I cannot wait to see the natural language description of Microsoft Windows

It would be good to see if it can be applied to statements from Politicians. We've often said they can talk for ages without saying anything.

Black and white (not even grayscale) screen, dome-key flat keyboard, and BASIC built in. I ended up learning Z80 machine code on it.

Happy times.

As long as they (KODI) utterly refuse to stop playing non-DRM content, this is a no-lose scenario.

The instant the DRM crowd try to insist on policing the non-DRM content, KODI should walk, or fork.

This gets to the heart of the problem around post-truth. Just who defines "truth"?

How does that fit in to the checks and balances in a democratic society? Does everything have to go through the courts?

At this rate, I can ignore the messaging craze completely, as my 2018 it'll only consist of AI bots pretending to be people. Then I can grab a beer and read a book under a shady tree, secure in the knowledge that my personal brand is being maintained by my AI bot.

I have a nice array of filters that simply allow these guys to leave a message which is then carefully sent to /dev/null

My phones in my house don't even ring.

We use a chalkboard all the time for sketching out open source solutions. Of course it helps that we painted a whole wall with chalkboard paint. Somehow a whiteboard is not as satisfying.

I can totally believe that Microsoft doesn't have enough creativity to make use of a chalkboard any more. It's sad if true.

Looking at the RTS article (in French) it's clearly a trademark issue, not a patent.

Normally patents expire 20 years after filing, so Reuters should have smelled a rat.

How do you think the toothpaste gets into the tube in the first place ;-) OK, a nozzle to put toothpaste back inside would find it hard to re-create the stripes.

Here's an overview of toothpaste manufacturer
  https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I am an ecologist actively campaigning against the idiocy of fracking (especially in a karst landscape like ours). I can categorically state that no-one is financing us, let alone the Russians.

I can't imagine anything worse than owning a discharged smartphone full of bitcoins after the apocalypse.

Agree 100%. They did the same to me. Funny, since they closed down Fictionwise I have bought 0 books or magazines from B&N.

Are there Darwin awards for corporations?

B&N bought Fictionwise - a great E-Book web store that sold DRM-free electronic subscriptions. I subscribed to Asimovs Sci-Fi magazine for >10 years there, reading it in Palm (originally), EPUB and PDF formats. I bought hundreds of books as well. A year after buying it, B&N closed it down, and said I had to transfer to their DRM'd formats.

Now I don't buy anything from them. Idiots.

You need to sign up to http://www.dontmakemesteal.com/ If enough of us do, perhaps the movie industry will take notice. Already the European Commission did (who regulates the entire online, TV and Cinema worlds in Europe), but they say they if they see 100k sign-ups they'll pay attention. Until then it's all ACTA and similar...

Up to you.