Thank you!

That would seem to be important, no?
Thanks.

P.s. TFA does not specify.

to prevent an involuntary overwrite. I don't think it stops the nag, but you won't get a "helpful surprise" install against your will.

Available here (free): https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

C&H Surplus had a wonderful store on an increasingly pricey stretch of Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA, but had to relocate several miles east as rents and property values increased. Its former proximity to Caltech and JPL (and sundry assorted neighborhood subcontractors) yielded up tons and aisle after aisle of high grade test equipment, massive power supplies, relay racks, and who-knows-what. I remember getting into a yelling match with my mom (40 years ago) that a hulking Tektronix oscilloscope I picked up was not a "television" (which I was not allowed to have in my bedroom!) After a little cosmetic work, I ended up selling it for a small profit -- to a bigger geek than I was/am.

ah, walking down memory lane . . . .

I use PuTTY to SSH into my FreeBSD box. And no, Netcraft has not confirmed anything.

Get it here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org...

How long could you ping pong a dialog between 2 Gmail accounts?

Good point. The magnitude of the risk is not something I had considered in the comparison.
Thank you!

If driverless automobiles are plausible (with generally two degrees/ranges of motion), why do we need a human to "drive" something that can generally only go in one direction?

Thank you Saint Aardvark for taking the time to write this review. You write very well.
--Z.

Followed by a burst of some sort of disabling agent to hold them until the police arrive?

Why would flash memory be non-replaceable? Sure, the stuff that was on it when it failed might be hard to replace, but that's why you keep backups, right?

The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.

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The ROT13 thing was funny once. It is now just irritating.

Please stop being such stupid unfunny fuckwits.

It's only a requirement in the US, and it doesn't use GPS. GPS would be a waste of time for this, because it would either need to be on all the time and thereby kill your battery in an hour, or only enabled in response to an emergency call and need a good ten minutes to get a lock from cold.

Why would GPS be "mandatory" on a phone? It's only in the past two or three years that GPS receivers have got small and low-power enough to fit to phones, without requiring a battery the size of a brick.

If you want to locate a phone, GPS is close to useless.