If this guy's problems are all related to the thing being too small, scale it to 125% or 150% or whatever is needed to make it work.

It's a virtual object so it doesn't have a real world dimension so he can set any base unit size he wants and still get an "authentic" table.

Actually, where did he get the size he's working with anyway? Measured it against a background object or something?

My point is there shouldn't be any "likely" or "probably" involved here.

The announcement should clearly state what the threat vector was.

Seems irresponsible to me.

Shouldn't the first order of business be to announce what extension was compromised so others can avoid it?

Doesn't the use of social media involve reading?

Or am I misunderstanding what social media is in this context?

The point, which you seem to have missed, is that there's no evidence that this was a targeted theft of extremely valuable intellectual property, rather than a simple theft of luggage, which probably happens several hundred times every day at airports throughout the country.

The relevant question could be posed this way:

If I steal a random box that I see on the street, should I be sentenced more harshly if the box contains the Hope Diamond versus a package of bubble gum?

Is there any evidence that this chap knew what was in the suitcases?

It may have been a simple opportunistic theft by someone hoping to find something of value in random luggage. And when he discovered that he hadn't boosted a laptop or some other easily-fenced item, the stuff may have simply been dumped in a nearby alley or dumpster.

Is there any evidence either way?

Sadly, I have forgotten how to use a slide rule, though my old slipstick is still sitting at the back of the bookshelf near my computer. Probably covered with dust, though.

I do still use my abacus occasionally, but not "as designed". It's handy as all get-out for binary arithmetic and tracking bit flipping. Which isn't what an abacus is for, of course, but that's what I use it for.

The summary says that this thing is supposed to be geothermal powered.

So they just have the cart before the horse here. They need to set up the geothermal power plant first, then build the datacenter after the power plant is operational.

And everybody will be happy.

Concrete requires approximately 180 liters of water to make 1 cubic meter of concrete.

So that amount of water would make about 6.5 million cubic meters of concrete.

Which seems like a helluvalot of concrete....

"I asked whether I could publish the private correspondence in full for transparency. That request was refused."

If you send me an unsolicited letter then that letter becomes my property.

I don't see what grounds you can order me not to publish it. Or burn it. Or use it as a signal flag on my yacht.

Something is "off the record" or "confidential" only if both parties agree to that beforehand.

Numerous teenagers look at the analog clock on the wall in my business and then ask me what time it is.

Your computer creates a copy of the article to show on your screen when you load the article.

I'm sure that the average Mac user who just wants to do pointy-pointy-clicky-clicky is going to go to the command line and start typing stuff to install a program that he expects to just show up on his screen.

The mere fact that it doesn't just show up that way tends to delegitimize it in his eyes, plus the fact that even the command "brew" (as in "homebrew" or "witches brew, perhaps?) would add a dash of skepticism.

So yes, it's likely possible to install a program on your Mac without going through the Apple ecosystem. You say it is, I'll take your word for it.

But it's a hurdle that many users won't cross, due to a lack of knowledge or a lack of confidence, neither of which is exactly their fault since Macs are sold and advertised as a kind of an appliance rather than a general purpose computer.

"Best answer here would have been Don Ho doing a Mac port of Notepad++ himself. I mean, why not?"

There could be a number of reasons.

Two examples are:

1. He may not be interested in Mac programming and/or supporting Apple's closed ecosystem.

2. He may not be prepared to purchase a Mac and pay Apple their ongoing fees for development and distribution of Mac applications.

I'm sure you can think of others.

Compute magazine used to print program listings (as did a lot of the old computer magazines) and they had a program called MLX for entering Commodore 64 programs.

You entered the numbers from the magazine line by line and the last number on each line was a checksum for that line.

It worked really well. I remember typing in pages and pages of numbers and eventually ending up with the Speedscript word processor.