Anyone remember the good old days when there was ONE video streaming service and you could pay one monthly fee and watch almost everything you wanted?

And then the various big companies started getting greedy and wanted to launch their own streaming service, and it got to the point where if you wanted to watch a variety of shows, it would end up costing as much, if not more than cable TV?

And then the big companies started cheating on their contracts and terminating the streaming rights of multiple shows and movies so they wouldn't have to pay the writers/actors/etc a share of the streaming rights?

It was right about then that video piracy started seeming like a good idea again.

There's blogger and there's Blogger.

(And LiveJournal is still chugging away!)

You had switches? Luxury! We wrote the bootloader directly onto the RK05 platter with a magnetized needle!

I'm kind of a bigot when it comes to the code requirement for ham radio. It's not one of those "I had to do it so you should have to do it" things, though. It relates back to the ethic of hams being able to assist in emergencies, and how sometimes (e.g., a building collapse) the only way to communicate is to bang on something.

We have no jurisdiction in the countries where most of the robocall centers are located. We can't prosecute anyone; we have to talk the local authorities into doing it for us.

All we can do is ask the telecom companies nicely to block the calls. The neoliberal laissez-faire US government is loath to interfere with business in any way except to *remove* regulations, so unless it miraculously decides to stand up to its corporate masters and pass the right legislation, then take the inevitable court battle all the way to SCOTUS, we're going to have to wait until the telecoms' shareholders decide that blocking robocalls is sufficiently profitable for them.

The enforcement was very effective within US jurisdiction. Unfortunately, that has no effect on robocalls originating from overseas.

They're still shite.

Are the semantics of .internal different from those of .test as described in RFC 6761?

In the original building around which everything else was built, the men's and ladies' bathrooms are on alternating floors, because when it was built in 1938, the only place there were ladies' rooms at all were where the secretarial and steno pools sat.

When you visit the anechoic chamber, they give you a copy of a Bell Labs recruitment ad featuring the chamber. It explicitly says, "...looking for men with...". It held the unofficial title of the most-copied page of any printed matter in Bell Labs history.

In my early 20's, I would consult with high-end audio dealers when they were considering which brands to sell. I didn't get paid for this, but it was still win-win: I got to listen to whatever I wanted, privately, through lots of gear I couldn't hope to afford. In return, they got explanations of what I liked or didn't like and why (and not in that mushy language of "chocolatey bass", "insistent upper-mids", "soundstage of ambiguous dimensionalty), etc.). My goal was to get their brand lineup to the point where everything was of roughly equal very high quality and among the choices, it came down to the customers' own preferences. These stores didn't sell Tice clocks[1] or $20,000 1m interconnects--those places sold more pseudoscience than anything else. My stores would sell you a basic turntable-amp-speakers setup for a few thousand that was head and shoulders better than what you'd get spending the same amount at the big box places. If a customer wanted to go much higher than that, we'd give the names of contractors to build their listening rooms.

I say all that because now that I can actually afford today's equivalent of everything I wanted back then, the hearing loss that runs on my father's side of the family has kicked in. There's no such thing as a soundstage any more, and "pianissimo" is Italian for "drowned out by tinnitus". "High end" audio is when my hearing aids are charged up. :(

[1] Coincidentally, PS Audio was, and remains, one of my favorite reasonably-priced high-end brands.

I wish I could mod this up to the moon. I worked on the HP-UX kernel many years ago, and its VFS, I/O, etc. layers and the communication among them was more object-oriented than a lot of C++ code I've seen. You can write object-oriented assembly--it's a discipline, not a set of language features.

For great justice?

True story: A friend of mine worked on a government project in the mid 1980s where they had to write a compiler for a bespoke specialty programming language.

The compiler had to be written in COBOL.

According to Reuters, $40/share represents a 32.4% premium over JNPR's closing price on Monday (2024/01/08).

...is no longr clevr.