He was a 19-year old with very rich, well-connected parents. That likely helped him immensely.

Everything will get cracked.

Especially crackers.

I am not sure about the 99% figure, but both myself and my wife work in 'essential' jobs that are non-medical. Neither of us have been tested, but I missed a total of six days of work because there was a 3 week period during the height of the hysteria when the business I work for closed Monday and Friday.

Neither of us quarantined at all aside from that, and we kinda assume we probably caught it non-symtomatically (after all, if you believe the hype we almost HAD to catch it, right?) If and when they do start testing everybody we expect to have antibodies.

30+ years of actual damage >> 4 years of being ignored by the states and congress.

Except, there's open source hardware too? Perhaps it's too easy for manufacturers to add stuff and too difficult to spot it?

He did not get lucky at all. It was all quite shonky. His mommy and daddy were really good pals with IBM lawyers and they set it all up, especially the no copyright sign over bit. He did not even have an OS but had to buy one to onrent to IBM, yeah, kickbacks for the lawyers all round, great big old kickbacks, IBM investors of course, go right royally screwed over by their own lawyers. All a insider scam to rip off IBM, really quite naughty stuff, they basically stole M$ from IBM.

Lie, cheat and steal it is how M$ deal. They partnered with so many companies, FOR ONE YEAR, stole all their ideas and ended the partnership. No accident, they did it again and again and again. They, no Wee Willie Gates the turd did it.

Is 'Save the World' mode playable from the Fortnite Mac binaries that you can download for free from Epic? I only have 'Save the World' on my Windows system that I paid for directly from Epic and I never play the free version of Fortnite. Possibly did Epic utilize a 'paywall' on STW for the Mac by selling it on the App store?

... and, iinm, some of those nazis were instrumental in furthering US world domination, in exchange for their crimes being ignored. Nice.

I understand statistics, but not all the medical terms use and I don't have a context for what some of the statistics mean. Most importantly, I don't know if a medical source is trust worthy and if the methods they're using are sound. A medical professional should be able to know those things whereas you and I would not.

Isn't "national security" actually defined somewhere?

For one thing, it would not be a good way to systematically harvest valuable data.

For another thing, they would be caught, doing it at any useful scale would create lots of evidence, and it would be devastating.

And finally, there's no evidence at all.

PWAs lack some key capabilities on iOS, mostly capabilities that would mean they would lose store revenue.
A player version of TikTok would not be too bad, imo, but I suspect the "performer" part of the app would be more difficult.
Also, web development is difficult.

"No body will need more than 640k on a computer"

That was Gates accepting a compromise. IBM's architecture for the PC put the BIOS and ROMs up at the top of the 1M memory map, creating an ugly barrier and preventing a flat memory model. That was not a decision Gates made, though it wasn't seen as a big deal at the time.

The history of the early IBM PC is that the first motherboard had 16K of RAM and you could install 3 more banks of 16K to bring the memory on the motherboard to 64K. Any more memory you had to install on an expansion board that plugged into an ISA slot. (there were only five slots on the original motherboard, too, one tied up with the video card, another for the floppy controller, if you had a floppy and didn't use Microsoft's BASIC interpreter in ROM and save you programs to the cassette interface which existed on the early IBM motherboards). 640K was a humongous amount of RAM and very few people would ever be able to afford that much.

Soon after the first motherboards, though, the second generation IBM-PC had one bank of 64K chips soldered in and could accept three more banks for a total of 256K. People who wanted more would be an ISA card like the popular 'Six Pack' card which had more banks for RAM and serial/parallel ports and maybe a battery backed real time clock. None of this stuff was native on an IBM motherboard of that era. The PC-XT motherboards that could accommodate 640K right on the motherboard came considerably later.

About CP/M: I used CP/M. Lots of people used CP/M. I even still have CP/M-86 for the IBM PC. It was commercially available for the IBM-PC, there were multiple OSes you could purchase from IBM to run on your PC. The most practical choice turned out to be PC-DOS from Microsoft.

CP/M was no more functional than PC-DOS.

Well, after he (the CEO) went and got approval from the CFO (also portrayed by him), he cut himself a check to go purchase his own software, but then ran into the CMO (also himself) down in sales, and was gently reminded that his software, only comes in vaporware format.

This transaction was of course well-documented in bank records, but in reality the entire thing took less than 3 seconds, ending with a resounding slap to the forehead.

He was the child of a millionaire lawyer, he went to a great college, his mom got him a mention to IBM (she knew a board member). He and Balmer later tried to diddle Paul Allen out of his shares of MS stock because Allen might be dying and they wanted his shares. Gates is a shrewd business man and an above average nerd but a mediocre human being. I wasted many years on his OS crap and will not miss it when it's gone. I wouldn't piss on him if he were on fire.

Are these the people who brought us scrotum chin the troll king?
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> China makes the same demands on Google... and they comply.

I'd be interested to hear more about that. Iinm, Google stopped complying many years ago, and took their toys home, mostly. I hear that they still operate some advertising business in China, but nothing consumer level, iinm. Is there something more than that?

Other 19 year olds worked doing delivery for local restaurants

Don't be so quick to shit on the other 19 year olds. Bill Gates had significant advantages the instant he was born, particularly his parents were already very wealthy enough to enroll him in an exclusive private prep school when he got older. When he was young his school had the funds to purchase equipment and access to GE mainframe, a big deal in 1968.

Most 19 year olds don't have those kinds of opportunities.

If Gates was born to an ordinary set of parents he too would have been doing delivery.

True, but RBG's death will trigger a tremendous number of flying monkeys. It's going to get even crazier.