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• David L commented on The internet of decay
  Missed a "T" on that copy/paste. Anyway, impeachment will likely not happen unless DT shoots someone in the Oval Office in front of witnesses. Otherwise the hard core R's would vote out half or more of the R's in the house if they let an impeachment go forward. A more likely path is the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the...
• David L commented on The internet of decay
  Nuts. Forgot that formatting tags here end with a paragraph. There are two paragraphs to the quoted text....
• Henry Troup commented on The internet of decay
  My first read of this thread was while (slowly!) backing up my BlackBerry to a VM running Windows XP, because that's what the accessory software runs on, not anything later that I still have. The BlackBerry is a near orphan device now, even though I have a relatively recent one. It will run Android apps ... but only easily from the Amazon store which seems to be smaller and less interesting than others. So from my point of view, there's already significant decay. (One of my first encounters with this kind of decay was when I found that Internet Explorer...
• Robert Prior commented on The internet of decay
  That brings back memories…...
• Michael R. Bernstein commented on The internet of decay
  Exuse me while I go pursue my financial ruin and personal misery (I don't enjoy doing code to that standard!) It may be less painful than you think, programming languages that automate more of the correctness and correctness-checking to eliminate entire classes of bugs such as buffer overflows are gaining in popularity (Erlang, Rust, etc.), and developers are already using them to write replacement low-level system components as well as high-level applications and systems....