At those prices, I'd venture to say that Flash still has a reasonably bright future

Unlike your puns ;-)
   

Because I crave pizza, I have an italics prediction...

Ass exams over nail clippers certainly don't help

10 print "hello world"
20 goto 10
This is why we can't have nice things.

And here's the equivalent in an OOP language:

protected class helloWorld() {
    helloManager hello = new helloManager();
    hello.setMessage("hello world").toString;
    repeatManager repeater = new
system.controlStructures.looper.infinite.repeatManager();
    repeater.exitHandler = new system.controlStructures.looper.exiter(system.io.ui.keyboardObserver(new system.io.ui.controlKeys.ctrl_break())); // allow ctrl-break to exit
    repeater.repeat(hello);
}

Kinda miss the good ol' days now, don't we?

They had to pad the numbers a bit (no pun) to match what current drive manufactures do.

TFA: Al Hoagland, who during his 28 years at IBM helped to create the world's first disk drives exclusively for the RAMAC computer, said what upset him at the time was that few thought disk drives had a future.

I wonder what they thought was the better alternative? Magnetic drums? They were perhaps mechanically simpler, but hard to stack.
 

I have never been able to work out why Thunderbird or any other OS mail apps does not do public key exchange automatically. If the default install shipped with GPG and attached a your public key and signed every message by default we could make real progress towards encrypted by default communications.

My guess is that they are worried about confusing people with strange attachments and text appended to their mails. I can't think of a reason why that stuff could not be moved to mail headers though.

Those people don't affect my rights and liberties.

I think a lot of people who want authoritarianism assume it doesn't apply to them. The only people who will be affected are criminals, the antisocial, the people they don't like. Well behaved law abiding citizens like them have nothing to fear.

That idea used to sound better back when refusing to be searched wasn't considered "probable cause".

Refusal to be searched is not probable cause. Sample decision:

United States v. Fuentes (1997, Ninth Circuit): "Mere refusal to consent to a stop or search does not give rise to reasonable suspicion or probable cause."

Well that would be okay if justice was perfect and you could trust those in power absolutely. Actually it still wouldn't be okay.

But it's a lot easier to track.

I pulled a Pac-Man and went around the party eating everyone's pizza while trying to avoid the bouncer. I had a tummy-ache for 3 days. Ban the Pac!

I think the thousands of Kurds who died in nerve gas attacks would beg to differ, if they were alive to do so.

So you are saying we should treat criminals as sub-human? Maybe you are okay with that but I believe in a certain minimum level of humanity that should be shown to everyone, regardless.