Comment Suicide or Accident? (Score 1) 220
TFS called the death a suicide and, in the next sentence, an accident. If it was a suicide then it was deliberate, intentional, and not an accident.
Comment Gives Microsoft Access to All Your Mail (Score 3, Informative) 47
I've never used the Mac version but I know that the iOS version doesn't read mail directly. It passes your login credentials to Microsoft and they read the mail on your behalf and supply it to the Outlook client.
In other words, if you use Outlook then Microsoft has all your email.
Comment Model M (Score 1) 363
IBM Model M; The One True keyboard. Though I don't know why you don't already know this.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
If you prefer USB, the design was bought by Unicomp and they make new USB keyboards based on the same design: https://www.pckeyboard.com/
Comment Slashdot? (Score 0) 39
Hm. Your
Submission + - Prenda Allums are Suing People Again (startribune.com)
Hokan writes: Paul Hansmeier and John Steele, formerly of Prenda, are suing again. Each have started nonprofits, in Minnesota and Illinois, claiming to defend disabled people and are suing small businesses for ADA violations.
Comment U of MN did this in the '70s (Score 1) 259
When I started at the University of Minnesota in the late '70s I was permitted to choose between a "natural language" or an "artificial language", that is, a programming language. That's not currently an option at the University and I don't know when it changed.
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