americanism, like color instead of colour.

sskay, ther'l ollways be vodka

Exactly. This nonsense will continue for some time and eventually it will implode. Just a matter of time. Unfortunately (US) companies don't seem to have much of a choice...

'coz your snot is icky, ok? sars, plague, God knows what's in your snot. then it dries, and has to be peeled off, etc. no, no. you can keep your snot-encrusted ipad.

Our overlords don't rape, they probe.

You made me go all misty eyed there, old man. I remember disassembling mine so I could spray paint the case... soldered in a pulse switch on GND+RESET line so I could do a hard-reset by hitting that special button (lockups were common if you enjoyed machine language programming...).

I remember sitting in school class pretending to read from a schoolbook all the while studying my copy of Commodore 64 Programmer's Guide (I still have it).

I remember walking about 30km (return) as a 16yo to fetch my copies of aforementioned volume and Inside The Commodore 64 (Milton Bathurst) from the post office.

I remember tinkering with undocumented assembly opcodes to see what they would do (gleaned from Compute! magazine, remember that one?)... and of course the countless months of my life I must have spent typing in machine code numbers for various apps/games/utils.

I remember being able to scroll the screen left by 1 pixel for the first time (think gaming). Moving sprites around (the usual bird-flapping animation).

I remember the wonderful toe-curling rush of dopamine when it finally dawned on me how indirect addressing worked in machine language.

I think PEEK and POKE are still the fastest words I can type on a keyboard, and I still can't forget that the safest area of memory starts at $C000 (4k worth) - otherwise known as 49152 for mere mortals. ...oh and 53281/0 for the bg/border colours, IIRC. My daily routine was: switch on, wait for boot to finish (~1-2s), poke 53281,0:poke 53280,0 followed by a clear screen ... or something like that. I liked a clean slate and a screen that looked bigger than what it was. I also always changed the font colour to green since the movies proved that green on black was the optimal colour... lol

w00t!

Exactly. Similarly, I also have to laugh at folks who blame sendmail for x, y or z problem they are experiencing with their mail.

Systems like Apache, Sendmail, GNU C, glibc, et al, are rock solid and reliable for a reason. Maturity.

/bounces with excitement
ah, fuckit, never mind.

You're a fucking idiot.

mkay

That's beautiful man! Thanks for making my day.

my dick got 69% longer in just 3 short strokes.

There, fixed that for you.

just wow.

Can you imagine that kind of information being accessible by dictators, religious groups, Dick Cheney, corporations, governments, fraudsters, criminals, someone with an axe to grind, the Taliban, your asshole neighbour, etc.

Considering the profoundly damaging issues of erosion/invasion of privacy and identity theft occurring ever more frequently, the post above is, well, surprising.

Google as a corporation is considered a trustworthy intermediary by most users and health care professionals

lol, you poor naive little baby, you.

That's typically to maximise ad exposure to fund the website.

It's a brave new world out there, ads an' all.

Known for releasing the worlds first intestinal worm.

There, fixed that for ya.