I was the right age when the film first came out in the 70s but lacked interest or the right kind of pocket money, so I never went to see it.

At university, die-hard fansd couldn't believe i'd never seen it so invited me to a VHS all-nighter, but I couldn't stay awake.

Still not sure what accounts for the continuing appeal of a kids' fairytale movie, other than extremely competent marketing.

all sorts of stuff in Saudi is

Part of the problem that an awful lot of non-citizens are needed to support that lifestyle.

> I wonder what happened to him.

he pretended to be a bank man but instead he fried all the money

Exactly! you can pry my Model M (errm actually a Dell-branded clone or lookalike i don't care at this point because I'm used to it!) from my cold dead hands. Gluttons for punishment even got used to a ZX-81 or or similar Apple ca. 2016

in the UK if you're too rich that can be cause for suspicion:

I wish it applied to old money too. But it's just newly-rich crooks really, not royal family etc.

Tech companiers touting some cheap solution to a complicated medical diagnostic procedure that doesn't quite work, and might be dangerous if people take it as read? Surely that never happens?

it would be a "DOS attack". If you can defeat the proof-of-authenicity-token with ease e.g. by warming it up, rubbing it, or dabbing with acetone enough to displace some of the glitter glue, then it becomes worthless and won't be deployed on a wide scale

that makes sense.
Here I use PWA on Fedora (MS Teams, if you must know) and it's using Chrome, while I use Firefox for everything else. EU rules don't forbid any of that.

they weren't the first either... https://xkcd.com/2889/

does _anyone_ still "believe" in crypto, other than "sunk cost" suckers?

you'd need a display that has a couple bits more colour depth than the image sensor in question, and as far as I understand those displays don't exist. High-end Camera sensors now offer 12, 14 or even 16 bits per channel, that is way more than you can expect from any display technology we have, or likely will get, because (other than this application of spoofing image signatures) this kind of technology would be useless and expensive. That said, the technology would only be credible if the audit trail of CA-signed signatures extends right to the sensor chip, and furthermore is of course Free and open-source.

both less and fewer are correct just different semantically

do these battery-swapping vehicles still allow home charging? that kinda doesn't work: either you _own_ the battery and factor in the depreciation of your battery with use, or you _rent_ a battery (effectively the one that first comes with the car is just a "deposit" you pay) and the service provider sells you a number of Watt-hours but has a markup for battery wear. Doing both is problematic

Taiwan has a system like this for scooters, but the swapping is done manually so it's easier. Also Taiwan is less crime-infested than most places, here in UK systems like this would be ruined quickly by scumbags who abuse and vandalise it.

does it still break random bits of software when people edit a text file, by putting an invisible first byte in it to indicate its encoding?