Took 2 posts to get to the first climate change denialist BS.

Name the "climate scientists" who were " worried sick" about ice ages.
You can't, because there were none. It's just a stupid straw man.

Those who said we were in an inter-glacial warming period, thought we might be back in an ice age IN THOUSANDS OF YEARS. No one was "worried" about that. And with the help of fossil fuels, all the natural climate cycles have been upended.

Every Chinese who uses Wechat knows they are being spied on. They still use it, because everything else is blocked. When they want to discuss things that might attract censorship, they use ever-changing euphemisms,

They never have. I used to send in corrections to them every day about 10 years ago, till I realised they just really did not care about grammar, about dupes, about blatant hoaxes about stories that were 5 years old with a new daye on them....

""you can expect to see more added over time as we partner with companies like the DAISY Consortium to add additional, accessible apps.."

Daisy supports DRM, so of course MS would push you to use that. Plain, open format ePubs are too accessible.

MS only grudgingly supports open formats. Back in the 90s, Gates wanted to just put Word Doc format files on the Internet, sneered at HTML. whe he had no choice, bought IE from someone and kept trying to add proprietary extensions to it.

But would never read an ebook in a browser, maybe just to look something up. Have plenty of good epub apps to do that.
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"Microsoft Edge will no longer be supporting [sic]"

This is not a grammatical error Future continuous tense? will .. be supporting"

The submitter's suggested "Microsoft Edge will no longer be support" is definitely wrong.

Skitt's Law, "any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself"

"sing the photo for AI research would be a breach of copyright "

No. Republishing the photos would be breach of copyright -- that's what the "copy" in the word means. Analysing the photos is no more infringing than watching a movie and publishing a review is.

Firefox is not now XP compatible
It's been a pig on that platform for the last year though, load one simple webpage and it starts taking up 50% or more of CPU, and a GB of RAM.
FFS.
Used to be lean and mean. Now bloated clumsy and annoying.

Whenever I had a Windows problem and Googled for help, I might find threads on an MS forum: almost always, simply dozens of people asking the same question; no answers except maybe "update your system".
Then I go to msfn.org and ask and usually get a real answer.

Anyway, I've been thinking about upgrading from WinXP to Win7.
All my commercial software is OK (no need for MS Office beyond 2003, which does all I need and can read current files), annoyingly it''s the free stuff that is dropping support; when they go to Qt5, as most do, they say break on XP.
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"Her ability to call me was a godsend!"

Because it's impossible to make a phone call without using your personal mobile phone,

"they are now talking about banning kitchen knives with pointed ends."

I assume you are one of those American gun nuts who says things like "pillows can suffocate people, so if you ban guns, you should also ban pillows".

If you RTFA, you find it's just one judge who said that in his retirement speech. It has no chance in hell of anyone taking it seriously, yet you use it to snidely imply that any gun control inevitably leads to absurdities like that. All because of one remark by one judge-- not on the bench, in his private capacity.

Of course, this BS is already an NRA talking point:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nraila.org%2Farticle...

"Most aircraft accidents are human error, so relative risk is likely lower."

That assumes that autopilot is at least as good as a human pilot in every situation.

What the concern many have is what happens when the autopilot fails? It's just absurd to think that such a complex program will never meet a real world situation it wasn't designed for. Or suffer damage to itself. Or have erroneous sensors. Or be hacked.

"The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."

"The service, which would also be able to install security patches to an idle car"

Right. And that will never be exploited.

It's such a fucking pain in the arse when in a third world country, you HAVE to bargain for every single purchase; or get charged the "white man" price -- ten times or more than the local price. Uber is bringing this shit back -- but when I bargain for a bejak in Indonesia; I know how the system works. I also expect I won't get the same price as a local. Uber is exploiting the trust people that an automated system will be fair; so very likely white people will be paying more on average than coloured in many cites under this system. That's sure to go down well once it gets known. And even if it isn't how it actually works, an opaque and situational pricing system will be (rightly) assumed to be fucking the customer by default -- cf telecom company charges..

Some hardware is just designed for Windows.
Linux hackers have to use wrappers on blobs of Windows code to make them work.
For most laptops I've seen you can replace the wifi card. About as complex as installing a hard disk.

The difference is, only the postal service had access to physical mail and could steam it open. But anyone anywhere in the world could intercept messages on the Internet, and a backdoor is equally accessible to anyone anywhere.