I found it great and easy to extract substrings with LEFT$, MID$ and RIGHT$. Too bad the keyboard input was shit (on PC) with 100 A$=INKEYS : IF A$="" THEN 100. Also I sucked at converting that Amstrad CPC game, spending like an hour converting the pixel coordinates from "(0,0) is on bottom left" to "(0,0) is on top left", all in vain as the program didn't work anyway. That is perhaps a bigger problem than the 1-arrays. Either way you will always have off-by-one issues, though for the demographics of pre-teen without internet access it's nice that A[1] to A[10] has ten elements.

On yet another hand, the US gave Saddam Hussein interpretations of satellite pictures done by military intelligence experts rather than just the pictures alone, to help during the war against Iran. I don't think the work is necessarily so easy that it just gets done on its own and the pictures may be quite unglamorous. Why not let people who can do the work do it ; setting up the web infrastructure, database access, pretty-printing the data for everyday joes and then managing the community and signal/noise ratio would be a big task. Interesting, but it would have to be funded.

The diarrhea function was only introduced with the Apple III, not the Apple ][.

I'm not a fan of their website and download pages as I'm usually looking for the alternate CD or net install stuff.

Funnily it's the biggest reason for installing something such as Ad Block Plus.

It's simply that in Europe we don't know what Taco Bell is at all, more so when the film was released - since then I read about Taco Bell in slashdot comments and such. Same with "Doritos", "Mountain Dew" and such : I never ate or drank or even saw one of these.

It should have a command line.
Note that on desktop we've had a dual interface since the days of Windows 3.0 : desktop interface and command line interface. Web could be a third, or it's just a subset of the desktop interface (ignoring lynx, elinks etc. which are only useful in specific context)

There could be a Metro/Android/Ubuntu/whatever interface, but one special "app" just gives you the command prompt (and it always works, has the unix-like programs and can access the multimedia, off-line documents files etc. if it's sandboxed from the other apps)

*light bulb I meant, sorry.

You're right, but how silly that we can't buy a 100W LED bulb (or even a 60W) yet we can buy a freaking 100000 watt car and waste a ton of power with it. Go figure.

I got one LED bulb, and it was to put it over the shitter - perfect, as the fixture sometimes flickers for an unknown reason and a LED doesn't care about it. So one bulb gave me a decade+ of shitter lighting investment, no more failures.

For the bulbs which would most need replacement - they immediately light up the room in such a way you can see shit everywhere and look for lost keys etc. - the LED bulbs would be a crappy replacement, because the cost is multiplied and there's no upgrade in lighting performance.
Availability of affordable and working 2700K LED bulbs is nice, but 4000K or 5000K with a wide and full spectrum would be nice (as opposed to spiky spectrum of CFL). 2700K with a good spectrum (I assume?) means it won't do any better job than incandescent.

For "ambient" lighting which does runs for hours on, I already have CFLs there, I give less shit about the spectrum and it's not like I have a choice there.

Ethernet over the domestic mains is another obvious solution but PoE seems more simple and elegant.
I don't know if it's possible or if it's a good idea to try to fit an Ethernet-over-mains adapter in a lightbulb. BTW I say "Ethernet-over-mains" because I don't know how of a better unambiguous name, except for the French "CPL".

PoE needs the introduction of consumer PoE switches (at 48 volts?), and you need to re-wire your building or appartment, perhaps invent a new socket.
Ethernet-over-mains would work over existing cabling and lightbulb sockets!, but performance may break down with more than a handful devices on the network, and in some situations it doesn't work or doesn't work well, or it leaks out to the neighbour. PoE would be immune to these latter issues.

We all use data transmission over light all the time (sort of) : IR remotes. That decently works when pointing the remote towards the direction of the device.

Biggest non-security concern : 2.4GHz is sometimes very seriously saturated. I tried free wifi at the most central downtown square : it's the kind of experience where you can barely access the portal and maybe google's home page but any google search or loading a bigger web page than that will fail.

There's Wifi 5GHz but smarphones don't even support it. Wifi 60GHz will be pseudo line-of-sight (with some multipathing) but it's not there yet ; I don't know about the cost in $ and power. Will be a ton faster than that visible light technology but won't work on tiny cheap devices.

Ads that sell death related products to visitors and relatives. This also becomes just another data point : your age, dead family members and friends, age of the dead when they died, age you had at the moment of their death. Eventually you may get ads for a retirement home when your mom's relatives are dead, ads for death insurance etc. (I'm feeling like a psychopath for writing these awful words..)

Now, I'd hope f***b**k users receive advertisement for a rope to hang themselves with and quit using the service one way or another.

I find it funny, like a RAID array efficiently replicating the corrupted data or data loss over all disks.

x86 did gain reliability features years ago, with the Nehalem-EX series and successors.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Not sure if that's close enough for you. A year ago there were some additional RAS features (lower quality article : ) http://semiaccurate.com/2014/0...
Perhaps it doesn't go as far as the most paranoid mainframes but I wonder if such systems can be called a minicomputer.