But, at least if you went to CNET and searched IT directly, you'd find the results. Their current approach is it's gone everywhere, forever (unless archive.org saves you).

You would think that by adding a robots.txt and excluding archival content, CNET could still "sends a signal to Google that says CNET is fresh, relevant and worthy of being placed higher than our competitors in search results," ( I know that's already a stretch) while retaining the content, not breaking old links and so on.

It's not like "old stuff" doesn't have value and isn't worth keeping around, right ?

Where we watch YOU in your cages!

I'd be reasonably certain that the "confidential information" consists of a machine ID and an error code. Perhaps it also transmitted usage data, but quite obviously the franchisee and owner of the actual machine knows that, so it's not confidential.

If you want to get an idea of how pathetic these machines are, 'there's an app for that" (website actually). Visit https://mcbroken.com/ .

9.25% broken nationwide and almost 25% broken in New York City!

I'm lovin' it!

As you'll note, I figured that out AFTER posting. But who's fault is it; mine for not guessing what is the expected format, the developer's for not being flexibly capable of formatting based on input, the UX guy for not having a preview or help button or the Business guy for producing better requirements?

Personally, I think it well illustrates how it's almost never the developer's fault.

Oops ..
Guessed wrong on the input format.

(If this is not formatted properly it's because some programmer did not make it obvious whether am typing in text, html or markdown, or how to see or change it so sorry ) t's a false assumption that it's the programmers that make the mistakes. I'd suggest most "mistakes" are in fact a result of undefined (or unafthomable) requirements. It's almost impossible to define "complete requirements" for most real world scenarios". Do you think that some 80â(TM)s programmer on a mainframe, which worked on 7-bit character set, ever imagined some idiot would name his kid "X Ã A-12 Musk", or that their company would hire 56 people from South Asia with "No Last Name", or a name composed of 71 characters or a name consisting or a single letter? And that's just requirements to process "a name". No, but it's always "the programmer's fault" and it's always "a bug". Where's the outrage over similar problems with paper forms? You know, where they have those little boxes dividerd for the letters, with 8 spaces each for first name and City, and 12 for last name. What if where you live does not have an actual street address? Both ~OneHundredAndTen and EditorDavid should seriously re-evaluate the the assumptions they made in the framing of the question and poating the article. It's just designed to elicit flame wars, not solutions. Finally, who decided 5 lines of input here "is enough"?

The Patriot missiles "failed" because the SCUDs were breaking up in flight and RTN's computer could not figure out which portion was "the target". "The problem" was addressed in the next generation.

Sounds like it should be promoted to management!

My bad, I guess. There were line breaks (blank lines, not dbl LF) when I pasted it in. Seems OK in Preview. Once posted, can't seem to edit. Should have deleted and retried ?

Oh, and that is only the first few things that come to mind, not even scratching the surface.

Bezos Fallcy #1: "This planet is so small, if we want to keep growing as a civilization .." How does he expect civilization to grow? Do families need to have 5, 7, 15 or 20 children? No other large mammal on this planet has families of that size. For a few centuries, large families were a reality as they needed the labor power to survive, yet most children died before adulthood and most adults died into their 40-50s. Now, medicine, health care and science have extended survival and longevity. We can continue to "grow", as in thrive and progress intellectually and socially without reproducing like rabbits. Bezoa Fallcy #2: "Using energy as a civilization, most of that needs to be done off-planet". There is absolutely no shortage of energy on this planet. There's simply a shortage of investment in non-fossil fuel, clean technologies and a serious short-term eziatential, ecological crunch. In real time, solar and wind are as cheap as extractive fuels. In the longer term, there's an infinite supply of geo-thermal and tidal power, and in the long term, fusion is the Holy Grail and a solution for fissoon waste will be delivered. What is lacking is a capacity to store and distribute that on demand over wide distances, so there's local overcapacity everywhere. Further, if we stopped wasting energy overproducing goods to "grow the economy", inflated by artificial demand, there'd be so much surplus, from clothing to food to tech. But that threatens Amazon's raison d' etre. Bezos Fallacy #3: "They may visit Earth the way you visit Yellowstone National Park" Here's the thing .. if you visit Yellowstone, you pack yourvtrash back out! If you camp in the woods, you don't pee or crap in your water supply or next to your tent. Yet, we are surrounded by industries who not only do that with impunity, the generally do it legally and for free! Then, the expect otjers to deal woth the problem. So do you! Just toss out that empty pop can that had the deposit 'cos it's only 5/10/25 cents and someone else will pick it up. Ya, well no one is picking up your old clothes, old cars or old tech. Have you read the stories on Amazon's perfectly returns that just go straight to landfills or bur ed ccos it's to much hassle to resell? North American indigenous cultures have lived sustainably and in harmony with nature for millennia. Asian cultures have thrived for a millennia. Bezos hasn't looked beyond the the Western Industrial revolution and history of colonization (driven by consumption of resources). Even his vision of factories in NEO is irrational. Where do all the resources come from? Where do the goods go? And the waste? Russia blew up a small satellite amd tjreatens the ISS. That's a couple tons. Haul over a 40 km asteroid to crush it and extract a bit of iron or precious metal, what do you do with the waste? How big a fleet to harvest resources and move things around? That's a lot of space truck drivers! And let's get real about something .. has Bezos or Musk done any math for how long it would take to have thriving colonies in space or on Mars? Start small, say a colony of 10,000. Is that big enough to be self sustaining? Even the most optimistic guess is 50-100 years, or 1-2x the time we've been "in space", , if you can call a few people at a time, supported by 100,000s directly and millions indirectly on Earth. Imagine what could be achieved for the world's problems ON EARTH if trillions of dollars amd millions of people were thrown at the problems. Within a generation, most of the existential issues will have been addressed and then there'd be no reason to leave the planet.

Nations protect their citizens, politicians protect their constituents, at least the ones who believe will continue to vote for them. Having a well. protected local population will not eliminate the migration and evolution of the virus. That's how more deadly variants originating in Brazil, South Africa, India and UK (and future ones) ended up "here" despite border restrictions. Having a global population at 70% single dose vaccinated is better than having 70% of the shots concentrated in handful of nations; it's global pandemic. Gov'ts invested (guaranteed payments) billions to the drug co's. Canada pre-bought 11-13x the required dosages per pop, UK 7x, US 5.5x. The also invested billions indirectly in prior mRNA work directly and via universities. The drug co's are preventing Int'l redistribution w/o their OK. As major investors, gov'ts should have got better terms globally. In South America, Pfizer tried to impose contracts contrary to Nat'l laws, or claim national assets in lieu of money, delaying distribution. Others got "exclusive" arrangements then failed to deliver in time. These same co's also hold patents on drugs that cure common 3rd world killers but refuse to release or manufacture because there's no money it for them. Big pharmacy can still profit in a pandemic, but you gotta save the patient too!

This is getting quite ridiculous and extremely selfish by a handful of wealthy nations. Less than 50% of the global population has received just a single dose deapite widespread demand. Only 3.1% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose. As long as there remains a large population of unvaccinated people, the virus will continue to mutate and be a threat to all, regardless of how many boosters are provided. Wealthy nations must do all they can to offer vaccine doses to all nations and people who want and need tbeir first and second doses before offering widespread 3rd / 4th doses. That will do far more to eliminate the overall risk to everyone, those who refuse an initial dose (at this point, not gonna convince refuseniks, so stop trying) and those wanting hyper-protection.

My buddy has a 1908 house that had a little alcove in the hallway. He found a real vintage phone, (gen zero) - no dialer; speaker cup on the box and cup on the of the wire, installed it and tied it into the house line. Ringer, talk, listen, hang up, all worked. Beauty and a real conversation piece.