Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

So they're violating Apple's MagSafe patent?

Does it have a Thunderbolt 5 port?

Pretty sure whatever he died from came from bats. Or hamsters

1. 'She', not 'he', AIUI. I can assure you from personal experience that anatomically Russians are indistinguishable in all important respects from other humans.
2. Or more likely marnosets. The commonest vector for plague in this region is the mamoset. I'm not even sure hamsters are found within several thousands km of this area.
3. The disease has a long history in this area. A recent article : "Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago" https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586... Nature Vol654 697, 18 June 2026
     "Here we describe early plague strains that are associated with two phases of outbreaks among mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia, beginning from about 5,500 years ago. These outbreaks occur across four hunter-gatherer cemeteries, with a 39% detection rate for plague infection. By reconstructing kinship pedigrees, we show that small familial groups were affected, consistent with human-to-human spread of disease, and that the first outbreak occurred within a single generation. The infections appear to have resulted in acute mortality, especially among children (aged 8 to 11 years)."

We're all the descendents of the people who for whatever genetic reason survived the plagues in the past and thats why plaque hasn't reoccured as an epidemic since the middle ages.

Except - that was our (mostly) ancestors acquiring a degree of immunity to a strain of the bacterium circulating 250 and more years ago.

It's fairly unlikely that current wild-type strains are the same strain.

Bacteria do evolve in the wild, you know. (Everything evolves in the wild.)

American exam or 100 year old German exam?

Because Oracle can DEFINITELY be trusted!

Disclaimer: I used to work for Oracle, and my boss, Ken Ross, pulled down his $40K quarterly bonus by simply billing customers for work that was never done.

They get real upset when your phone lens is sticking out of your breast pocket in strip clubs. I don't know why... (Honestly, I wasn't recording, I just didn't feel like sitting on my phone.)

Audio recording without consent is already illegal under the wiretap laws in most states. The weird thing is that video recording without consent isn't!

I just wish that somebody, somewhere, would masturbate to pictures of me... sigh.

And smart glasses just make an already punchable face 100 times more punchable!

The difference is that when someone points a cellphone lens at you, you know they are recording you, and that the best response is to silently turn around and walk away. Surreptitious recording is done without consent or the victim's knowledge. That being said, it might be a good idea to record consent before sex, and for girls at frat parties to wear smart glasses to prove there was no consent.

Building your resume to go work at the thought crimes division, huh?

Wait... the license plate provided by the state couldn't survive being outside in the sun, and that's YOUR fault???

The cop(s) that LIED in the arrest report and said her car had damage matching the damage that would have been caused by the hit-and-run should be in jail!

And I'm sure it was VERY STRONGLY WORDED too!