> The point is you don't have to attack Kaliningrad. A siege trivially collapses the place.

This is hilarious as naval blockade by itself is an act of war.

What??? The entire point is that this would happen — in response — to a Russian invasion of the Suwałki gap.

You’re in for a big surprise once you discover what happened after Nuremberg.

The legend was that Celeron 300A CPUs packaged in Malaysia were more overclockable than those packaged in Costa Rica. I specifically hunted down a Malaysian one, and it happily ran at 450 MHz for years.

I remember that as well. The details elude me, but I seem to recall my 300A was running at 464.25mhz on an ABit B7.

I remember installing plain Windows XP at a time when Service Pack 3 had already been released. Since I had only recently gotten cable internet, it didn’t cross my mind to disconnect the network cable, and my PC got owned almost immediately. IIRC, some dialog just popped up as an artifact of a successful penetration, right after the network connection was established - before I even managed to insert the SP3 CD. So it was pretty bad for a while.

OpenJDK isn't a clean room port - it was created from the original source code of Sun's JDK.

A similar thing happened to me - I lent a phone to my mother-in-law and created an account for her. She returned the phone once her own phone was fixed.

A few years passed, and a couple of weeks ago my phone broke, so I wanted to use that one until I bought a new one. It turned out that Apple had permanently deactivated the iCloud account on that phone. I could make calls, but I couldn’t install or update any apps, even though I still controlled the email address that was used to create the Apple account. Not that 5S is very useful these days but still.

Any ideas why blackouts are widespread in Ukraine but not throughout Russia?

They even manage to steal IP before the original inventor actually invents it. Imagine that.

Later, they made Macs with both a physical Esc key and a Touch Bar. It was a bit better, but it still sucked.

Stasi wasn't doing it for the money anyway.

That’s what I mean. This honestly looks more like right-wing elements more than commercial lobbying. Doubly suspicious when the unsubstantiated claim is the bogeyman du jour.

What right wing elements?! Almost all of the EU (both at the EU level and member state level) is dominated by self proclaimed socialist parties or coalitions and has been for decades. The push for spying was always there and immediately became worse right after the Snowden revelations more than a decade ago.

Your comment makes 0 sense.

What if I told you that the far right wants the same.