...

When I manually installed updates last week, I noticed an entry "2019-04 Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB4493132)" in the "Optional Updates" section, whose "More Info" page clearly states that it's responsible for displaying the warning message about support ending. Thankfully, Windows 7 (and 8.1) still allows you to Hide individual updates that you don't want.

It would've been nice if the article had mentioned that...

You were probably using the "Touch Cover", which is indeed very difficult to use (since there's no tactile feedback). There's also the "Type Cover", which is basically like a super-thin laptop keyboard (backlit mechanical keys), and it's also the only one available for the Surface 3 (it's a different size, and Microsoft seemingly didn't bother making a Surface 3 Touch cover). Unfortunately, the keyboard has to be purchased separately, and it's also rather expensive ($130).

"Hi, we've detected a virus on your machine etc etc"

"Which one? Is it my old [OS] system downstairs, or the newer one upstairs running [OS]?"

".....[click]beeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

For best results, pick semi-recent Windows versions OSes (XP, Vista, 7, 8, or 8.1) that you aren't actually running and see if they actually try to guess which one it is, then see how they react when you casually mention that it's been turned off for the past several months or suffered from a hardware failure.

Considering that Server 2003 is a different underlying OS version (NT 5.2 / build 3790 instead of NT 5.1 / build 2600, having a completely different set of service packs), this might be easier said than done. The only way you could "safely" accomplish something like this would be to install Server 2003 [R2] and then somehow hack it from Server mode to Workstation mode. Now, if you were running Windows XP x64 Edition (which is NT 5.2), this would be much more plausible (because it takes the same updates as Server 2003 x64, including the service packs).

If you really want to insert an IP address without it pointing to a real computer, you have a bunch of choices:

• RFC 5737: IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation - 192.0.2.*, 198.51.100.*, and 203.0.113.*
• RFC 3927: Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses - 169.254.*.*
• RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets - 10.*.*.*, 172.16.*.* thru 172.31.*.*, and 192.168.0.* thru 192.168.255.*

Including numbers greater than 255 just makes it look obviously fake.