I think another contributing factor, specific to business that provides 24/7 support, is that it's now easier than ever to have call centers in multiple countries, everyone working "normal" business hours, but still making good on their 24/7 coverage. Of course, a lot of those call centers are now exclusively in places like India, so the 24 hour shift work has just been outsourced, too.

How about... make the AI as add-ons and people can choose to install them in their browser - but don't put "AI" into the main browser at all? That seems a lot more logical and less controversial.

Maybe they can address Youtube, Facebook and Twitter next... for the exact same reasons.

Funny how much this looks like how I've had my Cinnamon desktop configured for almost a decade...system menu at the top left, widgets, clock etc on the top right, open applications top center; then at bottom center is the open application windows on each particular monitor, and bottom right is the virtual desktop switcher and system sensors widget. I've used this configuration since switching from Ubuntu 11.04's first attempt at the Unity desktop (tried it for 30 days, it just did NOT work well for me - couldn't be customized at all for one thing) over to MATE on Linux Mint 13. MATE was decent, but I tried out Cinnamon about a month later and haven't gone back. In my multi-monitor setups I have panels (toolbars) on every monitor, with different information on each. Let's see Windows get *that* flexible...

you mean this?

"Badgers?!? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!!"

(UHF, not Treasure of the Sierra Madre.....)

This is not quite true. A trial jury can only ask for clarification from presented evidence, and only as part of their deliberations, not in open court.
Now, a grand jury has more latitude, but their deliberations and questions are secret, unless released by a judge.

The problem with Systemd is not that it's replacing init, but that it's moved on from init to try and control login, DNS resolution, home directory allocation, sound, kernel logging, driver loading, etc, etc. If Pottering had stuck with only writing an init system, then Systemd wouldn't be the vilified clusterfuck it is today.

Of course Facebook doesn't want them to be indexed by Google! It's not a privacy issue, it's so FB can have an advantage in the marketing data.

At what point did SQL become a programming language, and not a query language used by actual application languages? Also if SQL is now considered a programming language, which flavor is in demand? MS, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, NoSQL, what?

This goes back to something I've been saying for years - the content creators should not be the content distributors.

Yes, the property taxes may be higher, but California makes up for that by having a state income tax of up to 12.3% (which Texas doesn't have at all).

https://access.redhat.com/secu... gives a perfect example of what Red Hat does. Their example is PHP, with unmaintained older versions which Red Hat still supports (5.3, in the case of RHEL 6, until November 2020).

One of us is misunderstanding what HSTS is for. From my reading, it appears that this helps mitigate man-in-the-middle protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking, but it would not do a thing to prevent a browser from accessing a third-party or spoofed site with a valid certificate. Am I misunderstanding this?

Connect to Slack over IRC and XMPP. I tried this for I while but it was awkward in my experience.

Probably end up being more like Samaritan...