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It isn't the install. It is the updates - and the potential for future backwards incompatible updates.

FLOSS software needs hosted, supported, reasonably priced versions with security updates to be competitive.

Worth a thought. How does desktop software achieve backwards compatibility? For example Libreoffice can work with arbitrary datastores from the 1990's. Meanwhile with modern web based software we struggle to maintain compatibility within a single datastore.

I'm not sure that brick buildings in London get pressure washed very often - if ever.

Can you really do a legal review from a CI platform?

Because it involves inherently manual processes.

Every child deserves a birthday cake... Every married couple deserve a wedding cake... We use cake to celebrate important life events that every member of society has the right to enjoy.

> Cake is a made up drug.

I know that I am not supposed to comment on upvotes but I wish I could upvote this more than once. The world needs more of this series.

Normally the rules are pretty good but there are some cracks.

Google Jaffa Cakes and VAT...

TLDR cake is a basic food whilst chocolate biscuits (cookies to Americans) are luxuries.

Itunes for example is DRM free.

> I wish somebody would have simply advised him not to speak on such matters because nothing good could become of it. Maybe he needed a PR manager. That sounds awful, but apparently this is what the world wants: carefully filtered speech that doesn't stray far from what people already agree with.

The world needs everyone to speak about every topic. If we all self censor then only the extremists will be speaking.

> fortunately you tend to get a few months' warning before a baby appears in your life

Yes but the baby can come anytime within a period of about a five weeks and be within the "normal" period. You need an understanding employer to take two weeks holiday "sometime in the next 5 weeks".

OTH the father had to until this year go back to work the next day...

Depends on the standard of proof that is required.

Then it is a police matter...

> Data centers are basically bunkers and there is a tremendous amount of replication occurring.

All encrypted at rest. Lose those keys and the data is gone...

A web view is a client.

Why does every newspaper refer to "alleged" etc until a verdict is reached?

You can decide whatever you like about whoever you like. Inside your head you are truly free to judge whomever you want however you want.

You may be found to have defamed someone if you go around stating your opinions as facts and the court disagrees that they are facts.

Hence only 3 minutes of content per click...

I write lots of code and I love the auto-formatter...

I especially love it when working on a project with a few different developers that used an auto-formatter.

People will piss around whatever tools they use...

More that Java is a platform.

You target the JVM. So Java libraries are awkward to call from e.g. C++ or Python.

Me too but it's not been released in ALGOL 68 either!

Upgrade. Or accept that you are using a dead language.

Have you ever seen someone with poor eyesight use a smart phone?

Does anyone else hate when someone assumes their screenwidth and hard wraps at 72 characters?

> Low-background steel is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. With the Trinity test and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and then subsequent nuclear weapons testing during the early years of the Cold War, background radiation levels increased across the world. Modern steel is contaminated with radionuclides because its production uses atmospheric air. Low-background steel is so-called because it does not suffer from such nuclear contamination. This steel is used in devices that require the highest sensitivity for detecting radionuclides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

We did it in the late 90's/early 2000's as well.

I hope they still do it but I guess they don't.

For autocratic countries this is not even a viable question to start considering.

For democracies there might be some consideration. But then you need to know how the individual people voted.

EDIT: Also you need to consider whether the politicians actually had the acts on their manifestos.

I notice that doubleclick won't serve to Iran. A very small silver lining to the huge black cloud of sanctions...

One could say a lot of the same things about the USA or UK or Israel (especially Israel with their ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine).