Thanks, I see what you mean. It is pretty much like typical cable/dsl modems look nowadays.

I don't recall encountering those although I would replicate the functionality by connecting the modem with a serial cable to a linux router. I pretty much always used a linux router from the start. Even nowadays, I always have the "ethernet" cable/dsl whatever modem in pass-trough mode to the Linux router through an RJ45 connector.

I remember setting rules on linux routers for the following use case you described, those were on coaxial ethernet :-)
" because once a computer thinks it has an always-on network connection it tends to try making remote connections for all sorts of things unless you lock it down. So the modem was always connected pretty much. This isn't practical when you don't have a dedicated phone line for it and even then many ISPs had systems set up to not allow you to keep connections on constantly like that"

Sorry to ask, what the heck is an ethernet dial-up modem??

ISDN? Does ppp over a voice line modem qualifies also? pppoe + dsl ??

I am puzzled...

Haha, I have never been so nasty but I fooled around a little I have to admit.

In IT classes, we had like 20-30 work stations running SunOS with X. I would set my display to another student station,
DISPLAY=other_student_ip ; export DISPLAY
wait until the teacher comes to his station then launch netscape with a porn site target URL. I had good laughs back then. Student would usually try to close the netscape windows while the teacher would give him a suspicious look maybe thinking it was already open and minimized and that the student had just maximized the window by mistake. I could have got caught easily I assume if he left it running and instead investigated where that window was coming but I didn't risk much getting caught.

Also, X allowed you to get the keys typed on any station and steal login credentials then access other student accounts.

Some stupid student had pictures of himself naked with his gay friend in his University home folder! ;-)

Back then the laws weren't very clear about such activities as long as you didn't tamper the data, steal it for your own use, use it to blackmail somebody, try to get money or other advantages from it, etc. so I stayed on the safe side and only looked around although I was tempted to post the gay guys pictures somewhere public. Like today, I must have already been some kind of a white hat since I didn't and didn't mention it to anybody either.

Cast a Critical Vote for Scottish Independence, and Fight for Socialist Revolution to Bring Down the Monarchy, NATO and the Rule of Capital
For a Scottish Workers Republic in a Socialist Federation of the British Isles

http://www.internationalist.org/scottishworkersrepublic1409.html

On September 18, voters in Scotland will go to the polls in a referendum on the question of independence from the “United Kingdom.” All three major parties in Britain’s Westminster parliament complacently figured they would win by warning of dire economic consequences. But the threats have backfired and support for secession has grown in recent weeks to the point where it could win, or come close. The bourgeois Scottish National Party is promising a rosy future in a Scandinavian-style welfare state, but the economic realities of the capitalist world market would soon undo that. Most of the opportunist left is tailing after the SNP, while some British left groups oppose Scottish independence out of Labour loyalism. For revolutionary Marxists, this is an opportunity to accelerate the breakup of decrepit British imperialism, and to get the national question off the agenda so the class confrontation can come to the fore. While warning against illusions in the prospects of a capitalist Scotland, the League for the Fourth International calls for a critical “yes” vote for independence as part of a fight for workers revolution throughout the British Isles and Europe.

Maybe they did predict an increase of sea ice (which this is), but you just conveniently ignore that part of it? Or perhaps you never even heard of it, because your favorite climate denial blog didn't bother mentioning that part?

And that's exactly what 9 is all about fixing.

The real irony here is that, in the meantime, Microsoft has open sourced the entirety of C# and VB.NET compilers.

Rust does not have similar goals at all. Rust aims to be the 21st century C++, with a sane design that ditches back-compat with C and adds safety-by-default. Swift is Obj-C redone Java-style.

The cameras like that already exist - all that's needed is adding an accelerometer to one to detect the shot being fired.

Then, you might have to shut down several deep cover operations. Breaking the law by doing mass surveillance is a different topic although.

I had an idea that might not be so dangerous and pulled out my fone. âoeComputer,â I said, âoewhat's the best way to knock that bitch out?â
        The fone said âoeParse error, there are no female dogs on board and âknockâ(TM) is not in context. Please rephrase.â
        Who programs these God damned stupid things, anyway? Back when computers were new, science fiction movies had computers that could think. These stupid computers sure can't. God damn it, I was going to have to talk like I went to college... only I ain't went to college, damn it.