That's funny in away, I had a 6 line Cnet (chat board) I'd get ticked if someone uploaded or downloaded but let it go.

Not many doors for the Amiga, the IBM BBS's had the best games a fav of mine was Food Fight.

I had a user who made two game using MCI code only, tick tack toe and Stones (7 stones don't take the last one to win). People still swear it can't be done (MCI game).

I didn't play it, but it was very popular with the users.

Post to Submission that originally linked to paywall

2009
Scientists Isolate and Treat Parasite Causing Decline in Honey Bee Population
http://science.slashdot.org/st...

2010
Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved
  "As it turns out, the fungus N. ceranae that was thought to be killing off bee colonies had a partner in crime — a DNA-based virus that worked in tandem with N. ceranae to compromise nutrition uptake" Note: (N. ceranae = Parasite)
  http://science.slashdot.org/st...

  2012
  Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
  http://science.slashdot.org/st...

2015
It's the pesticides!

To translate that for the novice, it means "I humbly recommend that
you peruse that literature that was supplied with your fine purchase!"

I just disable the service: MozillaMaintenance and hope for the best, while called maintenance it's mostly for updates which I don't appreciate being installed without notice. It's also my secondary browser and rarely used (Battlefield 3 requires it (Plugins)).

When Chrome slipped through while installing Google Earth, I also disabled it's maintenance service, before just removing it all together.

As for browsers updating, Opera 25+ is awful for this. There is no service to disable and it updates at will with no warning nor indication it's done so. I caught it by accident looking for the version of Opera (Help:about Opera) and it said it was in the process of updating; the only way you will know, outside of a new version number after the fact. I don't use Opera 25+, it just needs to be installed.

Opera 12 is my browser of choice, if it ever updates I'm screwed :}

Almost bought one of those for myself, I was under the impression it would pronounce words input into it, it doesn't.

My first thought was a ball showing a river elevation but it's not electrically controlled.

So hit on any electrical devices powered by waves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W..., or Wind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

But would have to be post-apocalyptic, as after the oil runs out it's all going to be different. As off the wall as any electricity produced going to national security, Your T.V. ain't.

If: "Dear Charter Internet Customer:

Charter Communications ("Charter") has been notified by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, that your Internet account may have been involved in the exchange of unauthorized copies of copyrighted material" = a strike. I have 8 against me for something you can view on youtube.

-Might be a dupe having a bit of a /. connection problem.

If: "Dear Charter Internet Customer:

Charter Communications ("Charter") has been notified by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, that your Internet account may have been involved in the exchange of unauthorized copies of copyrighted material" = a strike. I have 8 against me for something you can view on youtube.

More appreciated was software you purchased three computers ago would still worked.

Up until 2010(?), the intel chips could still run 8086 code, just a few years ago (2010?) IBM nixed the backwardness of it's new chips.

NOTE: Packages that are compiled for i486 architecture, are compatible with i486, i586, i686 & i786 architectures. https://myonlineusb.wordpress....

486: "It represents a fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs since the original 8086 of 1978." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Kept these back

2009
Scientists Isolate and Treat Parasite Causing Decline in Honey Bee Population
http://science.slashdot.org/st...

2010
Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved Note: (N. ceranae = Parasite)
  As it turns out, the fungus N. ceranae that was thought to be killing off bee colonies had a partner in crime — a DNA-based virus that worked in tandem with N. ceranae to compromise nutrition uptake
  http://science.slashdot.org/st...

2012
  Studies Link Pesticides To Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
  http://science.slashdot.org/st...

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"However, as Rami also observes, Kickstarter did "what they were supposed to do", in a sort of damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don't situation."

FTA: "In 2000 the average attention span was 12 seconds, but this has now fallen to just eight. The goldfish is believed to be able to maintain a solid nine."