Comment Re:IPO for billions, sells for millions later. (Score 1) 18
What about Micron?
It's just like the gold rush. The profits were made by those selling equipment and supplies, not those panning for gold.
What about Micron?
It's just like the gold rush. The profits were made by those selling equipment and supplies, not those panning for gold.
CIA deals with external threats (from outside the country)
CIA is supposed to deal with external threats. Is this rule rigidly adhered to? Given what we have seen from the Wyden Siren, I seriously doubt that the CIA is holding to this rule.
Unfortunately, the people with enough money to maintain and promote a credible browser make most of that money from advertising, tracking and other malware
Google makes money by selling adverts and information. It's not actually in Google's interests to allow random websites to mine their customers' data.
The referenced Washington Post article is based on US government statistics, and if you believe those statistics, I have a bridge to sell you. The
Civil servants have been fired for delivering "bad" numbers. You think the remaining staffers are going to look for things that might make the numbers look bad?
One more thing this administration has corrupted: economic statistics.
Charging for Gmail is unthinkable, that would have so many knock-on effects.
Google already charges for Gmail, if you go over your storage quota.
My primary account has 17GB of free storage.
And thanks to extensive use of a Pixel 4a, I have over 100GB of photos stored in this account.
I personally went from dial-up to cable modem. No DSL or ISDN in between.
A few seconds plugging in? Are you just plugging directly into the output of a nuclear plant?
Are you really that dense? Once you plug in your car in the garage, you don't have to stay with it. You ca go into the house and get on with your life (or slouch in front of the TV, if that's what you want) while your car charges.
Please explain how people in Norway cope.
This will provide hackers more opportunities to create misleading domain names that look like famous brands.
But what explains haunted houses in the 19th century?
Firstly, they had infrasound in the 19th century. Think railways.
Also, carbon monoxide from badly adjusted gas lamps.
But they found it was not possible for anyone to break a glass with just their voice
No. They found that they could not break glass with just a voice, nor did they know anyone who could. Did they test every single person on the planet?
It's not possible to prove a negative. Much of what Mythbusters claimed was that they had proved a negative.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L. Mencken
People who need reading glasses are not ready for this. Even if you wear progressive lenses, there is a problem because the lenses are made for near vision looking down, not up where a motor would be.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.