I can understand some frustration with customers mistaking Voice-Recognation (Artificial Stupidity) for AI. But put yourself in their shoes, have you ever listened to the back-tape (if available) or tried calling-in yourself and wading past the gauntlet of questions? Most appear carefully designed to frustrate the caller. Calls cost the company money.

Why stay with MS-Windows? It is known-bad. I had lotsa trouble finding a driver for my aging Samsung ML-1740 laser. Thought the printer might be brokken.

Nope. Plugged it into my Ubuntu main terminal and it was automagically detected, loaded and the Test came out fine. Truly Plug-n-Play (TM)

'scuse me, but prove said computer was not TOAST whenever MS-win10 was least-bad? It will only get slightly worst after alleged-support ends in October.

Linux has been running main my machines since 2000 with a few island MS machines that occasionally get booted to run specific software (never more than one per). The idea of any MS-OS being suitable for general-purpose, 24/7 is beyond risible--all require too much maintenence.

BINGO! If you want to see what the US fiscal balance would look like without Triffin, look north at the loonie and adjust X/M down. Not pretty and yet even it leans on the USD (as a proxy).

What if some troll (M$) buys the original artwork -- do they then have rights to all the derivative works, including Trademarks?

If the mix is bad, maybe C is the problem? =ducks=

Agreed. Didn't I pretty much say that? AFAICS, most LEO have a large polar component. Equitorials have limited coverage.

If lucky, a sensor net might pickup strikes on soil above decent bedrock. But at least 70% of earth's surface is covered by water with will dissipate much and transmit little to the underlying bedrock. Falls are pseudorandom, perhaps more or less since most of the falling satellites (geosync don't fall) are on polar orbits.

If I were them, I'd be looking for ocean anomalies. Ripples in a pond.

Of course there will be ensh^C -- look around you, what product/service has not degraded over time (after invention)? Part of this is the difficulty measuring quality compared to volumes or profits. And the strong incentives for the latter. But part is also the democratization and optimization of quality.

Remember MySpace? Competition still works. AFAICS, fazebuch is stagnating.

/. is supposed to be programmer-adjacent folk. Does no-one realize a well-optimized page that displays well [tested] on many different devices & screen widths cannot simply have a line deleted without scr3wing up the display? Especially with required input! Worse with HTML"composters".

Much easier and safer to change text to something [slightly] less noxious. That's the PC reason.

Agreed. My observations were you aussies are a warm and friendly lot, but your government workers are far otherwise. Pardon the insult, but they seem bent on delivering "The Full Convict Experience".

Will this lead to a renaissance of USENET to continue the flamewars? No central authority to bully.

The water was here, the question is whether it was liquid-phase. The many samples from Luna (incl the recent CN farside) would show. Very useful to compare.

You don't imagine that when the Moon (Luna) was knocked-off Earth that it was the only object to be sent out by the impactor? Many smaller ones would be as well, though most would have been recaptured by Earth's or Luna's gravity well.

Notwithstanding bloques claiming the same within N.America. I am honoured and aware.