We never had one either

We also have a DVD player, but we rarely use it any more.

That's clearly part of it, but there is a lot of backoffice related stuff that needs to be present for it all to work as there is encrypted information that needs to get passed back and forth from the card to the issuer.

But a small merchant might not have that much to do in that I am guessing that their own bank would handle all of that.

I was in London in Feb, but I have a chip card from BofA. Technically not chip-and-pin, it is chip-and-signature. But I didn't have any problem whatsoever when I was there. Everyone knew what to do with it, and it worked without a hitch.

As I recall, it was Dr Strangelove. But the ones they had back then had glitches that caused the hand to attempt to strangle the person to whom it was attached. I am sure that they have this problem corrected by now..

Except for Windows. I have seen patches that remove windows portability, so the windows port and portability code will need to all be done over again.

If you want to remove portability to only truly dead OS versions, that's one thing. But I saw a patch that removed portability to Windows. And most certainly something sort of like that would need to be added back again in some form or another. And by doing all of this, what have you accomplished other than potentially introducing new bugs?

Well - we were about 8 miles from the pad, but that was about as close as they would let the public go. But it seems like it was such a long time ago...

Well they seem to be ripping out a lot of things related to portability, so my guess is that this new effort is a dead end that the rest of us will never see. All the OpenBSD developers care is that the thing works on OpenBSD.

I don't agree. Some kids aren't athletic, might not be all that coordinated, and might not have much of an interest in sports. And for that matter, some of them might not be inclined towards violence unless they are repeatedly provoked. In some (many?) cases the bullies are the athletes so they already have the physical advantage over the victims.

But to force the kid to learn self defense or to try and toughen them up by forcing them to play some sport they might not like doesn't sound like a good plan.

And those stock options came on a convenient roll that conveniently mounts on the wall in the mens room.

Easy mistake to make.

Since according to Monty Python, someone might attack you with a banana.

and quickly became annoyed, and eventually uninstalled it. The first annoyance was that it was shilling for money, but the deal breaker was that it wanted me to sign up for facebook so it could spam other people to play the (*&(& game. It was easier to uninstall the game.

so that's a deal killer right there.

If I were to sign up for Facebook, and then do nothing more than post cat pictures, what kind of digital afterlife would I end up with, anyways?

Yeah, but they all have their money now after having fleeced various investors in the IPO.