I do this also as I have now had two books over the last two years get pulled by the publishers and taken out of my Kindle library, so I would be unable to redownload them or access them. The majority of the books I've bought are still there, but for the few that do not I always remove the DRM and back them up. In this manner I can also use them across all of my devices, some that Amazon Kindle doesn't support.

I'd happily upgrade to Windows 11 if they want to give me the funds to upgrade my hardware.

It's not the volts you have to watch out for. When you touch that metal chair and get a nice little static zip, that's a few thousand volts. It's the amperage you have to worry about. A person can be killed with as little as 0.1amps, though generally you need 0.5 to 0.75amps to really do the job. A hybrid battery for, say the Prius, is 6.5 - 8.0amps. A jolt from that and your heart is going to be over with pretty quickly.

Way to make me feel bad, now I need to go out and buy something.

It would seem to me that such a warrant could be challenged on the basis of it being overly broad. Just as law enforcement can't get a warrant to search every car in a mall parking lot for single shoplifter I would think one could argue search an entire DNA base for a single person is a similarly overly broad warrant.

I'm not fully versed on how this works, but I believe in most cases with Apple and Android the app itself does not use your credit card or collect the info, but rather you give it permission to bill the credit card you have attached to the store (iTunes or Google Play). Sometimes it's permission for a one time charge, sometimes for a recurring one. So if you gave an app permission to charge, depending on what permissions you gave it, it could easily charge your card for another app, or possibly even pass those permissions on to another app (not sure about that one though). In general I do not have a credit card attached to either my iTunes store or my Google Play Store and just don't get apps that cost money. If on the rare times I do want a paid app, I will attach a specific low limit card I have for online purchases, make my purchase, then remove the card from the system after the expected charge has gone through. In the past I had left my card attached to the Google Play store, but on at least a couple occasions, had fraudulent charges come through the attached card.

Thank you, you are correct. I read through too quickly and my entire comment is actually wrong. So everyone, please ignore the random noise I have generated.

I think that the FCC is arguing that the court does not have any authority to impose net neutrality rules, not that the FCC doesn't have it. The FCC basically removed the net neutrality rules and California returned them. The case before the court is whether California can or can't do that. The FCC has said that the court doesn't have the authority to make that decision.

Yeah, I tried a few, but even then some of them had a hard time. Slowing a modern i7 processor to the speed of an 8MHz 286 is in the tiniest fraction of 1 percent of the host processors speed.

There is an old game I loved called Ancient Art of War at Sea. Played it on an old 286 with a CGA graphics card. I found it once on an abandoned-ware site. Thought awesome, I can play it again. Yeah, about that, it loaded and ran, but as soon as I clicked start it was over and I lost. The game used the CPU cycle timer and not the actual clock timer for turns. Computers are a bit faster now. So I can't play that game anymore (yes I know there is slowing software). Computers improve and change quite fast compared to other industries. I KNOW that what I buy now may not work in a year, or may not work well, on new systems. If I buy something with an online DRM system I also know that if that system stops, so does my software. It's why I avoid buying that type of software if possible (it's becoming harder though with things moving to software as a service). While I think it would be great if Steam could have a way of releasing those games to continue playing without upgrading the OS, or even provide some time of emulator sand box, anyone who wasn't aware that there lifespan was limited when they bought them, especially with the verification systems being used, was living in a fantasy world. If you wanted to keep that old computer and run that game forever you better have made sure when you bought it that it could stand alone. Just my two cents.

I believe the quote you are looking for is this one: "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance." -- David Mamet

Being caught or not does not effect the definition of legality, however, it certainly does have a strong correlation to the legal consequences that may arise.

I also need to learn how to spell interprete.

There is an argument that the Supremacy Clause only applies to specific Constitutionally mandated powers, and that anything else, is left to the states. The Supremacy Clause says - "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof. ..." One could interupt that to say the clause only applies to laws in pursuance of the Constitution and therefore leaves the 10th Ammendment ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.") in play for anything else, even in the case of a conflict. However, I wouldn't be suprised if the Supreme Court has at one time or another already weighed in on such a reading of the law and the effects of the 10th Ammendment on it. I didn't research it that far.

I'd rather have this bottle in front of me then a frontal lobotomy...