Having long ago worked for not-even-close to the largest or most sophisticated marketing emailer (on behalf of Fortune 500 clients) waaaay back in 1999, the use of "spy" pixels (aka beacons, etc.) was de rigueur. So much so that firms couldn't compete without even that very basic tracking functionality in place.

Even assuming that by now a lot of what was once outsourced may have been taken in-house with turnkey emailing solutions, I find it hard to believe that adoption of this technique isn't closer to 100%.

Look around you. No, no it is not.

There's much that Preview cannot handle with respect to PDFs that forces people to install Adobe's software to fill those gaps. Many of those holes result from features of PDF that I wish people wouldn't use, but do (e.g., PDF Forms).

I typically refrain from calling out the staff supporting /., but is it really too much to postfix the submission title with "in Nigeria"? Or is that somehow at cross-purposes with what you all are trying to achieve on this site?

If you think eBay's margins are inflated, you clearly aren't familiar with Amazon's fees imposed on third-party sellers, which have been monkeyed with at least twice in the past year, and to the benefit of Amazon alone.

Is it really worth the effort and cost in archiving? To be honest, I don't see the value or the point other than for that feel good feeling of archiving something obscure for the future in the off chance that someone may find it and watch it. There's a lot of old content that just needs to die and be forgotten. If it's worth remembering, someone already digitized it.

Off the cuff, I'd imagine that a great deal of news footage from the era in question was recorded to tape (rather than film) that is subject to the stresses of time and the elements. Materials such as these beholden to the limitations of the medium under discussion aren't just about "that feel good feeling of archiving something obscure".

Ask Nixon's ghost.

Not sure what the definition of 'pure Internet company' might be in this context, but IMDb has been owned outright by Amazon since the late '90s, so at best, it's a 'pure Internet subsidiary' ...

Seriously, just Google it: brother toner cartridge recycling program

(posting to undo errant mod)

As far as I know, just Oregon and one other state (can't recall) are the only ones that have this provision.

New Jersey also requires "full service" gas stations.

Is there any other company with it's perception of viability so closely linked to a single living individual?

• Martha Stewart Living (and similar personality-oriented ventures)
• Berkshire Hathaway(?)

Or, did you mean to limit the question to the technology field?