I wear Old Flux. That new low-lead stuff just doesn't smell right.

Old Flux. The solder your solder could smell like.

I sort of ignore it. Even IBM is jumping in with their Node-RED. Maybe I'll toss it on my Raspberry Pi and see what happens.

Do you mean that I can't take some age-old idea, process or system, add "on the Internet" or "with a computer" to it and patent it?

Dog-walking on the Internet sounded so promising too.

Blocking at the router means that I don't have to tweak several hosts files, plus it covers my Android devices that don't have easily accessible hosts files, but do have pre-installed Facebook apps that call home every night with huge permissions that send who-knows-what, and can't be uninstalled. (When I finally rooted the tablet, I did some cleaning.)

I refuse to use Facebook and block it at the router. If that means that I can't use some idiot's site that requires it, so be it. So far, I think it's been a net improvement on my browsing experience. On many of these sites, the comments are the content. I'll take my content elsewhere.

I blocked Facebook.com at the router. I'm sure that they have other methods, but all the pages I access that make little tracking fetches from Facebook are sucking mud. (It's the same with doubleclick: Is it the end of time yet? No? Stay blocked! I don't care who owns them now.) It does mean that I can use Facebook or see the fascinating pages of other people. Oh noes!

Even the simplest home router can do that. They usually have a parental site blocking feature.

And he's yet to be charged with anything, right?

That would be the 51st through 60th states. Not so good in the house, but those 20 seats in the senate would rock.

The ipcommission.org domain that this report is hosted on belongs to something called the "National Bureau of Asian Research". (They have an advert Wikipedia article.)

I think someone just wants to build the biggest botnet ever! (Kidding...)

Scientology is very big on making bomb threats. Mind you, they make the bomb threats in other people's names. They made bomb threats on behalf of Paulette Cooper (see Operation Freakout) where they got her finger prints on a piece of paper, added the threat then mailed it. It continues to this day, where they put up a YouTube video claiming to be from Anonymous and making bomb threats. (They really goofed on that one. They made a DVD on black PR on Anonymous. On the DVD, they had a copy of the fake video, but it was in higher resolution than the one upload to YouTube. Gee, where could they have gotten that hi-res copy?)

I would have been programming at nine, but first I had to locate a teletype connected by modem to Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Oh, and I had to wait for them to get BASIC reasonably stable.

That would violate clausality.

Super Sonic Transport? Sorry, I have TLA overload syndrome.

And assuming that we get that fusion power to work, wouldn't the Moon be a good place for the fuel source to get a fusion-powered interplanetary mining expedition to Uranus in the first place?