I was involved in this late 1990s debacle:

PowerAgent Shuts Doors

It's how I came be be deposed by David Boies. (PowerAgent sued Ross Perot's EDS when the failed to follow-through on promised funding. Bois represented PowerAgent.) I worked for a company that was contracted to do the front-end implementation. (Another company was responsible for backend.)

Part of this scheme was something called PowerFrames. I did the implementation of that.

We "framed" IE and Mozilla, and added a panel with 3 ads at the top, and tapped-in to the URL stream. Both had the means for embedding in an application, I think Mozilla had that first. And perhaps some trickery was needed to tap-in to the URL stream.

The URL stream would be sent to a server, the server would provide relevant ads to the user, and the user was supposed to be paid some incentive for viewing ads. (WGCW?)

At least it was transparent. Management went along with my idea to sign but not encrypt the data stream going up to the server, so that in theory users could examine the stream to make sure it contained only what was disclosed. Of course, there COULD have been some small amount of undisclosed data in the signature block, but there wasn't.

So, use renewable energy resources to further heat the planet.

Music to the ears of Buffolonians.

Hellloooooooo!

Universe.

I briefly tried to mine Bitcoin in like 2010. On some motherboard I got at Fry's, with a honking PC Power & Cooling power supply. (San Diego native company, went there to get the PS.) I got my 5 free Bitcoin (Which old hard drive is the wallet on, I wonder, I wonder... which password-safe software did I stuff the private key in, and what's the password to the password-safe?)

I thought I was going to add some coin to the free coins I had in the wallet.

Well, it was summer, and San Diego, and though we have "mild" weather most of the time, it made my spare-bedroom office very ... uncomfortable.

So, that lasted about a week.

This is when I surmised that BitCoin will eventually be worth Z E R O.

But hell of a wait for a bit of schadenfreude.

"Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat! Whoa-oh!"

| Did they remove the most important feature? The one that inserts the "eh" at the end of every sentence?

Naw, they made it impolite.

Well, THAT has attracted interest!

A handful of entry-level courses in pretty generic skills. And probably not of much interest to people here. The press release must have been low-effort, as the Reuters story left me wondering what they were talking about, so had to go searching for the Google page (using Google...)

Instagrammers? It's Instagrammers, you say?!

OMG what will Instagrammers do next?

MUST stop the Instagrammers!

Let me see if I have this right.

A database of open subtitles has been hacked. So, now, all those subtitles are - open?

Mind explodes!

Sure would be nice to know what devices or what manufacturers.

Just went through the links in this article and others, and haven't found a one yet that lists any specific devices or manufacturers.

See subject.

Wake me up.

There was no SVG.

There was no Objective-C.

That's not how this worked.

That's not how any of this worked!

Oh, great.

It's legal to fix your Mini.

The OG. Not the BMW one.

But you always could.

The OG.

Not the BMW one.

Does anyone actually believe that third-party VPNs actually protect anyone's privacy?

The public gets confuzeled about VPNs. They think they are some cloud service, for watching porn, or BBC iPlayer.

They are a secure way to link branch offices, securely work-from-home, or browse the Interwebs from a coffee shop through your home router. And there's no cloud service needed.

Oh, yea, and the silly cloud services for watching Faulty Towers.

So, yes, less snarky and more on-topic, I actually worked on design software for a somewhat similar technique some 30 years ago.

It was for tilt-up building (commonly used for warehouse and industrial buildings) panels that they were building in a factory and transporting to the building sites - rather than the traditional build-on-site.

I don't remember that there was any automation. Just a system of forms that the workers placed in the factory prior to pouring the concrete. There were various options for e.g. window and door openings in predefined locations, and there was a GUI for setting dimensions and making optional selections, and then the software made a set of drawings.

FWIW, the company was also in/near Rancho Mirage, though the name of this one doesn't ring a bell.

Worked on some similar software for sun rooms made from standardized extrusions.