Ouch. That's the rub indeed, people are getting fucked over by their "service" "providers". I'm able to use everything so far from Linux; the local hospital's telehealth and my bank's website will even work in Firefox, but I need to use Chromium (ungoogled is OK) to pay my bills. Otherwise I have to use the phone payment system, which of course is super duper easy actually but I'd still rather do it on the web.

Most schools lost interest in Apple when PCs became usable, around Windows 2000.

The artifact is important because if you examined it you would find it is bullshit. Same rain he won't give his prompt, you could replicate the experiment and produce your own bullshit which proved it was bullshit

To be clear, the language would have to change if you wanted it to outlaw corporate surveillance, because the existing one applies only to government. And I suppose the new one would also have to explain "corporate" and how that's different from other kinds of organizations or surveillance by individuals.

This is older than cellular phones, let alone smart ones.

Neither does Google any more. You can put quotes around terms and still get searches which don't contain them

Debian is always behind, they don't have IBM money or a total disregard for the GPL like redhate does

Which great software has Apple designed?

If you hated to say it you could have just not done so, especially since this is not the right way to do this from the consumers' point of view where they are losing resellability.

I was in Texas for less extreme weather than this, and it killed a bunch of people because it went on for a month.

Even the bush administration acknowledged AGW on their way out the door... Even the Clinton administration talked a good game but only late and mostly talk

AC is commonly delivered by one medium thick wire and two skinny hoses. You can generally get all three through a hole of around 3-4cm.

Every screener I saw was back in the day of DVDs. A friend of mine worked for a video rental place and they got screeners a once in a while. Most of them were B movies that may have not been released so it was not as if we got to see blockbusters early or for free.

This is false. I run into this problem even for non technical issues like billing fuckery. Most call center employees don't know how and don't want to, they aren't paid enough to.

Slashdot's main problem is the total lack of will to fix anything. For example they know who the pure trolls are, but won't stop them. In fact they disabled but then re-enabled anonymous posting via the checkbox, presumably because their post count fell too low without the trollbags.