Comment Re:Obligatory Welcome! (Score 1) 140
This is not the Clippy that you are looking for (waves hand)
This is not the Clippy that you are looking for (waves hand)
Hmm, I guess they still crash as often as Windows does.
Brings new meaning to the phrase, Blue Scream of Death.
Specifically he argues that companies care about their bottom line and that the trend of customers refusing to tolerate insecure products will force companies to protect user privacy, implement encryption, etc.
Posting this article on slashdot is trolling, whoring for clicks, etc, because no technical solution can ever solve our political problems. As long as the USA is willing to use the rubber hose, presaged by a national security letter, nothing corporations can do can fix this problem.
Markets are defined by governments. Wank wank, stroke stroke, flonk flonk.
Yes you could keep it going indefintiely but eventually the safety factor drops below an acceptable point. Based on what's there right now, that safe point is 2024-2030.
So, based on history, the Russians will try to keep it going until 2040
Barbie is based on a doll who is based on a cartoon about a prostitute. She's a whore turned housewife. So she's actually an abusive stereotype to a number of groups and subgroups...
Thank you for noticing. Fixed.
And a peltier cooler is lower-efficiency than a normal heat pump, and they don't last forever either. Still, it's hard to get an A/C unit into a bike bottle.
So, yes, that is long ago, but Windows 2000 implies at least the year 2000.
Linux didn't complain at all.... Yes, I was running Linux back then in dual boot.
And yet yesterday there was a link to an article about an Uber driver running over a cyclist,
who it's safe to say was not inside of the vehicle at the time.
Have you read through your auto insurance policy? I don't know how Canada works but in the United States it almost certainly contains an exclusion for using your vehicle for hire. Which
is why Uber provides insurance
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.