Which makes me fear for civilization. Think of all the knowledge that will be lost when the 'digital' media (tapes, CDs, magnetic HDDs) is either degraded or the tech is so old we can no longer access it with current formats or machines. I know there is some 'archival' quality CDs, but they are few and far between. Few digital records are on 'archive' quality media.

WTF? Nobody needs this in a text editor.

Anyone want a 4 digit UID? Make me an offer. :)

At some point, the cost trade off has to be considered. We can save lots of lives and make traffic accidents nil if we make car unaffordable. But how does this affect poor people's ability to get to work or go on with their lives. For the lefties out there, stop focusing on Trump and corporations and consider the negative impact on marginalized communities if cars are unaffordable to buy, operate, and maintain.

Remember when the "information economy" crowd told the laid-off factory workers to "learn to code". Ha ha. Now it's their turn to "learn to code". Turns out karma is a bitch.

So this is where the Duke Nuke'em Forever team went.....

If your calculator has a dedicated '=' key its just a toy.

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Doch! Grundapfel!

Finger.

So instead of a gradual rise that coastal dwellers can manage and adapt to over years, they are going to risk a catastrophic instant failure with massive sudden flooding?

Resolving ambiguities in the law is what judges are for. The existing system is all about writing vague laws and then appointing "agency experts" to fill in the blanks without having to bother with that whole annoying democracy thing to change the law. Some people like it that way though, the submitter seems pretty upset at the idea of lawmaking involving things like voting or separation of powers.

NBCUniversal should cut them some slack and work out a payment deal or forebear for awhile. If they force Redbox into bankruptcy, they would probably get pennies on the dollar in a bankruptcy settlement and the revenue stream would be permanently gone. This is the classic golden goose case.

It is conceivable that one day every Bitcoin user will be locked out of their wallet because of lost passwords. The number of coins is finite after all. Then what?

Any two parties? Really? You mean any two parties with the technology they need and who buy in to the idea of Bitcoin. US greenbacks are still going to get me out more situations worldwide than an entry in a public ledger.

Are people still holding onto this crap? There were two good movies 40 years ago. Not great; good. Every last ounce of joy has been wrung out of them. Please let it die. For the sake of our landfills bursting with plastic Star Wars crap at the least.