Linus Sebastian built a computer in 2020 duplicating Torvalds' configuration. He didn't build a computer for him.

CowboyNeal, obviously.

> They'd feed babies into a woodchipper if it was a) profitable and b) legal.

Not so much. Replace b with "thought they could get away with it" and you're closer to the truth. Companies like Twitter only care about legality when there are either monetary consequences likely to exceed the profits from breaking the law, or when executives will obviously face actual consequences.

If you want something that prevents 100% of infections, you're not looking for a vaccine, you're looking for death.

I'm pretty sure it's a legal rather than a technological roadblock.

Best to be careful with that and set it on the low side, unfortunately. Because if you give people a limit, a lot of them will start seeing it as a target.

Macs were, at the time, a pathetically small percentage of the personal computer market, so weren't exactly a great example to prove that Windows wasn't a monopoly, even after Microsoft invested in Apple to prop them up.

Because when Apple is permitted to get away with anti-consumer practices, Samsung decides that that's ok now and follows suit. And suddenly you're not just talking about Apple.

Whose device? Once a customer has bought it they should be able to install whatever they want on it, because at that point it's their device.

Regulation is always about telling people what they can't do. You can't dump radioactive waste into the water table, you can't pump lead into the air, you can't sell people a car that doesn't work without either telling them it doesn't work or trying to fix it. I quite like the idea of telling companies that they can't force their customers to only buy from the company store. I also like the idea of forcing companies to not artificially restrict people from repairing their products. Regulation is not always a bad thing.

They aren't paid. Which doesn't make it better.

"Better than China" is similar to "better than being flayed alive", insofar as it leaves a lot of room for pretty bloody terrible.

A jury may have the power of nullification, but they don't have the right.

I'm not comfortable going that far past the mass of the entire universe.

If you're talking about the ones in California, they're fake because they have "official ballot drop box" written on them without actually being official ballot drop boxes. And they're also illegal because, from what I'm given to understand, Californian law doesn't allow people to just collect ballots and submit them without some extra steps that aren't possible with a drop box.