She quit after Lavabit e-mail was shut down in 2013, on the grounds that without a private, anonymous e-mail service, it wouldn't be possible to keep doing Groklaw. Can you link to the "live" interview she did, or where a journalist claimed to have confirmed her identity, or a cite a source where she said that was part of the reason for quitting? Because I remember following the whole thing, and the identity of the PJ persona was cloudy to the end.

The interviews linked are all "responds to prepared questions via e-mail" type affairs. That could easily have been fielded by a team behind the name. I mean, it's possible PJ was just a very privacy-conscious person. But there's still nothing linking the PJ name or alias to an individual.

Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.

Samsung Pay doesn't involve Samsung acting as a bank. They only act as an intermediary for storing "virtual payment cards" in the security module on your phone. There's some standard interface between Samsung's servers and the financial institutions to facilitate adding cards and sending transaction notifications to the phones. I though Apple Pay could work the same way. It wouldn't surprise me if Google Wallet requires the payment to actually go through them, since they want to put their noses in everything.

It happens on any platform where you download and install Firefox from Mozilla (including the portable installation for Linux). The Firefox packages from the Linux distros themselves hack this out, as well as changing a few other behaviours.

Over 99% of Amazon's products would be removed if your filtered out one country of origin.

I was just pointing out that fluffernutter's reasoning was flawed. Steam is not competing with the used market when it comes to Civ V, as it was always tied to Steam and it was never possible to sell used copies.

You could never get Civ V used. It was always tied to Steam. The boxed copy came with a code to activate it on Steam, and it wouldn't run until you signed in to Steam. The massive discounts on old Civ games usually happen when they release a new Civ game or expansion pack. They put all the old ones on special to try and generate interest in the new one.

Maybe not so much in the US, but often security guards are also a customer service position, providing directions, answering questions, etc.

Reverse takeovers aren't necessarily big company/small company. It's usually when you have one company flush with cash but with concerns about viability buying a company that has liquidity issues (i.e. risk of bankruptcy) but a viable business model, then the company that was purchased taking over the new company. The TPG/Soul Telecom reverse takeover is a pretty good example of a successful reverse takeover. The Atari/JTS reverse takeover is a great example of a disastrous one.

Because they have a representative set of cars for test drives that they then sell at a discount as "ex demo" vehicles. That way, the car you actually get is freshly delivered isn't one that a bunch of other people have already test driven.

So you went straight from, âWould you like to come visit and give us a chance to show you what America is actually like," to, "take the hint." Which is it supposed to be? You're not really as bad as the stories we hear and people should visit, or you really are and it's a hint that you don't want visitors?

I already have. It isn't silly prejudice. You really do your best to make visitors feel unwelcome on arrival.

I read that at least some of the attacks involved attacking wireless communication. You could avoid that by just wiring your SCADA system.

And that is the entire problem with all the LLVM based systems.

So you always use GCC rather than clang?