Were it not for the janitor removing the old papers from his garbage can, his cube/office would have been inundated shortly, causing the whole project to fail. I guess we should credit that janitor with creating a computer revolution, too.

Seriously. The guy was one engineer on a computer system and not part of the BASIC team. How the HELL does anyone conclude from that that we "owe him" credit for anything except participating in the design of an obsolete piece of hardware?

And yet for those people who don't know or care about that reputation, it is still the perfectly good browser as the OP said. It shows all the websites they want (so as far as they care it does adhere to the standards) and they are far more likely to get hacked due to social engineering than any browser hack.

Cue the Monty Python skits, 'cause it's all about the spam spam spam spam spam.

Not the content. Not keeping articles current. Not making sure you can share links *outside* Facebook if you so choose.

But spam. Unending, unyielding, inflexible barrages of "advertising".

If they sent out leaflets instead of banner ads, my house would be ceiling deep in the shit, even with AdBlock Plus running.

No, it gathered a clickbait post here, so it is fair bait for ridicule.
I'd never heard of him, nor the company.

If the CEO of my former employer, that operates in sort of the same space, but is probably quite a bit larger, were to pass away...I would not expect to read of his demise in here.
But this particular guy is Facebook related, so Dice must genuflect properly.

I fully commiserate with the family and company. But really?

Society as we know it is over.

Have a nice steak, and maybe hold off on the children, Soylent Geen is our future.

Goodbye...

You, of course, are a dynamo who powered through college, got a job with an amazing start-up, and is on the cutting edge of something.

No? Did I read your resume wrong?

I don't know if it's the cause here, but if you Google for something, obviously Google's entire value model is to sell that info to advertisers. Likewise if you send or receive gmail about something. Then there's also looking it up on WebMD or another site to find the side effects. I would be a lot more suspicious of online activity "leaking" to spammers than a pharmacy selling it.

Snowden *is* trapped in Russia unless he wants to cell-mate with Bradley Manning.

If it were Gates/Jobs/Ellison/Woz/McNealy/Bezos/Dell....OK. That warrants a thread here.
But the CEO of some random online survey company?

Oh wait....Facebook related....gotcha.

Dude was fat and lead a stressful life. Under these conditions, such things happen.

This is not a slight or an insult, it is a statement of fact about the general lifestyle of Americans like myself: Diet, exercise, and stress reduction, unless you want to go at 45, 50 or 60 (and 60 is the new 45) ...

Also, do I get the $7,500 Fed tax credit? Or does that only apply to the original buyer? I don't know either way, but something to investigate before taking the plunge on a used one.

Drivetrain wear. And seat cushions, and pedal surfaces, and all that other stuff that shows wear damage after use.
Yes, they are great cars. But why would I pay $60-70K for a used one, when a new one isn't that much more?

A BMW, $50k new. A few years old, $25k. That works. If that used BMW were $45k...that would NOT work.

If I could afford $70k for a used one, I could afford a new one.

Washington, used P85, 19,000 miles, $79,000.
New P85D, $87,500.
Why would I bother with the used one?

The source is questionable in many ways, and well known to be a Russian government mouthpiece.

But the same material was available elsewhere in German and international media with all the same opinion slants.

Oh jebus. It's not that cut and dried. 15 years ago, a boyfriend of one of my daughters got busted for pot. He was 15 or 16. Black kid, from a far below living wage single mother family. In Redneckistan Virginia.
You know what happened to him? The cop brought him to my house (mom was out of town, I think). "Sir...would you take responsibility for this dude?" 'Yeah, I guess'. The cop then drove off. No lawyer, no PD, no court, no actual charges.

But no. The collective /. mind believes that anyone not fully monied and lawyered up automatically gets gets the full sentence in PMITA prison.

Actual life doesn't work like that.

The boyfriend got the 'dad speech' from me ("you dumbass"), but I don't think it stuck. He remained a dumbass.


For this kid....lighting fire to the computer lab is a pretty serious deal. There is only so much a lawyer can do for you. But I suspect if this a first offense....probation.