Or drive over them a little bit on purpose just to let you know we're not an AI.

In case anyone's confused:

The quotation was from the lyrics of the song "I Want Your Sex" from George Michael's 1987 solo debut Faith . That song's lyrics are from the point of view of the male in a heterosexual monogamous couple: "I can't take much more, girl / I'm losing control" (my emphasis). Michael's turn toward specifically gay lyrics would come several years later, starting around 1998.

Again, that depends on the country. Slashdot's home country (the USA) has the Audio Home Recording Act, which creates a carveout for private copying of sound recordings.

Still no remote revocation.

No honey, I didn't cheap out, my plan the whole time was to buy some cool tools and remodel the basics of our bathroom myself then hire contractors to "polish" it.

Randy Marsh is that you? Look, I'd reserve overall judgement until I see results, but nobody is buying that, and it's not a great plan. Leave the tools to professionals, it's not that they're hard to use, it's that the project is harder than you think.

Over time, a smaller fraction of newly released movies and TV series have been made available on DVD. Instead, many are exclusive to a streaming service.

Your spelling implies that you learned English in Britain or another Commonwealth country. I don't know how the law works in Britain, but in Slashdot's home country (the USA), some of the carveouts for individual use in the copyright statute apply to "the owner of a lawfully made copy." (The statute defines "copy" as a physical object in which a work is fixed.) See, for example, Title 17, United States Code, sections 109 (regarding resale of an individual copy) and 117 (regarding copying a computer program into RAM for use).

Google has always been a crawler, not a directory. Its crawl was seeded at times with data from Dmoz Open Directory Project, a directory that Netscape acquired in 1998 and ran as an open database to compete with Yahoo.

One downside of the directory model is that the operator of a newly established website may not know what search engines its prospective audience are using.

A second downside is time cost of navigating the red tape of keeping the site's listing updated everywhere. This has included finding where in each directory's detailed categorization a site belongs and understanding what each directory expects in each field of the submission form so as to avoid a binding rejection that can delay a site's addition for months. It has also included solving CAPTCHAs meant to deter spammers from overloading a search engine with low-quality sites. In fact, the first CAPTCHA I ever saw was on AltaVista's submission circa early 2000, and it surprised me enough to try opening the site in Lynx to grab a screenshot and complain about its inaccessibility on Slashdot. It took until fourth quarter 2003 for inaccessibility of CAPTCHA to be recognized by a notable organization.

A third is monetary cost to submit a listing. At one point, some search engines were start charging a fee to crawl a site. In particular, Overture's GoTo.com pretended to be a search engine but was 100 percent pay-for-click ads. (Imagine if Google had a search engine just for AdWords listings, and that were the default.)

J. R. R. Tolkien indeed suggested that Men hunted Hobbits for sport. See "LOTR: Did Men Hunt Hobbits To Extinction For Sport?" by Alice Rose Dodds, as well as a quotation from Tolkien's The Nature of Middle-earth .

The "nursery" paradigm can help to bring some sense of scope and lifetime back to a multithreaded task. See "Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful" by Nathaniel J. Smith (8000 words)

Are you suggesting that search engines ought to go back from the crawling model of WebCrawler, AltaVista, and Google to the opt-in directory model of Yahoo! and Dmoz, with each website operator expected to be aware of each search engine and register a sitemap in order to get their site crawled?

Then perhaps the proper venue for this could be antitrust court. Start by investigating how YouTube managed to secure and maintain a monopoly on recommendation of user-generated videos.

I'm in touch with a few artists that have set up a Bandcamp artist account, and others who have an Itch.io account to upload albums packaged with Bandcrash, before they complete all the paperwork to get listed on Apple Music. Likewise, from 2014 to 2017, a bunch of artists were exclusive to GhostTunes (which later merged with Amazon) because they preferred its album-only sales structure and greater royalty rate. I admit that it wouldn't apply to most of what my roommate listens to (top 40 pop, pop standards, and classic rock).

My roommate doesn't pay a subscription on her iPhone SE 3 because she's on a relative's Apple Music family plan.

That and I don't know how to get an MP3 albums purchased through Bandcamp onto her iPhone without buying a Mac new enough to run supported macOS or a PC new enough to run supported Windows. Nor do I know of any iPhone app other than the included Music app that lets a playlist contain both purchased music and subscription music. Last I checked, even though libimobiledevice can read and write files on an iPhone, only iTunes could update the music library database that the iPhone's Music app reads. I use Xubuntu 24.04, but I've found that Wine can't run drivers such as the Apple Mobile Device Service that comes with iTunes and is required to sync music onto an iPhone.

So you are saying that GMail provides Republicans with better spam filtering than it does Democrats? I agree that is REALLY not fair. They need to improve Democrat spam filtering.

Filing this under every accusation is a confession, Demented Don.

Donald couldn't even pass a US citizenship test. Quick, without cheating, how many amendments to the US Constitution are there? How many states do we have? How many Justices are on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Would you stake your life on Donald J Trump accurately locating Alaska on a map? Which ocean is Hawaii in? Nope. We both know it. So of course you have to throw "demented" at other presidents, because you know you have one and it makes you feel vulnerable. Sad, really.