Guess I will need to re-install Lync, so we can have a communication channel for people to use. I don't get it. Why would you spam a chat application instead of just using a message bus architecture like they did in the 1990s or 2000s?

Like that old Hollywood bit "My agent will call your agent, and they will do lunch."

Exactly, Make it the same thickness as on of the iphone 12 - 14, and use that extra space for a battery. So I can charge the phone once a week like my old Nokia 3660 from 2001.

Not only that, he wants the victims to pay for it.

At least it is standard equipment, so you get it with whatever you buy. The system is even on the base model. Seriously, I think every new car will go this way, so soon it will be place your order with the dealership, place your order with Crutchfield for a replacement Infotainment system.

Even the current systems suck so bad (with intermittent problems), I have been tempted to put in a bluetooth reciever, a small amplifier, and a phone mount in the space and do it all with my phone. At least my car is old enough to have physical controls for the AC, so it is a possibility.

The article says that the community is stirring around AdBlock for Jeeps. This will take off for a while until the lawyers fire up the DMCA machine, like John Deere.

I wonder how the CarPC projects are coming along.

They need to work on their device naming though. If I would have created it I would have called it a "Thin Client".

Exactly this, I am on the iphone phone because it came out first. After the first 4 years (2 x 2 year contracts). I no longer get a new phone every time. If the phone breaks, or has problems like you described, I go to the cell phone store for my carrier and say "Give me the cheapest iphone you have in stock right now." I then walk out of the store, go to Five Below for a screen protector, and a TPU rubber case. Chop Chop Boom. On to the next errand.

It has happened before, it will happen again.

Remember the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative of 2002. 22 years ago in January, Bill Gates sends an email saying

"ensuring .NET is a platform for Trustworthy Computing is more important than any other part of our work. If we don't do this, people simply won't be willing -- or able -- to take advantage of all the other great work we do. Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing. We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing."

This was after the CodeRed and Nimbda worms caused everyone to stop and think about IIS and .Net as the way forward. We all know what Balmer thinks about developers. And if Developers use other servers and frameworks, how can MS sell their wares. This initiative made it until 2014.

Seems like every-time the industry is about to say "This is trash, I'm out!", they launch some big PR campaign like this to placate the C-levels.

I guess they really think we are suckers, so that comes out to 56 cents per hour.

Try to find a decent 4 door sedan that doesn't cost as much as a compact SUV. Often the price is the same. Since there are so many SUVs on the road, it becomes a visibility issue. If you are the only one at the traffic light in a sedan or hatchback, good luck seeing around the SUVs to turn left.

I love a full size sedan, especially for longer trips. I like a comfortable quiet ride. But when the choice is a Camry vs a Rav4, for the same price, you have to go Rav4. If for the resale value only.

A quality alarm clock can be had for less than $30. A basic for less than $10.

This happens so often, I am surprised it still makes national news.

They won't be satisfied until we are all using 150 Key keyboards that look like the side of a nascar race car. I would like to thank Monster Energy Drinks for sponsoring the vowels in this post.

I love posts about COBOL.
File it under the "Everything Old is New Again" heading.

I also love it when/if/I wish they post:
The best Linux Distro for your G5 Mac
Writing an emulator to run Dec Pathworks on Raspberry Pi.
Rewriting Doom on a Vectrex system.
Rebuilding a Toshiba Libretto into a portable IBM 3227 Terminal.
Macquariums,
Running Turbo Pascal on an ESP32.
AI powered bumper stickers.
Upgrade your TRS-80 from Cassette to Iomega Zip Drives.
Building a cartridge based gaming system on French Minitel.
Using RC construction toys to excavate his basement for 14 years.
That guy playing the same Civilization 2 game for over a decade.

The more ridiculous the combo, the more I love it.

Nostalgia is a part of the Nerdery too.

Just move some of the money they made on the 737 MAX program on over to the Air Force 1 program. All the money they saved on regulatory approval should cover the loss.

Seems like a simple accounting fix.

Peter Gibbons: "And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now."

Mac for home stuff, Steam OS for games.

Windows is for work, Send it to the Internet and give it a hashbrown.