But the public mass doesn't really follow the "adventures" of this idiot like we /. readers are forced to.

Forced to? You were required by the Slashdot license to click on the link to this story? Wow, the terms of service for your account really suck. I'm glad I got a lower account number. I didn't have to click through a TOS page like that when I signed up on this account.

Peter Norton has been dead for decades. He was inadvertently killed the day that they slapped a big piece of glass over him (similar to the cover glass in a microscope slide) to make a fresh Peter Norton(tm) bitmap for the new packaging.

Wireless is so cool. I was at a thrift shop recently and I found a wireless radio and it was only a few dollars. It says on the outside that it only has six transistors in it.

They have really shiney file cabinets at the company that produces file cabinets. Their file clerks rate very high on the jobs satisfaction scores, too.

It would be nice if we could get everybody else educated about the importance of file clerks and data custodians. And that nice gray crackle finish on the filing cabinets.

Webmail?

pop.google.com works great for me. I never even see any ads.

No browser properly implements the Markup Language. Further, too many people think they are 'developers' because they coded some little scripts inside the marked up document. Or some big ugly script, frighteningly.

No, it depends on the killed pedestrians surviving friends and relatives making sure that everybody knows not to walk along the road. Or for crews of said pedestrians to start littering the sides of the road with cinder blocks. Either measure takes one or two generations at most. The scrap metal from the wrecks will become a motivation for pedestrians to linger alongside the road, even. Now that F-150s are made of mostly aluminum a wreck involving one of them will be quickly cleaned up by scavengers.

They're the first person to even mention Apple, which is refreshing.

He thought he was being 'the hero' would would face The Man down. But the deal worked out differently. And in the end he's ended up getting more attention by his death.

People his age think in terms of Absolute because righteous Adventurism is highly rewarding, and they really don't have big stakes in anything that matters.

The consumer economics class I took in High School was where I learned about loans, taxes, and my household budget. Do they not teach courses like that in High School any longer?

I find it easier just to avoid people who think that 'programmers' are trained at MIT.

If you go in with the plan of utilizing the resources, the professors with years or decades of experience, the research labs, etc, those things can really pay off if you will work with them.

If you go in with that attitude, your fellow students, and likely most of the faculty, will hate you, because you'll be the one in lecture who asks questions that won't be on Friday's test.

You want the vegan, not the dude who lived on potato chips and Taco Bell.

Or did you really mean 1960s-style crotchety nasty old crappy electronics with 2N2222 and SCRs and diodes and neon lamps?

It's okay to be afraid of something you don't understand anymore (for some reason.) It's not okay, however, to spatter the piss running down your leg all over it. Go ahead and stick to slapping together the modules that the marketing reps from the parts dealers tell you will do the job right. Your boss is probably stupid enough to buy into it. Glue the whole mess together with some DSP software. We're impressed.

Saving money is: a dual op-amp design that costs a quarter cent instead of using a microcontroller that costs eight cents.

You'd be amazed at the quality of the parts that went into 60's high end test gear. Let's just say that in that era the Asians were busily focused on making shitty six-transistor AM radios. Not counterfeiting shitty electrolyte into caps that went into any equipment that mattered. The calibration in, for example, my Fluke Differential Voltmeter is rock solid. Can't say that for any newer gear where the 'calibration' is some battery backed-up RAM block.

The calibration cost for older Tek gear and plugins can be frightening, though. Because there are tweaks for everything. So a high three figure calibration bill for a high frequency differential plug-in is to be expected. But the stuff just sits there with the tweak points solidly in place, so it really doesn't go out of spec very fast.