Pah, kids these days. Try TECO

"It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine."
    -- Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL

The first versions of emacs were written in TECO, inspired in part by tmacs -- TECO macros.

Or try APL. Uses a special character set, permits composed characters, assumes you know linear algebra, and reads right to left -- the epitome of a write-only language.

Now get off my lawn.

I don't really game much anymore and so don't follow gaming news., but Deus Ex was an old favorite and I've thought about getting the new iteration. Good job Gamestop, your tactics made it made it to slashdot and my radar, introducing me to OnLive, something I hadn't heard of (or had and mistook it for a branding of Microsoft Live). Although I wonder how well it will actually work for me it seemed worthwhile enough to at least download the free client and watch some games in progress -- on a Mac where Deus Ex sn't otherwise available at that.

Not quite the Streisand Effect, but mostly because few here are as clueless about OnLive as I was. Gamestop, you don't yet seem to understand that every company memo is a public document these days.

If only they had bid Tau they would have won.

Is that you, Eric Schmidt?

Well, excuse me.

There, a non-Monty Python reference! That should be worth a few non-nerd points.

I guess you could say that makes this post "MP incomplete." (doh!).

For those that don't know, David Cutler, who designed VMS while at DEC, went on to Microsoft where he designed Windows NT. Now, although Mr. Cutler attributes it to coincidence, W N T = V+1 M+1 S+1

Not unlike how it happens that HAL of HAL 9000 fame happens to be I-1 B-1 M-1.

I'm not employee #0, many of my past contacts know me as Patient 0.

You left out one significant scenario:

4. You have a choice of buying an i7, that acts like an i7, for $200.

Choice (4) is clearly best for me as a customer.

For Intel, (4) isn't any worse than (2), as clearly they think they can make a profit selling i7s at $200. For (3) it's only worse to the extent of their conversion rate, probably well under 10%, minus the cost to lock the chip, or less than $10. For (1), they are apparently just overcharging by $90 - $100.

The problem isn't that the company collects the data, it is that they then sell it to third parties to make a profit.

No, the problem isn't limited to selling. Data gets lost or stolen with alarming frequency: someone leaves a laptop on a train, with the data unencrypted; a web site permits SQL injection hacks; an employee walks away with with a flash drive; a National Security Letter arrives. You're lucky if you ever hear of any of these happening.

So even if the company has the best intentions and never sells or misuses the data, if they do not or can not secure it I'd rather they not have it.

sure. the GPL for kids:

1. share your toys.
2. don't make me stop this car.