Over time, calling the customer service line back
  over and over, she would piece together information.
  The name on the account that shipped the product was
  different from the one used on the credit card, she
  discovered, all of which were different from her name
  and address.

How do you think they got your information?

iPhone refuses to load because of full page advertisement

No ad on my desktop browser (Win10/Chrome/Firefox)

Netflix stopped serving It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and now those torrents are really really popular =)

That last part is the worst. Torrent sites rarely just stop uploading a show (unless it’s very old and never became noteworthy)

Google Voice was similarly “updated” over time and is very good anymore

Even HTML5 web capturing works in a similar way. Once you give an site like Discord access to your microphone or screen it can pretty much access it whenever the page is open - granted it will show a little badge on screen by default.

A lot of users got tired of the on-screen badge being on all the time and probably set it to hidden (very easy to do) so not everyone is actually aware of when an HTML5 application is accessing a microphone/camera/screen.

A small aside: on the Mac, Micro Snitch [1] can let you know about any app that accesses the mic or webcam. It can use overlays, notifications, and/or just the systray to indicate that an app is using the mic/webcam. It also has an activity log that can you show past use.

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html

Great when it works, one of the few variants of Linux that sometimes just doesn't like to run on some hardware still.

I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.

While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.

Go was taken by ancient China before that.

maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently

What is the chalkboard software that some mathematics and programming folks use on YouTube or when streaming?

This I think: http://lightboard.info/

It's actually not software at all. They use a glass surface between themselves and the camera with lights piped in the edges of the glass. They then use fluerescent markers to get the bright text effect.

Mirror the video image (or learn to write backwards) and viola.

You mean like Khan Academy? MS Paint. Seriously.

Like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvB-mhkT0w

There are some other ones where the presenter isn't on screen but it's the same software (or looks identical in writing style)

It's hardware, not software :-)

"The lightboard itself is made up of a heavy duty frame, a 3/8” sheet of low iron glass (commercial name starphire,) and a string of LEDs to wrap the edges of the glass to shoot light inward to make the neon markers pop on camera."

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/lightboard-lessons-behind...

Love that he does it in shorts with a formal shirt up top.

They mention they don't preserve "heads" in specific but rather brains, and go into detail about how they can't separate a brain from a skull so they preserve the entire head. Wouldn't separating the head from the body cause similar problems of destroying information in the brain? Do they keep the entire body?

Whole-body preservation has been a more expensive option (and I assume still is, but I haven't been keeping up to date).

Not that I've tried, but I guess detaching a head at the base has less potential to damage than would opening and removing the whole skull.

I know nothing of this field, is there any idea of how long "information" stays in the brain or any metric like that once blood/oxygen flow to the brain has been inhibited?

I found a recent review of cases of people resuscitated from combined hypothermia and cardiac arrest: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030095721...

E.g. people found drowned in icy water with no pulse. "Six of nine survivors (66.7%) had minor neurological sequelae with Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) 5 (low disability)" (the rest worse). It's not clear to me from the table what the longest time with no breathing or pulse was among those six best-off survivors. But here's a popular account of another case: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/child-survived...

Those were the top two google hits that came up. It's not my field, but it doesn't seem plausible to me that much of our identity is encoded in evanescent patterns of electrical activity or such. (As opposed to your short term working memory.) If you can nail down the molecules, the information is bound to be there in their arrangement.