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Correct. According to SJWs, straight white men are guilty until they're proven innocent, and even afterwards, they're still guilty somehow.

You can never please SJWs, no matter how much you bend backwards. They'll always find something to complain about. That's the meaning of their entire existence. That's what you're missing.

So they were leeching money and resources from GitHub, and using them in a sexist manner, and they're not going to do that anymore?

That'll show 'em!

> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum.

Not exactly. Messenger has been End-of-Lifed except on Windows 2000 (in all territories) and in China (on all platforms). On any other platform or territory, your login is refused and you're told to upgrade to Skype.

It is technically possible to block the IP ranges of reading/caching web apps, as well as refusing to show content to readers blocking ads, but few providers bother. Neither usage scenario is practiced widely enough to significantly impact ad income, except on sites that serve a very tech-proficient userbase.

You can do the same thing for free with various browser extensions, of course, but then again, you can filter ads with browser extensions, too, and that's the only or major benefit that a lot of sites offer you as a reward for subscribing.

One should think of this less as a sale of services and more as willing patronage of the arts.

It serves a technical purpose just as much as their ego. It makes it possible to search for someone with a specific make and/or model of product in order to ask for help or recommendations, or gauge someone's expertise/seniority/subfocus within the forum's focus during a discussion.

I like the open source angle. Good differentiator.

The "magic" explanation doesn't satisfy me. Any physicists in the crowd who can explain why rotating the film 90 degrees creates a negative display?

I very much doubt that any business except the smallest mom-and-pop store could run entirely on Chromebooks. Certainly no IT business could run on them.

So use a feature phone. They still make them by the billions.

sidereel.com is one of the oldest web apps with this feature.

This doesn't explain identical behavior by all later devs. The most reasonable explanation is a common cause.

You're overestimating TorrentFreak's commitment to investigative journalism.

Heartbeats are not logged on a standard configuration, so if people other than the confirmed parties independently discovered the vulnerability, told nobody (or at least nobody who would tell anybody), and then exploited it on systems where heartbeats are not logged (which would be most of them), then how could anyone possibly know?

The claim of Ada Lovelace being the first programmer rubs me the wrong way. Obviously, Babbage would know how to program his own computer. He designed the damn thing.

This is not claiming to be a complete list of who knew what when. It is only a list of confirmed cases.

Or they straight out lied.

Wouldn't be the first time.

As a counterpoint (and believe me, I take no pleasure in defending Jobs here) it would probably have been illegal to ban donut sales only to the obese.

He paid attention, just the wrong kind of attention -- crackpot cuckoo crazy alternative medicine attention. If he had received the recommended surgery immediately upon the initial diagnosis, he very likely would still have been alive.

Self-signed certs are OK in every scenario that HTTP would be OK, and then some.

It's more than a decade old. Not exactly news.

My favorite is 42 Goals.

If this is meant primarily against Turkish censorship (assumption motivated by the Turkish translation on the site) you should know that Turkey bans more than 40 thousand websites. Twitter and YouTube have just been two recent high profile bans.

Here's a full list:

http://engelliweb.com/

The site is not a government resource. It's being run by volunteers who track the bans. I'm sure they'd be happy to send you the data in the format of your choice if you contact them.

http://engelliweb.com/iletisim/