The regime is imploding while Trump literally just sits back and enjoys the show.

But it isn't. The US attack has bolstered public opinion for them, and ensured there's a new generation of Persians growing up to hate the US. It's funny how you complain about people supposedly hating you, then proceed to give them very good reasons to hate you.

With the username "PinkyGigglebrain" I think that's a given.

It depends on focal length as well as f-stop (shorter focal length gives more depth of field at the same f-stop). Smaller sensors need shorter focal lengths for the same field of view, so a "50mm equivalent field of view" f/2.8 lens for a smaller sensor will have more depth of field than a "50mm equivalent field of view" f/2.8 lens for a larger sensor.

Nintendo didn't buy Rare. Microsoft bought Rare in 2002 to turn them into an Xbox exclusive developer, like they did with Bungie.

The Car and Driver numbers are for he US only. The GP's list is based global sales. Still, the Model Y is only the best-selling EV in the US, and not the best-selling car in the world by any measure.

Various SPARC-based Sun Enterprise Server products supported hot-swapping CPUs under Solaris. I think some of the POWER-based IBM System p servers support hot-swapping CPUs under Linux. Maybe some of the Unisys ES7000 support it?

Or a musician.

The implication is that the "pusher" sells heavily-discounted drugs to the kids, or gives them free samples, to get them addicted. Then they need to steal money to buy more drugs to feed their habit. I'm not sure this was ever a real thing, but that's the narrative the ads were playing on.

Why? What evidence is there to support that? Or lacking evidence, even a proposed biological mechanism by which harm could be caused by non-ionising radiation?

I'm not a biologist or oncologist, but here in Australia, it's well-known that prolonged exposure to non-ionising UV radiation as a significant contributing factor to developing melanoma and other skin cancers. I'm not saying mobile phones necessarily cause cancer, just pointing out that there are mechanisms by which non-ionising radiation is known to cause cancer. Simply being non-ionising dosn't mean prolonged exposure is safe.

JPEG2000 was brought down by patent licensing. No-one wanted to pay the fees required to implement it. It was never about technical considerations.

She quit after Lavabit e-mail was shut down in 2013, on the grounds that without a private, anonymous e-mail service, it wouldn't be possible to keep doing Groklaw. Can you link to the "live" interview she did, or where a journalist claimed to have confirmed her identity, or a cite a source where she said that was part of the reason for quitting? Because I remember following the whole thing, and the identity of the PJ persona was cloudy to the end.

The interviews linked are all "responds to prepared questions via e-mail" type affairs. That could easily have been fielded by a team behind the name. I mean, it's possible PJ was just a very privacy-conscious person. But there's still nothing linking the PJ name or alias to an individual.

Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.

Samsung Pay doesn't involve Samsung acting as a bank. They only act as an intermediary for storing "virtual payment cards" in the security module on your phone. There's some standard interface between Samsung's servers and the financial institutions to facilitate adding cards and sending transaction notifications to the phones. I though Apple Pay could work the same way. It wouldn't surprise me if Google Wallet requires the payment to actually go through them, since they want to put their noses in everything.

It happens on any platform where you download and install Firefox from Mozilla (including the portable installation for Linux). The Firefox packages from the Linux distros themselves hack this out, as well as changing a few other behaviours.