Comcast is *hardly* the only business that (gleefully) wants its customers to know how much money they're forced to collect from its customers that's then handed back to some government (federal or state... whatever). They refuse to roll up all the fees/taxes and present the total as 'their' charge for the product/service. They want their customers to know how much stinky old regulators are grabbing money out of customers' pockets.

Yup. All these cryptocurrencies are 'pump and dump' schemes. They're way to volatile, and while in some cases can be used as a sort of 'currency' (often by converting to fiat currency at the time of purchase/sale), they really are not something to plan on holding to buy things with when you need it. If I want my paycheck in BitCoin, I'll take $US and convert it myself. IPO's for cryptocurrencies are way too frequent to be seriously anything but some clever person/group starting their own 'pump and dump' scheme. They are too many 'news' releases announcing that some 'news-generator' predicts that bitcoin is 'targeted' to rise to some exorbitant new high ($100,000, e.g.) the real purpose of which is to try to snag more suckers. With the recent stability of traders/markets (e.g. Coinbase, CoinDesk, BitStamp, etc.) it's become easier to play the cryptocurrency IPO game. Soon to come: Ransomware futures - or does that already exist?

Why would you not change your passwords when you split up? Or do you just stop paying the bill and let the account/services die for lack of payment?

Wouldn't it be possible to detect deepfake tweets, blog postings, facebook postings, etc by distracting them with comments generated by a deepfake AI taking the opposition position? The two (or more) of them could spin off onto cluster with their 'conversation' going while real humans talk amongst themselves?

So... how do you know that your website causes my display device to emit 670nm light??

Maybe you can't see your score, but is there a new industry created to improve your Syft score?

Isn't this the best answer? Mr. Gibson's carefully thought out technology - and open.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grc.com%2Fsqrl%2Fsqrl.htm

In my experience people give up doing the formal 'eject' drive process because Windows (any version) will often tell you that it can't eject device because it's in use. But it won't give you a clue as to what's using it. It's yet another useless Windows message that gives you no useful course of action. Users are stuck - so of course Windows teaches them to yank anyway. To have background processes that are doing things that users can't see is fine - I suppose - but when the user wants their USB stick back, those background processes better speak up - in the foreground - and say what the hell they're doing with your USB stick.Even better - offer the user a way to say "I want my USB back and I want it back NOW",
Of course - if writing a file - then the writing process has to complete. And if UI components actually presented credible information about when actual writing is happening and then when it's actually done, then people would have reason to learn to yank after it's all done. But then how many dialog boxes with progress bars (or some other progress representation) run all the way to the end and then just sit there? 15 seconds of copying and then 10 minutes of hang - with no useful clue to the user as to what the hell's going on. So, again - you teach users to yank anyway.

The goofy picture of the 'scientist' in white lab coat costume looking at a display while the 'subject' is hooked up to wires. Plus, the whole 'Gosh, isn't it amazing what you can do with Science' tone of the article. This is just someone's idea of viral marketing. And apparently, it's working, too! Is there some connection between all the artists/albums mentioned in the sidebar?

Paragraph 2 says: "still allows for high visibility."

Paragraph 6 says: "The film blocks or absorbs about 80 percent of visible light"

I am not an engineer - but can you actually prevent 80 % of visible light from getting through and really claim there is "high visibility" ?

This is rich.. "The whole point of the universality of the Web would be to not have those kind of distinctions, but we're still living with them."... What do you think they teach people in B-school? To make your products indistinguishable from those your competition? what a joke. Truly a capitalist geek whine-fest. The history of software is littered with ego-tripping coders who cry, "if everybody would just use MY standard, we'd all have a simpler more beautiful technology". It's why the web is a tower of babel of so-called "standards".