The Model II was *well* more than that.

Probably they had a Model I Level 2.

> Everything is transcoded to AC3.

It's okay to admit when you're wrong...

What legal grounds? They can define "household" however they want.

Internet lawyers are the worst lawyers...

You misread their "any", which I'm sure meant "any arbitrary" vs. "any one". I.e. you can't prove whether or not any arbitrary program will halt, but you can prove that some will or not.

OTOH, my experience on such highways-turned-into-city-streets is that the cops are pretty likely to be sitting right at that location, so doing a rapid deceleration is a pretty good idea...

Is the waitress or bartender who only works shifts on Friday and Sat nights a contractor then as well?

If they can choose whether or not they want to come in on those nights, and can leave whenever they want, and only serve those customers that they want, and get paid based on how many drinks they serve, then, yes, I would say that they are.

Linux has always seemed to make worse decisions about memory than almost any other OS.

Even back in the '90s. I had both FreeBSD and Linux, with some small number of megabytes of memory.

Under Linux, if I would copy a CD ISO from one disk to another, the system would become almost unusable while doing the copy, as the system seemed to think it was more important to cache whatever portions of that 600MB file that it could fit, than it was to keep executables in memory. Under FreeBSD, I couldn't even notice that the copy was occurring.

That type of situation persists to this day. Seems to be a typical throughput vs. latency decision.

Wow, even Apple BASIC was licensed from MS too. I never knew that! :/

The story I'd heard was that, in the mid 80s, the Apple II was still selling decently well when its BASIC license was about to expire. So, Microsoft said, "hey Apple, about this whole Windows Look and Feel lawsuit" ... which quickly went away...

The most annoying part is they ALL come with heated seats and they charge you $2500 to flip a bit in the cars configuration file to enable them.

I know that most of the Tesla options are difficult or impossible to unlock without paying.

However, it seems somewhat likely that one could just rewire the heated seats separately...

For both my kids we needed help, and the 2nd one was 2 cycles of IVF and 8 embryo transfers. I wouldn't wish that experience on my worst enemy.

There is absolutely no shortage of people on this earth, and so no reason to go through such measures to add another. Even worse that you seem to feel heroic for having done so...

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

No, I think that he got it right...

In System 6, the Multifinder ran multiple full-screen applications, and let you switch between them more or less at will until the Multifinder crashed, which it did all the goddamned time. In System 7, all the applications shared a common backdrop, with the menu bar changing to reflect the application currently brought to the foreground, and the Finder still crashed all the goddamned time.

You're thinking of Switcher, which was only available for a short time. Multifinder always allowed windows to be intermixed. For the fun of it, I actually run all of this (System6/Multifinder) in an emulator a few weeks ago.

In that case, I side with the cops, as unpopular as that may be.

Actually, it seems that the analogy would be the cops grabbing everyone's keys in the office, and then using the keys to go snoop through their homes. I don't believe that such a warrant would be granted or, if granted, would be constitutional, just like I don't think that this was constitutional, simply because of the broadness...

I was in Italy a few years ago, in a town in the south part of the main land, and helped a friend set up their national-telecom-provided Wifi router (which was surprisingly not difficult, even with not knowing the language, and no English-language option).

What was surprising was that there was not only no option to set the access point open, there wasn't even a way of specifying a passphrase -- only a cryptic one chosen by the router could be used. Which explained why I never saw an open access point the entire time that I was in the country...

The glib answer to "why" is simply "because nobody has passed an amendment to remove the legal mandate from the Constitution"...