According to the CDC (yes, that CDC), "Crypto" is a parasite.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/...

Apparently it can infect humans and be transferred between humans in a secure and decentralized manner even if nobody trusts the infected humans.

Thank you sir! May I have another!

Yep, there were 38,800 deaths in the US. Oh wait, those were with human drivers not using Autopilot. My bad!

Source: National Safety Council -- https://www.nsc.org/road-safet...

"Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year"
https://www.asirt.org/safe-tra...

I've noticed that my phone seems to know the speed limit better than I do.

If it hadn't been for the antitrust case...

And if it hadn't been for IBM's antitrust woes, the world would have never known of Bill Gates.

"On Nov. 6, 1980, the contract that would change the future of computing was signed: IBM would pay Microsoft $430,000 for what would be called MS-DOS. But the key provision in that agreement was the one that allowed Microsoft to license the operating system to other computer manufacturers besides IBM — a nonexclusive arrangement that IBM agreed to in part because it was caught up in decades of antitrust investigations and litigation. IBM’s legal caution, however, would prove to be Microsoft’s business windfall, opening the door for the company to become the dominant tech company of the era."
www.ozy.com/flashback/the-agreement-that-catapulted-microsoft-over-ibm/94437

XHTML? Sorry, but HTML5 kicked that ugly thing to the curb.

They said the same thing about divestment from apartheid in South Africa.

And they were right... until they were not.

He didn't. He drove and drank.

Yeah, like getting their asses kicked so their monopoly is not as dangerous:

Zune --> iPod
Microsoft Tablet PC --> iPad
Lumia/Nokia --> iPhone
IE --> Firefox (and then Chrome)
JScript/ActiveX --> JavaScript
Outlook --> Gmail
IIS Web Server --> Linux + other open source

Microsoft didn't clean up by choice.

...the impact of the ATM machine was not to destroy tellers, actually it was to increase it.

http://www.aei.org/publication...

Since ATMs resulted in more human teller jobs (albeit doing few tedious tasks like counting out twenties), banks will need to get a lucrative credit under this new robot taxation scheme.

Yep. People share passwords all the time. They shouldn't do it, but they do. This is NOT a case of identity theft.

Switzerland is European. It's just not in the EU.

npm loves you.


(or so I've been told)

Have we solved this problem yet?

Hmmm, according to the Houston Chronicle that's going to be a problem:

https://www.houstonchronicle.c...