...but you're right. It's over.

If it runs old 68000 games, it's an Amiga. You can buy one on eBay and have some fun being nostalgic. I totally get that. I still own my 2000. It's fun to relive the early days once in a while.

But these new machines? They're not Amigas. They don't run the old software, and their speed isn't anything like any other new machine you can buy...so why bother?

I just don't see what itch these new Amiga branded boxes are trying to scratch.

...the Streisand effect?

PS: Thanks for the links to those two sites, didn't know about them before. I do now. :)

From TFA:

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday said the agency reached settlements with four operations responsible for billions of illegal robocalls

And:

The fines the FTC imposed on the companies and their owners range from $500,000 to over $3 million.

And the translation is: We don't care that you're doing what you're doing, just so long as we get a cut.

Robocalls can be stopped, it's just that the phone company doesn't want to stop them.

We can stop a DOS attack, right? How is this any different? One PBX somewhere suddenly starts launching a flood of calls. Disconnect that line upstream. Boom - done.

It's your fucking network - don't tell me you can't fix this.

You are correct to be suspicious. Anyone can lie. A valid point, and one I wish more people would lead with.

However, Cohen was giving these interviews to the FBI. Mueller took that information, used his not-insignificant resources at the FBI, and determined the information provided to be credible.

What that means to us lay people is that the FBI has used it's resources to verify that information and found it to be credible. It lines up with the other information they possess. The FBI doesn't think he's lying.

So, if you'd wish to doubt it at this point, you would have to know more about the topics in the Mueller investigation than the FBI does, which is exceedingly unlikely.

And thank you.

If they are troubled by their public perception, then it falls upon the Telemarketing industry to remove the spammers and the scammers and improve the public appearance of their industry.

It's not my house to clean.

But only photogenic models in commercials actually try to do real work on tablets. Nobody else does.

It's not possible. They want you to think it's The New Thing, but it simply is impossible to do anything meaningful on a tablet. The ergonomics are all wrong. There will be of course one response to this post about someone who writes assembly code for his neural network on a tablet, but for 99.999% of humanity, the ergonomics of tablet-work are not possible.

Holding a tablet with one hand means you have to do all your input with another hand. And if you get a tablet stand - well guess what? You just reinvented the laptop computer. Actual work requires a real keyboard and a real mouse/trackball/Wacom pad, and both hands free.

Nobody in reality does anything much more with a tablet than Netflix and Facebook and app store candy games. Desktops are for creating content, tablets are for consuming it.

From this link:

Well, I don't know about poor selection. My favorite band is prog-era Genesis, and I've found things from them on Youtube that I've never seen anywhere else. Never even heard of before Youtube. I'd never heard of It's Yourself or Spot the Pigeon, and Youtube introduced me to both.

Maybe you're on some super-elite mp3 site that gives you access to stuff more rare than this, or higher bitrates or whatever - but I'm pretty impressed with Youtube's catalog.

Between Youtube and Pandora, you can hear everything you want for free anyways. Streaming services have already pretty much killed piracy in the classical 1990's sense of the word.

This shows you haven't dug very deeply into his work. And I get it - at a surface glance it does appear to fly in the face of some things that are widely accepted now. But don't forget the luminiferous aether was widely accepted.

I think I can give you the gist of his argument, or at least maybe some food for thought.

The Casimir force has been experimentally verified fairly well at this point. Would you agree with that statement? If so I have another related thought.

The Casimir force arises from virtual particle pairs not being allowed to form in a small space in between two metal plates, making a sort of vacuum. The particle pairs on the outside are more numerous resulting in a net pressure.

Here's the important bit. At what range does this effect stop?

In other words, if the plates are a micron apart we have Casimir forces. Do we have them at a range of an inch? A foot? A light year? And if so what would the consequences be?

That's really all Dr. McCulloch's work is. What if Casimir forces are summed up over a Hubble scale?

I like to think of those kinds of bugs as Weeping Angels. They only move when you're not looking at them.

I have about a dozen years experience in MS Embedded CE. There is typically a Release build, and a Debug build. Release will macro out all the debug statements, which changes the execution timing. Enough so to where the bug that is biting you is often seen only in Release. Switch to Debug to chase it, and it goes away.

I had a similar experience recently with a PIC32 project. The devboard they sell has floating inputs on UART1. It never fails in the devboard. It does fail in the board I made. The floating inputs every so often will decide to twitch back and forth rapidly, firing a shitstorm of interrupt requests that crash the firmware. It never dies on the devboard. It occasionally gets twitchy and dies on our board, which is exactly derived from the schematic of the devboard. As an added plus, if you hook up an oscilloscope to the pins that changes impedance, and the float goes away, and the problem goes away. I have no idea how the devboard does not suffer from the same problem.

You're assuming that Microsoft wants to give you a good user experience. They do not. They want to make money. And since Candy Crush is paying them more than you are, this is the result.

Do you have any proof that the media is purposely withholding stories?

That would require a perfect conspiracy of everyone involved in the news cycle at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, USA Today, New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.

Now imagine what it would take to get everyone involved to shut up without scooping each other. News outlets get paid through advertising. If some amazing event occurs, the first outlet to report it gets the most eyes and the most advertising revenue. That is how it works. Your conspiracy theory runs counter to this.

I have a rule of thumb I try to keep in mind. If your explanation requires a conspiracy to work, your explanation is almost certainly wrong. People talk.