Mmm, eventually I was dragged into yt-dlp because all my other programs already hooked with it. All the more power to youtube-dl, but....

This seems like it's one of the weaker arguments centered on a qwerty redesign. I wonder how valuable, or replaceable, the Scroll Lock key is. Num Lock feels like it could be removed altogether. My keyboards have many keys that provide the same function, one that requires [shift] and ones that don't.

It's weaker because people use the Caps Lock key to switch to a different language, which I imagine is valuable if you have to type a lot in two languages.

So qwerty has imperfections, but finding a better keyboard is a very interesting thing to me!

I sent in this story two days ago, and I don't even get a mention when you post it....

We've had programs writing poetry for a while now. The earliest I'm aware of is RACTER with The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, 1983. I found much of it to be banal, but I found some of it to be amazing. It wrote:

More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.

Linux can be installed on tablets. I would research a seven inch tablet, a distro that suits you, install Linux, encrypt the hard-drive, and power-down the device when not in use.

It would be resource consuming for the NSA to redirect a computer assembled in Britain and shipped to a Brit, but it would be trivial for the NSA to redirect a computer shipping from America. Therefore, this news is more damaging to US firms.

I'm not sure if the NSA seeking to exploit technology is particularly damaging to US firms. The NSA is seeking to exploit all technologies, not just American-based ones.
I think the part that does damage American firms, was the end of the second article. It read that the NSA has been redirecting the shipping of some computers to their address, installing software or hardware, repacking the device, and shipping it to the purchaser.

I'm disinterested. I tried one link: Department of Fisheries & Oceans muzzles its scientists. The article is a long tirade against

Under revised Fisheries and Oceans Canada rules, scientists working in its central and Arctic region cannot be involved in publishing research until a DFO division administrator has reviewed it "for any concerns/impacts to DFO policy."

It goes on for fifteen paragraphs about how George Orwell would love it, the government is awful, this is an attack on science. Eventually they included a paragraph to give at least some information:

Kevin Stringer, DFO ecosystems and oceans science assistant deputy minister, said the aim of the "minor modifications to publication procedures" are to eliminate duplication of peer reviews and ensure government intellectual property rights are respected in third-party publications. "Publishing and communicating scientific work is a crucial element of what we do," he wrote in an email.

I didn't check out the large number of links, but a large number newsbending links does not a journalist make. Don't use blogs to get your news.

It's hard to see how his nationality is relevant if the nation is not involved.

The short explanation is that he didn't do anything illegal, so you're trolling by pretending:

If he didn't do anything illegal, they must be trumped up charges.

It was you that was being quoted for apologizing. It seems pretty straight-forward what you were apologizing for.

Your comment history doesn't absolve you of anything. If you replied to a thousand comments that were in no way trolling comments, that doesn't mean your one-thousand and first comment couldn't possibly have been a troll. Each comment is judged on it's merits. But I acknowledged you seem to be unfamiliar with legal logic to have been aware of that.

This is a shameful response.

It's not illegal to purchase chemicals, even if they are chemicals related to bomb-making. I might give you that it's merit to interview someone, but performing legal activities is not a reason to incarcerate someone, even if it's temporarily. You're defence didn't illustrate any reason to suggest incarcerating him for a year was merited.

I think it's pretty intuitive you yourself would be outraged for being incarcerated for a year because of the coincidence of performing several legal activities.

The big ship has become notoriously difficult to keep in repair.

For instance, the holodeck safety protocols continually go offline.

Artist's have _always_ been willing to take credit for their own work. We know of plenty of authors prior to the last few hundred years: Livy, Homer, Aquinas, you name it. The fact that some authors opened their work by honouring their muse, or inspiration, has nothing to do with them taking credit for their own work. Some of them, certainly not all, worked in the tradition of honouring the inspiration, but they still took credit for their work. Otherwise, how would we know who wrote what.

The only exception is author's who wrote in culture's that pre-date writing, or did not have reasonable access to writing, such as the Beowulf poet, or the Green Knight poet. Even then, I'm sure the only reason authorship wasn't recorded was because those that orally passed on the story, excluded the original author's credits.

None of the above. Receiving email with potentially malicious content would be so devastating for some organizations that it's not worth the security risk. While it's unlikely their security would be breached by an unknown vulnerability, if they were breached, the data loss would be devastating. Thus, when they can receive documents through a secure fax which could not breach their database, they will sometimes opt to receive transmissions through fax.