I think the future is subscribing to shows instead of channels. I'd rather pay $20 a month for a couple dozen really good shows to watch, than $100 a month for those same good shows, plus 200 other shows I never watch.

It's not our fault people have computers with webcams and microphones that we can easily hack into and install monitoring software to record everything they say and do, because we're involved with the encryption and security standards and can design-in backdoors that we can access easily.

That's not our fault at all. Stupid citizens.

It could also be a result of increased biomass eating up more CO2. Someone needs to compare biomass via satellite mapping with the usage levels of natural gas, wood, coal and oil.

I use systemd as my window manager and email client. It's Eudora emulation mode has much improved in the last release.

I always thought Pretty Hate Machine sounded quite a bit like Front by Front.

There are a lot of us. Don't forget the secret handshake at the next meeting :)

Because I don't think anyone should own something that expensive. And for some reason that sparks outrage.

You see, I am the arbiter of utility. I decide what other people should and shouldn't buy, and what they should pay for it.

Because I know more than them. I understand their needs and wants better than they do.

If I can't afford something, nobody else should be able to buy it.

2013 N7. It's plenty fast, it's just not stable.

Well, Samsung, LG, Sony, and HTC all pay the MS tax on their Android devices. Does Kyocera have a larger legal war-chest than those companies?

My Nexus 7 is quite a bit worse after the 5 upgrade. I need to reboot every couple of days or it will slow to a crawl. Wifi is also dodgy - takes forever to come up after being switched off, and takes a *long* time to connect to new APs.

I'm hoping 5.1 will be better.

Again, depends on your definition of AAA. If you think that only huge companies spending lots of money can generate AAA titles, then no. If your definition is it's simply a successful game, then yes.

Depends on what your definition of AAA is, I guess. Minecraft is written in Java, and from what I can tell is one of the best selling games right now.

And I used to be able to do that with 68HC11, but it only had a few dozen opcodes, and programs could fit into 2K. Unless you're specifically a compiler or bootloader hacker, I don't see someone memorizing the several hundred opcodes in modern x86/64, or being able to follow program flow in multiple megabytes of compiled code using a simple hex dump utility.

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Regarding computers and the internets:

1. Everything is connected to the internet. Refrigerators, traffic lights, mailboxes, lightbulbs... everything. And it all can be hacked and controlled remotely.

2. Hackers do not use mice or trackpads. They only use the keyboard, even when opening, moving and resizing windows in a GUI environment.
2a. Hackers only use LOUD keyboards. Even their laptop keyboards are buckling spring action so you can hear them go TAPYTAPYTAPYTAPY

3. Hackers are capable of accurately predicting anything. The trajectory of a car going over an open drawbridge, the food someone buys at a grocery store, which entrance someone will use at a shopping mall - ANYTHING. Because they have computers.

4. Any computer can be easily broken in to and controlled. Except for when you have a light plot and need to eat up time, in which case you have to physically break into a highly secure office building and do some technical thing to gain access. Hackers are good at doing that too. Because, you know, hackers.

5. Hackers can tell exactly what a program does by looking at a screen of hex code and random plaintext.

6. Hackers can pull signal out of noise floor in ANY SITUATION. Sharpening blurry photographs, pulling intelligible voice out of a noisy recording, un-deleting files, doesn't matter.