Asbestos is dangerous to your lungs because the individual fibers are long and sharp and stabby and your mucus lining cannot clear them. These are little metallic beads; I expect your lungs would clear them just like any other similar sized particle of dust or plastic.

But you go live in your protective bubble so you're safe from them. I don't mind.

Ah.. now it makes sense.

Announcing my newest spray-on robotic window cleaner, Robo-Dex; now with nano-robotic ethanol droplets that react to sunlight and microfiber towels for a streak-free shine.

When the technology we used was sold to MicroFocus, the joke was that they are the group that buys mature technology stacks simply to bleed the last bit of revenue out of them before they're completely worthless.

Broadcom has recently started showing the same traits, jacking up the costs of their recently purchased virtualization platform while they can before the product becomes a true commodity that cannot generate revenue.

Now it sounds like Oracle is following the same playbook. Oracle's Java platform has been commoditized. So has the RDMS. Most businesses are discovering they just don't need to pay the high costs Oracle charges.. so they're jacking up the costs for those that have not yet discovered that or are locked in for other reasons.. and doing it quickly before that changes.

What we're witnessing is the death knell of another formerly innovative company that got mired in bureaucracy and complacence. Farewell, Oracle; your time has come.

You mean the JFK documents that were released containing hundreds of social security numbers of federal employees? Not exactly a glowing recommendation.

I just flew Basic Economy on United earlier this week. I could not check in online without entering my CC just in case I brought more than my personal item. Gave the gate agent an earful until he used his badge to verify my personal item's dimensions and proceed with the check-in.

Yeah, complain about the budget airlines while you follow their lead. Pound sand, Kirby.

I see. Avoiding a pass of writing zeros to a structure before writing the values you actually want there is not an efficient pattern, it just makes something crap. Got it; thank you.

You're not missing something. Much like Disney's "Snow White" was called a "success" despite bombing both at the box office and on streaming, the corporate media stooges will blithely state the complete opposite in an attempt to hide abject failure. Ubisoft is no different.

AC fans waited years to get a game with samurai's based in feudal Japan. What they got is a "samurai" game with no actual Japanese samurai protagonist. Ubisoft's reason for this is painfully obvious to everyone. This is why Japanese consumers have largely rejected it and has a lot to do with why sales have tanked overall.

There's a saying for this that ends with "go broke." It's slipping my mind at the moment, but I'm sure it'll come to me eventually.

If more companies would not only put a monetary bounty on these crooks but also specify "dead or alive," perhaps it would start to put a dent in their activities. They're already operating from countries that either look the other way or actively assist them in their activities. Putting a death mark on them ups the stakes considerably and allows the use of...ahem...alternate actors...ahem...that can operate beyond the law to get actual results.

Wow, you really can't even continue reading once sentence after the one that triggers you.

Everything you said is true for an individual, but misses the point the parent was making regarding the total number of charging stations needed.

If an EV needs to charge 20 minutes every 200 miles, and an ICE vehicle needs to pump gas for 5 minutes every 200 miles, then you will need 4 times the number of public level 3 chargers as gas pumps to serve the same number of cars. In fact if roadtripping EVs are mostly charging at normal meal breaks, then you will need even more chargers, since use will be more clustered compared to gas stops.

On the flip side, the public chargers will only be used by people on road trips or who don't have a home charger which will decrease their volume. Still I would expect you to need more chargers than gas pumps along highways, and fewer in the middle of cities.

They wrote this software for free, and they gave you for free security updates that don't require accepting any new features. They even went out of their way to continue putting out security releases (ESR 115.13) for operating systems that Microsoft and Apple don't even support anymore. And they did this all six months in advance so you would have plenty of time to upgrade.

But enjoy your freedom to run old unpatched software.

They realized their mistake and corrected it. Now, they're not telling people about the forced 15-minute wait, they're just quietly implementing it.

In many ways I like the Lyttle Lytton contest even more. There were some very good Bulwer-Lytton entries, but it could also devolve into who could write the longest run-on sentence. Having a short word limit forced authors to really distill their horribleness.