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I'm not familiar with BeOS at all, but this response feels like cheating. It redefines the question entirely in terms of BeOS's possible advantages over a theoretical, zero-overhead ideal system (which of course there are none), and then pretends that Windows ca. the mid-late 1990s was that...

"Comments sections"? In ca. 2000? Were (integrated) "comments sections" even a thing then? Maybe just beginning to pop up, but I recall more "discussion forums" at that stage. But Tao being conceptually close to Java doesn't really invalidate the point about nobody understanding it. Almost...

I like how they made "We will send you An AmigaOne" sound vaguely like a threat, in your GMail tab. It may not be the most amazingly modern system in existence, but it's hardly cement shoes. I made the leap to UNIX once I got to college and was exposed to it. (Exactly what they warned us about...

Must be a few years old, yeah. And it doesn't include the non-AT&T / "Baby Bell" phone companies that have also been swallowed up. Southern New England Telephone (SNET), for instance [...] is on there, I'm wrong. Never mind. (Edited.)

*renege (...Sorry. It's a sickness.) My Cablevision internet-only bill is similarly $59.95/month every month, with no taxes or fees. That part's great. I liked it better when I signed up and it was $49.95/month, but two $5/month rate increases since then gave me the choice between ponying up...

For a second I thought you were referring to Jayne, and I was thinking, "So? Brutal violence is pretty much his go-to." Especially if you make fun of his hat.

I'm actually sympathetic to the argument that disclosure of detailed network performance characteristics is burdensome to the ISPs. As the repeal order justifies: But the thing that really irks me, and that I can't get past, is dropping point-of-sale disclosure of all pricing details, including...

A few have. Most notably, off the top of my head, would be Adobe, with Creative Cloud. Conveying "you don't own this software" is kind of a necessary hurdle to the SaaS model, since it's hard to convince someone to pay you a monthly subscription fee to use something they think they own. For the...

Only if they also filter out all of the strawman arguments regarding what types of comments are deemed valid to be part of the discussion. ...Wait, but then we wouldn't get to see yours.

jdale mentioned using Insteon switches, which their product page says are app-configurable (I guess you'd need the Insteon Hub, too?) with a dimming Ramp Rate of up to 8 minutes. ETA: Heh, whoops. Ships in the night.

It hasn't improved much. Issues with LED dimming at low levels and "ignition" point are so prevalent that basically every lighting manufacturer devotes a portion of their FAQ space just to covering those issues. Lutron hosts several pages of information just on the topic of dimming issues with...

I'm gonna need you to go ahead and get snarkier about the mesh-network 'sekurritay'.

"Reflected Ceiling Plan". So named because it's drawn looking downwards (as if the ceiling was reflected in a mirror laid on the floor), not because it's shiny. Though I suppose "reflective ceiling plan" is rather amusingly Freudian, in a lighting article.

Really? I didn't realize it was a question of honor to protect our government from itself. You sanctimonious twat. Look, you worked for the government, that's great. And, thank you for your service. But the rest of us didn't, and it is not "dishonorable" that we approach dealing with said...

We are not amused!

If this is accurate (and I have every reason to assume that it is, since I both (a) inherently mistrust and (b) don't run Microsoft's OSen, so I'm comfortable treating them as a hostile witness), then this information all adds up to a pretty perverse situation Microsoft's created for themselves...

What universe do you live in? (Or, was this bad parody? If so, I refuse to apologize because WOW was it bad parody.) On any sane site those password-change systems are totally automated, and since web servers don't have feelings there's nobody who could possibly be "annoyed" by password-reset...

Eh, it really appears to be just a standard tumblr blog (behind a custom domain), which severely limits its malware potential. The links here miiight be spam, I suppose, but considering how out-of-date the site is I'd be a bit surprised if they're bothering with spambots.

Man, the only action I ever saw was spending six years on USENET in the early-mid 1990s. Though... come to think of it, I do still wake up screaming from time to time, remembering those flamewars.

Like my raincoat!