"My spam-bots need less human intervention to dupe morons."

Actual copy from the website.

Every lego brick can be a toilet with enough imagination

SunOS 4 was great. I ran it on a 3/260 which I then upgraded to a 4/260 and got to run a slightly newer version. I worked for a chip design company which used a ton of it. It was a very reliable BSD IME and we did a lot of good stuff with it with very little hassle.

The community college I went to, which used to run VMS on HP hardware, followed their software vendor to an HP Quad Itanium running HP-UX.

Yeah, poor sad fuckers, I know.

I did a couple of consulting jobs where I worked on that machine, encountered HP-UX for the first time, and learned to hate it.

No comment on the Itanics, we all know how that turned out and they weren't that relevant to me.

Alpha was out of gas, it was going to take a rework and it was clear HP lacked the will. PA-RISC, even moreso. HP made Itanic the successor to PA in their product lines, which brought in a lot of customers who would never otherwise have adopted it. The HP-SUX work I did was on a quad Itanium. No clue which processors it had on it, I was not even slightly interested as amd64 was already completely destroying it.

I keep thinking someone will lick visual programming but it never happens. I've got no suggestions on how to do it better so I'm not faulting anyone, except insofar as that I'm real sure that the interface to Squeak isn't the way to do it even if the rest is good. There is now actually such a thing in common use in the form of BPMN, but I haven't enjoyed that either.

Can't you already embed a browser relatively easily? How does Steam do it?

This is cheaper and Fox will say what he wants already. Plus reducing the size and spend of the government is a primary goal. The kind of people who watch PBS aren't going to believe him anyway.

If it's the principle that's driving the decisions, not the affluence of the beneficiaries, across a sufficiently-large set of cases we'd expect to find no correlation between the political leanings of the justices and their votes benefiting wealthy vs poor people. Which is what the article said happened for many decades.

Unless, of course, the principle being applied is "Who benefits?"

It's worth pointing out that although gtall framed it as the Republicans siding with the wealthy, it's equally true that the Democrats are siding with the poor. Both sides are inordinately focused on who benefits.

His advisors told him that he wouldn't be able to get a cut. Not even a measly 5%.

Needs to be bottified: "And your father is powered by rotting elderberries!"

I used HP/UX as a development platform in the mid-90s, cross-compiling to m68k boards running pSOS and VxWorks. It was a little weird, but rock solid, utterly reliable, as were the HP workstations it ran on.

Why. Is. It. that web browsers seem to be built with the express and sole purpose of being as annoying as possible?

Nothing is truly "free". It ends up being a tool to sell you shit, track you to sell you shit later, and display as many ads as possible.

I get where you are coming from regarding screwy and ever-shifting browser UI's. I'd like to see a browser library that allows one to use the common programming languages to implement the general UI environment. The dev can program all the browser buttons, menus and panel layouts, but let library calls do the actual web-page rendering for the sub-panels. There'd be several demonstration configurations (layouts) to select and customize.

I'd like to see a kind of modernized version of Visual Basic classic. One could whip out a general layout in no-time with barely any code. However, it's probably not for the persnickety. Finding a happy medium is tricky, as being both newbie friendly and guru-friendly is tough as nails.

Mozilla tried to do something like this with XUL, but it sucked.

The data shows that college improves your options and your income now. Who cares what effect it had 50 years ago?

"Slop" is the in way to say it.

that happens to attach OS's, browsers, and biz-ware to it. Reminds me of the old joke: "Emacs is a decent OS, but lacks a good editor."