I do if I can raise the laptop up so that the screen is where it should be for good ergonomics.

I feel this article is looking at a bit of silver as if it's the lining and writing an article about the cloud.

Definitely there's less knowledge about how computers work nowadays: e.g. universities now have to teach Computer Science students how file systems and directories work, because kids are used to saving everything in the default folder and just searching for what they want (and we're talking to those geeky enough to be doing CS).

But there's more complexity now, and a lot of that stuff is just irrelevant busy work. I remember juggling IRQ lines when installing hardware but luckily that's auto-configured now. I used to create boot discs and eke out enough memory by skipping the better graphics, mouse driver, etc when not needed but did that teach me much?

On the other hand, we used to have LAN parties as teenagers and would rebuild the networking stack for each game, including some performance tweaks (“Red Alert needs NetBIOS over IPX, right?” “Yeah, but disable the turbo encabulator”) and ¾ of us went on to do CS at uni. We certainly never thought of a web browser as “the internet” and we're confident to explore knowing we could fix what we broke (and did, often).

Makes sense - the article says it's just a regular piece of plastic, but it's printed and clearly isn't just a copy (unless you can photocopy onto plastic?)

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, ~~bug~~, er ~~poorly documented feature~~... user error

Gotta love the Register

You're forgetting about security updates, which would also be blocked. It's definitely more of a problem if the whole of Mozilla gets blocked than some plugins that have workarounds and alternatives.

One place I worked had a small park, so sometimes I'd go for a lap or two to think something through - the fresh air, mild exercise, change of scenery and lack of distractions wroked wonders.

He's one of my main recommendations for anyone even vaguely interested in sci-fi. Sad news.

This story is found in various credible places, including Reuters: Three US troops killed, up to 34 injured in Jordan drone strike linked to Iran

Good question. The documentation says:

On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

which doesn't really back me up.

My downvote principle was meant more generally - most places that have a downvote policy say that it's not meant for shouting down people you disagree with, since that's not conducive for civil and nuanced conversations.

It probably is, if even established names like Sports Illustrated are doing it then these random little sites definitely won't think twice.

That's really clever, although I'm not surprised to hear that the pipe tends to ice up.

Reminds me of all those countries claiming to be democratic in their name like Democratic Republic of the Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea), etc.