Let’s not kid ourselves, they knew exactly what they were doing. They were hoping people would just hang up and give up. This would save money in the short term but lose money in the long term but that’s what you get when the current quarter is all that matters.

Anyway my experience with HP has taught me to never buy their products ever again.

> Let’s not kid ourselves, they knew exactly what they were doing.

Not at all, they say they’re “always looking for ways to improve customer experience” and just wanted to “encourage people to self solve” to increase customer satisfaction. /s

Those cops are the epitome of the term “cry bully”.

I have been listening to John since I discovered him on “This Week In Tech” and I enjoyed his show “Cranky Geeks” while it was running. I hope he gets well and has a fast recovery!

I think Firefox’s “shift + right click” to bypass context menu blocking should be adopted by all browsers.

Yeah, it's one of those features where after getting used to it you just can't understand why not every browser has it. I remember trying to copy an image from OneNote and conveniently in the custom content menu there is a button to copy the image. The only thing it does however is tell you it doesn't work and to use Cmd+C instead, which doesn't work either. So Shift + Right Click saves the day again.

Why would it be in my interest?

This is troubling because I also left namecheap for porkbun some years ago. While porkbun is good I am willing to move my 50+ domains to a worthy alternative when the time comes, however for now I’m going to wait and see how this story unfolds.

Also what are some good alternatives to porkbun?

Yea but doing that would decrease engagement and engagement is the only metric that matters! /s

You forgot an important part of Steve Jobs journey; having a genius friend that you can deceptively take advantage of.

He did treat Woz terribly in many ways, but without SteveJ, Woz's inventions would never have found the audience they did. I think Woz is OK with how things turned out.

I can understand, I’ve had some awful bicycle accidents while not wearing a helmet and the helmet would have made no difference. My knees, hands and elbows have been through a lot but I have never hit my head. Even while skateboarding the one time I hit my head a helmet would not have helped. In hindsight I should have worn knee pads a lot more often but then I wouldn’t be able to tell if it’s gonna rain or not from the feeling in one of my knees :)

However if I had to ride on a public road with cars zooming pass me recklessly I would absolutely wear a helmet on a bicycle.

And there are countries where everyone rides a bike, and they are not usually the ones with mandatory helmets. When you hit someone with a bike you are less likely to kill them than when you hit them with a car, so more bike riding means less deaths, without even considering the effects of air pollution.

Helmets are fine for sport riding, but inconvenient if you want to ride 5 minutes to the shops on a whim. And that kind of riding is usually less intense and safer, I presume, anyway. Football has helmets, walking doesn't.

Those countries also have a higher number of brain injury cases vs countries where people wear helmets.

If you are hit by a car a helmet will do approximately nothing. However there are a lot of accidents that happen where you are not hit by a car where a helmet will help. (and even more when knee and elbow pads are what you need)

What if you're hit by a bike instead of a car because someone took the bike instead of the car?

A helmet can make a big difference in saving your brain if you are hit by a bike. Or if you hit a slippery spot and fall off your bike. Or - hundreds of other things that happen.

cars are too big and heavy for a helmet to make a difference - but they are not all that can go wrong. Even in car heavy US there is more than a car that can harm you.

Got it — helmets should be mandatory for pedestrians, in case they are hit by bikes.

Well unironically you would be safer if you did that! Although it's a trade off between looking ridiculous and being safe. I personally don't think bike helmets should be mandatory because it puts people off riding a bike (including me), but do acknowledge that they do make an individual safer.

I’m going to assume that they are encrypted especially for military purposes so unless they can crack the encryption it’s useless.