I backed four Kickstarter campaigns, only one of which actually delivered on their project (Tangible Waves AEmodular, which is awesome and still very successful).

One delivered junk that in no way represented what was "promised" by the campaign, and two actually disappeared off the face of the earth with a VERY large amount of money. Last I checked, one of those two was even still collecting money through a parallel IndieGogo campaign and also was running a separate website.

Kickstarter, despite repeated attempts to get their attention that fraud was being committed under the auspices of their site and management, did exactly nothing. F those aholes.

Never again.

...it seems to me this is exactly the reason for export controls.

I don't really think most people hand-enter URLs anymore, or even notice them. Search engines are their entry to the Web, and some browsers default to not even showing URLs in the address bar.

Facts are facts whether checked or not. What they're checking are claims. Whole different kettle of fish.

"Ben Bilemy" as an alias just seems odd. Could be a clue.

A concatenation of nicknames?

Ben = Benjamin
Bil = Bill or William
Emy = Emily

Friends? Siblings? Family?

Apple is deprecating support for print drivers in macOS, pushing the AirPrint and IPP Everywhere protocols. There's a new Printer Working Group.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pwg.org%2F

Older and specialty printers will be a problem for some time, I'm sure.

"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard"
Nice economic model ya got there. It'd be a shame if something were to... ya know... happen to it.

So, they claim rampant election fraud against republican candidates, but block efforts to secure our elections? Funny, that.

Arthur: "What, behind the rabbit?"
Tim: "It IS the rabbit!"

I'll definitely second APL. It's an amazing and elegant language that deserves to be more widely known and understood. It's the first language I remember encountering that uses unusual glyphs.

Shouldn't these people be directing their ire at their own repressive government?

AltiVec is a Freescale Semiconductor trademark. Apple calls it Velocity Engine, IBM and P.A. Semi call it VMX.

And, it's SIMD vector processing tech... hardly merely a marketing buzzword.

A long as these studies don't impact the production of my favorite, peaty single-malt Scotches... damn the environment, I need my Laphroaig, Ardbeg and Caol Ila!

Apple is building a secure platform for average folks. Sounds like a nice product.

If you don't want it, don't buy it. This isn't hard, people.

Omg, a Lexx reference?! You just made my day.