When did California start requiring smog checks on diesels?

That's discretionary spending though. Necessities like housing and utilities will double since each person needs their own. Ask any divorced person how their financial life changed after the divorce.

They'll probably just copy the way Google started doing it years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How is this legal? Tricking people into paying for accounts by convincing them that someone is trying to message them would be fraud, wouldn't it?

They need to fix that, it's a great app otherwise.

One of the servers was on wheels. Wheels

They did, but it got mixed in with the stories and no one saw it before it scrolled off the front page.

It's sad how far Slashdot has fallen.

Yeah, those are legitimate concerns with a web app. But pretending that developing a standalone app doesn't have its own set of equally painful problems is ridiculous.

With a standalone app, you've got to worry about things like .Net versions, DLL hell, installation packages, keeping users up to date, windows versions, etc... Yes, modern languages will typically take care of most of this for you, but to pretend like they don't exist is just being naive.

Except with a felony conviction he'll automatically lose rights for life, and will have a much harder time getting a decent job once he's out of school.

Back in Windows 3.1, you could use qbasic to write a file with a non-standard filename, which would exceed the 8.3 format.

8th grader me thought it was the height of comedy to write files with names like "[Teacher name] is dumb" to the desktop.

Any attempt to remove or rename the file using the command line or UI would cause Windows to crap all over itself and crash.

Why would they partner with someone who's already tried and failed in this industry, to do something that they've already been doing successfully for 30 years?

Yes, this is monumentally stupid on their part. But I'll be shocked if there's any real consequences for it. The other manufacturers are all watching to see how much backlash there is, and how quickly people forget and move on to see if this is something that they'll want to do in the future as well. Consumers won't care about this, and business will carry on as usual soon enough.

Is there an extension that blocks these "We'd like your feedback" messages that seem to be popping up on every single site lately? Or a way to block them easily with AdBlock?

What could possibly go wrong?