How on Earth is this marked troll? Are you all so conditioned in the US to working every working hour that any attempt at balancing things out is seen as bad? This post is bang on the money.

Amazon will ask for the thing back if it has any significant value. They package these returns up in huge pallet boxes and sell them off. Third-party companies then process the contents of these boxes and post each item on eBay or distribute at flea markets and junk stores.

Yeah, it's easy to forget just how freaking EXPENSIVE computer stuff was back then.

My Atari 400 was GBP350 and the 48K upgrade another GBP100 then GBP350 again for the disk drive back when my take home pay was GBP150 a month. I had multiple loans running in parallel to buy all the stuff.

Elite was great but that was hardly unknown back then. The Atari 800 (1979) had display lists (and later Amiga with Copper Lists) that allowed you to change graphics mode or colours on any scan line, hence so many Atari games having scrolling rainbows from top to bottom. You could also define different scrolling regions via display lists so different sections of the screen scrolled in different directions.

Reminds me of similar tricks with Atari basic. A number took I think 2 bytes whereas a variable was 1 so any number appearing more than once got converted leaving reams of lines like Dim n1=1 total = total + n1 It also worked with gosubs so you could have gosub g1000

Theft vs. unauthorized use depends on intent. If the perpetrator was just driving the car around, that's the unauthorized use. If the person was planning to chop it up and sell the parts, that's theft. Part of the distinction depends on whether the result would deprive the owner of the car permanently.

I would expect this charge to be lowered to "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle" as there is no evidence the person was trying to do more than joyride the car. Even that charge will be difficult to prosecute as the word "use" would normally entail a certain amount of control of the vehicle.

A couple ways to defend either charge.

• Abandoned vehicle blocking traffic. The individual was attempting to clear the public thoroughfare.
• This is a taxi, yet there is no clear marking which seat the customer is expected to occupy.

Oh, dear. Is it too late to adopt the Clipper chip?

I've never heard of an Amazon aggregator and now I've read up on it, I still don't get the point, let alone why investors would throw money at it.

Reminds me of when a developer bought an ice factory downtown in order to build condos. After closing the ice factory down, they left the property vacant for like 10 years while it appreciated in value. When they eventually put it on the market to sell to another developer to buy it and actually follow through and build condos, people were like, "Yay! At least condos would make use of that space that isn't being used."

Back in the 80s a UK bank experimented with signature verification by recording the sound of the pen movements on the paper as that was harder to replicate by a fraudster vs just being able to recreate the signature after a bit of practice.

Pretty sure that outside some right wing wingnuts who like waving flags and screaming about patriotism, Brexit was a very clear message to everyone that leaving the EU was an incredibly bad idea. The benefits hugely outweigh the negatives.

Yes, this example you have provided is the use case the nVidia RTX chat tool will satisfy. The LLM can interact with you regarding the local docs you have loaded. All locally without submitting your content to a cloud vendor.

Their disinformation blitz worked for Brexit. I'd be surprised if they didn't try again and again to break up any significant blocs that might provide a pushback to their aggressive expansion plans.

DSL has always been a derivative of Knoppix. In 2008, one of the DSL community members, Robert Shingledecker, had a falling out with the others and started Tiny Core Linux, which expanded support across hardware architectures to ARM and run on raspberry pi systems in addition to X86 / X86-64. TCL has been in development consistently since the 2008 split. DSL fell to the wayside from 2008 until seeing it get picked up this year.

Knoppix has abandoned the CDROM scale and is exclusively a DVD img release now. With the availability of USB flash drives, this makes a lot of sense. The live distro can boot from its static files, but utilize a writeable home directory on a separate partition on the flash drive thereby maintaining data across restarts.