So... it's compiled... like literally every other program every made?

What exactly makes compiled code special? EXEs are compiled code. The term "run-only" is stupid. You have to be able to read the thing to run it, and the computer can read bytes just fine, so... where's the problem?

"Tragedy of the commons".

Building a walled garden can be bad, but allowing free and unfettered access to an open field for everybody's use can too.

Hey now, don't be raging on the white hat for doing white hat things. Not all of us have the meme darkness in our souls.

Had to Google to find out that they actually meant a trolley system at street level.

For everybody in the US: "tram" = trolleys on rails in the street. Just so you know.

Why are you touching all those paper towels? Grab one, throw in the cart, get on with your damn day.

Most people do not take that kind of time to comparison shop. If they can just deliver me the damn towels, then that's fine, I do not have brand loyalty toward most household products, nor do I need to molest my items in order to determine that it's a paper towel.

As in, have they figured out how to make their burger taste like a burger? Or the fish taste like a fish?

Because the burger is straight garbage. I don't understand the hype here, those things do not taste like real meat in the slightest. Texture isn't bad, but the flavor is just wrong.

Actually, as soon as we were notified of the issue, the plugin was closed and hidden on a temporary basis until we had time to evaluate the problem. Once we had done so, I personally created a new version of the plugin, without the malicious code, and pushed it to the repository in order to get the update out to the affected users. The existing committers were all removed, leaving the plugin entirely in the hands of the plugin team. The latest version is now safe and will not be otherwise until we determine the full details of what happened here.

Full disclosure is great, but some advance notice longer than a day or so helps a lot. We will always protect our users to the best of our ability, but sometimes, we get blind sided. It happens. Nobody posts about the dozens of other times we fix things before they get exploited. Not judging, just saying.

Patents on digitizer technology. It wasn't until tablets took off enough that other companies were willing to challenge the market leader.

Thus the cost of the handwriting tech was prohibitively expensive.

"or we'll release Half Life 3 as AMD only and spam AMD all over Steam"

That exactly.

We have sentience now. Human science will quickly eclipse any and all forms of random evolution.

It's disconcerting to see people treat evolution as if it's some sort of holy imperative decreed by Gaea.

Even the first line of the summary says "offer classes". Nobody is being forced.

I'm not sure I agree that it was sensible. As you point out it didn't solve anything. It seems like yet another example of RMS letting fanaticism run wild. He had the foresight to see the problem but he alienated everyone on the issue.

Finding a good open source alternative to Tivo is easy now thanks to cheap ass hardware. I suspect the same will happen with cell phones.

What nonsense. Someone somewhere is designing a leafblower right now and learned something that leads to cheaper access to space. Some scientist studying bug locomotion learned something that leads to cheaper access to space.

That is how progress works. Technological "breakthroughs" are always a culmination of extremely small leaps.

I live in KC and it's a real pita to find a place with google fiber. Google will only wire up an entire complex at once and they charge the owners a lot of money for it.

This must be a euro thing. It doesn't make any sense in the US. In the US all we care about is "how often do I have to fill this damn tank".