What word doesn't have any of those letters? The only vowel left is "y"
A quick search through an online dictionary found no 5 letter words that didn't have one of these.

No. Before this change the button in question was HARDCODED to shuffle. And there was no way to change it to simply listen to an album in order.
People have been asking for the change for years, more like screw Spotify for forcing an unwanted "feature"

Space Merchants is by Pohl and Kornbluth. But otherwise, it is a good book that really should be better known.

The "someone" who thought it would be hilarious was Ms Betty Bowers.
This is not a real person. Betty is a character "America's Best Christian" on youtube. She uses this position to satirize the modern right, particularly by pointing out hypocrisy. I don't think that she really intended anyone to film such a sketch, she was just mocking which is what she does.

https://www.youtube.com/channe...

The pianist Rousseau got a copyright strike recently for playing a piece of Schubert transposed by Liszt. The company which supposedly owned this copyright claims that YouTube just triggered it automatically. The pianist tried to resubmit and a different copyright claim was made. This time by a company that was willing to allow the video to play, but still claiming all the royalties. To a piece written over 150 years ago.

SheetMusicBoss had their entire channel demonetized for "repetitious content" even though it contains mostly original recordings. Youtube was at least willing to admit a mistake and restore them, but they had a decent following at the start. Someone just starting out would be screwed. All of the educational music channels I follow including 12tone, SignalsMusicStudio, AdamNeely, RickBeato have had to work around the limitations by not featuring certain artists, using covers, and simply not saying certain names.

*Spoiler alert* That is essentially the conclusion of Olaf Stapledon's book Star Maker.

>The creatures would eventually have mapped it and marveled at the mysterious pattern.

Sounds like you need to read Permutation City by Greg Egan. Some researchers build (well, sort of...) a really complex cellular automation and inject (well, sort of...) themselves into it. When life arises in the sim, they try to convince the new life forms that they created the universe. It doesn't go well.

Yeah, until you realize that the 60F sunny days we had all January mean that we're really, truly, screwed come this summer when we run out of water.

In a book on the life of Shostakovich, there was an anecdote about Stalin giving a speech at a farm collective. After he finished, there was a thunderous applause that continued on and on for over half an hour. No one wanted to be known as the first one to stop clapping.

Not that anybody cares, but I will retract that last comment. I was using the iPhone with MOG's player, which did what I needed. Trying to use the standard (crap) Music player.... well... it sucks. The problem isn't bluetooth, the phone has the protocol and it seems to work fine. It's the player itself that doesn't have much of any functionality.

I happen to have bought a new VW myself, my phone connects via bluetooth for phone use, for media the same connector that is charging my phone also plays music. Works perfectly, full featured. I fail to see what functionality I am missing with the iPhone. I don't consider plugging it in to be a downside.

Go to Big Fish if you think that Myst-type games are dead.

Try the demos for anything in the Dream Chronicles, Azada, Drawn, or Awakening series and tell me that isn't Myst influenced. Pretty rendered graphics, weird scenes with devices you need to figure out, it's all there. Sure, the actual find-the-object parts are new and there's WAY too many implementations of Simon and the Towers of Hanoi, but the basics of exploration and solving puzzles remains. Also, in what sense was Myst open-ended? Sure, you could freely walk between scenes, but it was still pretty much on rails.

I think it's more an issue of these games not being marketed to the "real gamer" market so they are invisible to people in that scene. Which makes sense, Myst wasn't targeted at that segment either. But there are lots and lots of them if you actually try looking. Big Fish claims that 2 billion games have been downloaded, so it's lot exactly a small market either. (Although, to be fair, I couldn't find much on conversion rates)

In Oregon and New Jersey is it illegal to pump your own gas.
Supposedly for safety reason, but... seriously.

Oregon pump law

The question is set up with a large number of criteria about what is and is not acceptable as an answer. It sounds a lot like one of those "prove me wrong" contests where a million dollars if offered, but the requirements are so strict (such as proving a negative or evading circular reasoning) that no one can answer. After which the questioner claims victory. By setting it up as a "prove me wrong", it makes a contest instead of a discussion.

For example, there's the dismissal of the overzealous prosecutor, " if they can convict you of murder, then you're already screwed anyway, regardless of whether they also convict you of lying about being innocent". This focuses on the innocent, but guilty people do still have rights. There's also times when an innocent person is found guilty anyway. In this case, every single trial can ask if you did it. This forces to person to say YES or risk getting charged with TWO crimes, guilty or not. Possibly resulting in another trial with all the cost that involves.

It's kind of like if I were to rob you, then come back an rob you again. Would you argue that the second one didn't matter? Being convicted twice is worse than once, it could happen in every single trial with a guilty verdict. That makes it a worse outcome that we currently have.

The key line: "On a wiped iPhone 3G"

Starting with the iPhone3GS, iOS encrypts everything with a random AES256 key. When you say to wipe the device, it erases that key rendering everything else unusable. This is mentioned in the article, but downplayed. It's been a long time since you could even buy an iPhone 3G, so it seems alarmist to bring it up now.

http://blog.itsecurityexpert.co.uk/2011/10/securely-wiping-your-personal-data-from.html