That's a bold security decision, freezing patches for CVEs reported in your base software.

Would be a shame if there was relevant cybersecurity regulation that required you to mitigate known issues.

I believe the plan was to give that sobriquet to Lake Michigan, in honour of its decidedly flaccid silhouette.

I had a problem where AI scrapers were absolutely DETERMINED to fish out every possible query string from a search results page. Almost all of the query strings they tried were invalid due to shitty and dysfunctional string substitution. "&page=100" wouldn't be followed by "&page=101", it would be followed by "&pag&pag=1010" or something even more insanely half-baked, until the query strings were like 100+ characters long. It was the technological equivalent of watching HIV mutate in real time.

But the insane thing was that, aside from page number, they were always requesting info about the same other criteria: filtered by the same user, the same page type, and with no text string. So I just took those particular values and started banning logged-out users who requested that combination of criteria.

I figured I'd need to change my tactics in a couple of days once the botnet got bored of that particular page and moved on to requesting bogus entries for another user.

MariaDB> select count(*) from ip_bans;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 671671 |
+----------+

It hasn't.

Not using a 2400 bps modem to complain about how tiresome new technology is.

Nah. It's because Ford got off a sick burn talking about how much real estate there is on his ass so Trump has lots to kiss.

There's something the kids say about only a handful of unique sentences being left unwritten.

Ketchup.

That one was yet another case of Ridley having a script, deciding it was good enough to start building sets and working on effects, and then constantly changing the script all the way up through editing. Whole subplots got dropped, characters who appeared in promo material just never showed up in the movie, character motivations stopped making sense, plot points were retroactively changed, etc. Prometheus suffered from the same problem, if not to an even greater degree. It's like those movies where everybody cries "studio interference!" ... only in Ridley's case, he's the one who interferes constantly with his own movies.

I was thinking about this. I fully expect the journalist said "weight" because they don't know or didn't think about the difference, but you can't actually measure mass. We always infer it from measurements of force and, sitting stationary in a gravitational field, we virtually always do so by measuring the force required to counter gravity, i.e. by measuring weight.

From TFS:

Google complies because they fear being cut out of the no-bid quid pro quo bureaucracy that currently dominates all political decision-making in the White House.

From a 7 year old article on the subject:

The median age of a new BMW owner is 56 years old.

Age Breakdown of New Buyers:
* Under 24: 1%
* 25 to 54 years: 40%
* 55 to 64 years: 29%
* 65 years and older: 30%

My read: some 60%+ of BMW buyers grew up thinking power windows and power locks are luxuries. And probably struggled to program a VCR back in the day. It's not the tech-literate customer base that BMW thinks it is, or rather I think BMW knows exactly who buys their cars but want some new blood.

If that's true, then these hypothetical younger BMW buyers are likely very poor drivers.

But I'd also caution against making promises that you can't keep.

Unless it's a floppy disk that has a hole that breaks the circuit to the write head, it's not actually "write protected"
I remember when motherboards had a jumper you had to move in order to apply a BIOS update. I suspect most people found this inconvenient or too complicated for end-users, but it was also a lot harder to put irremovable malware into computer back then.

Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source

The rocket that launches it does.

Did you miss the part in TFS where they have to use an expensive chemical process to break the plastic down into simple molecules before these yeast can begin to eat it?