Let's lower our already uncompetitive (compared to our neighbors south) salaries further, while generating ill will with our closest allies and trading partners in this time of economic unrest.

/. editors have been posting insulting disclaimers like this for over a decade now. Heck I've seen one that was reminding us the a CPU is at the core of a computer.

I remember before routers were universal, it was common to hook up your Windows 2K/XP computer straight to the modem (or at least for the technician to do that). After a few seconds, you'd start receiving these annoying spam messages courtesy of the on-by-default Messaging Service or whatever it was called (just a msg box basically). And of course, before they patched the DCOM RPC exploit you'd get infected in the same amount of time too. Ah the memories. I wonder exactly what would happen if you connected a vanilla Windows XP to the internet without NAT/firewall in 2023. Probably not as bad as back in the days, those spam bots have long since ceased operating.

I print about 2-3 pages every 6 months with my early 2000s B/W samsung laser printer I bought at an auction for $20. Almost all of them Amazon return labels. I think I've had it for 6 years now and I haven't changed the ink yet. I may not be the target demographic but if my case is anything close to typical, I don't think they should be fucking over customers if they want to sell new printers in 2023.

I remember thinking this about playing at 1024x768 vs 800x600. There's much room for improvement between 1080p and retina display.

So is /. now supposed to be the place where stories end up which were posted on Reddit some days prior with moderate success?

I wonder how many experts in the field sounding the alarms it's going to take before we stop crying conspiracy theory or private business/government interests, and actually acknowledge they may, just may, have some valid concerns.

Google is trying to bait you into being a guinea pig for yet another one of their experiments which is almost guaranteed to become unsupported and discontinued in 2 years if it doesn't become a smashing success and/or cash cow.

I live in Quebec, and it is much colder than where you live. First, it never gets down to around -40 (C or F), much less "on a regular basis". Second, almost everybody in my neighborhood has a heat pump, and they work very well down to -25C (-13F). Beyond that (extremely rare cases), we supplement with electric heating. How you can be modded +4 informative is beyond me.

NGL at this point I thought they were talking about the British TV series

Who would have thought a Google side-project for redundant software without a clear problem to solve would find its way to the dumpster.

I immediately thought of the Canopy of the F-22 and other US jets that use gold in the canopy. It seems that in that case it has nothing to do with temperature control but rather to scatter radar pulses. Oh well.

I see what you did there

For a sec I thought these satellites would operate from the Kuiper Belt.

Sounds good