You're assuming I don't work for the government.

I can neither confirm nor deny why I use we in referring to actions taken in prior decades.

actually, when you buy in bulk TBs are cheap, and mem prices drop, especially when you have 100 GB/s pipes

Mostly yes. It depowers the cell and wireless circuits, which is why it gives you longer battery life.

Assuming there isn't something running on the device level that wakes up the wireless or cell circuits for an ID ping every so often.

Not true.

The basis of triangulation is you get pings on multiple cell tower logs, it decides which cell tower serves you, but you show up in all of the traces.

With three or more point sources it's fairly easy to pinpoint your location, and when you turn on Bluetooth and wireless we get additional data that allows us to locate even your elevation.

And there's more, but I'm not supposed to talk about what we can do to your actual phone.

Now, in my day, we got root in the core admin servers and we used it.

Seriously, amateurs.

The concept that we don't track you illegally worldwide is a wonderful fairy tale, but we do track you.

Now stop using it in the bathroom. That's just gross.

Yeah, cause they want us to be serfs in a backwards nation where people can't even run at 1 GB/s while the other first world nations run at 100 GB/s.

Yeah, that works.

Not.

Not exactly - that is worse.

It's more like give the individual cells a fever. Specifically if you can target the out of control cancer cells. The runaway machinery apparently can't cope with being too far outside normal operating range, whereas healthy cells, for the most part, can.

There was a seminar by one of the scientists who was visiting the UW about evolutionary biology and the implications on viral load and parasites, which pointed out that, even as we reduce specific infestations, other infestations end up replacing them, if we don't alter the polluted water and food sources that created them in the first place.

So I'd say that it is a moving target. Even when we come up with malarial or TB drugs, we still fail to alter the underlying living conditions which create the risk factors in the first place.

No.

You have to have sex first.

Smoking is for after.

A lot of people obsess over making new wheels. They'd be far better off it they wrote a decent object library to do wheels once, maintain it, and spend far more time getting the engine to push the wheel.

Wheels are wheels. You don't need to make a new one every time, unless you're writing the core Wheel program. Spend your time on the stuff that matters, not the inner mechanisms of the windshield washing blade, use someone else's windshield washing blade.

Don't forget the other part:

If it doesn't work, throw it out and start over from scratch.

You've already done the thinking, and the errors will be much more obvious.

At least you don't have meetings.

Meetings are a giant time suck.

Mind you, I learned how to code back in the days when CP/M ruled the universe.