a large percentage of the accounts that were removed were being retroactively accused of 'hate speech' The videos involved were often 10 or more years old. This is causing long time YouTubers (especially conservative ones) to delete their back catalog so that they do not get burned by the retroactive culling of content creators.

The cops review footage from private security cameras all the time.
It used to be that they only bothered with commercial installations because
it was easier to determine that they had a possible view of a crime scene,
may have caught someone arriving or leaving etc. Even if that
business had no other connection to the investigation.
This has always been asked, not ordered.

Now due to residential ubiquity, and the wonders of The Cloud,
the tradition has trickled into civilian awareness.

Honestly, the top %20 are a worse problem than the top 1%.

I saw something similar when walking home from work back in 1987. A souped up 1978 Corvette pulled into a a gas station lot... NOT up to the pumps. The driver gets out of the car and walks into the convince store/ office of the business. A few seconds later there is a soft *Wump* and flames appear from under the front wheel wells. Seconds after that the whole front end of the vehicle is engulfed. Before FD arrived and foamed it, the car had mostly burned down.

From what I am seeing, the Tesla goes further on a charge than most cars go on a tank of gas. The only draw back here is how long it takes to recharge a battery vs how long it takes to pump ~15 gallons (56.8 Liters) of gasoline.

I don't really read code unless I've run into a snarl of conditional logic. Then it feels like I'm kind of sounding out the logic expressions while cursing under my breath about some asshat that doesn't know what state-machines are for.

What I am doing is watching for declarations, assignments, usages, language structures and flow that eventually lead me to see what a chunk of code is doing. This happens most often when I'm trying to understand what a low-level function is doing. Higher-level stuff is usually named well enough that it is easy to see flow like reading dialog in a screen play or novel. Poor formatting slows this down to an annoying degree.
  If I had to give it a concise description... It is like contemplating a painting, or a photograph, until all of it's elements make sense.

One exception is when reading assembly language. I'm keeping a running tally in my head of the key variables and operations as I scan down the list of operations in a function. I'm watching for common idioms and macros, etc. Again this eventually results in abstracting all of it away and thinking of the function. This feels to me kind of like sounding out a new word.

[I was programming in BASIC at 11, and transitioned into 6502 and Z-80 assembly pretty quickly. BASIC was just too slow for what I was interested in.
I guess I was in my mid 20's before I did anything professionally with C/C++, or anything other than assembler languages, for that matter.]

It really doesn't matter if the reddit clown got threatened or not in the legal sense at this point. It doesn't matter that this clown had a long history of shitposting on the internet. It doesn't even matter that the poor cockroach nearly got outed by CNN.

What CNN did to this troll *and bragged about it publicly* was incredibly stupid. Lighting a dumpster fire in that particularly dark neighborhood of the internet, to find one rat, tends to piss off all the other rats that live there. The problem for CNN is this: Now all of those angry rats are going to stop rattle-canning random dicks-in-butts on the brickwork and refocus their considerable talent at tormenting people onto a Mainstream Media Organization.

After all the crap flinging CNN has done recently, and the revelations about their extremely cynical view of journalistic ethics... I can't say I have much sympathy for them. They didn't just piss off all the trolls. They pissed off pretty much everyone in alt-media, across the entire political spectrum.

It would not surprise me in the least to learn that Trump had a pretty good idea that something like this would happen when that meme got retweeted on his Twitter.

Years ago I was Director of Ops at a small American Call Center. We had several clients create situations where the Sales staff was tricked into doing something illegal. Fortunately, I had a good rapport with several of the call-floor managers.

In one case a couple of floor managers came to me with concerns about what the client was mailing out to their marks. It turns out that what the customers were calling us to understand was essentially an illegal attempt to scare home-owners into a refinancing loan. The mailer looked like a Notice of Default. Our script was to calm the caller down and explain that to avoid the loan default they should follow through with a refinance loan, collecting their PII and pass it on to the Client's office.

We were told by the Client that the Notice of Default they sent were legit. They showed us examples of what they claimed they were sending out. But when we finally had a caller fax us a copy of the letter they'd received, it became apparent it was a scam attempt, the notices looked nothing like what the Client had shown us. The call-floor managers and I marched into the President's office and basically demanded that she drop the Client before we got in serious trouble for Aiding and Abetting. She pushed back, but agreed to loop in her attorney. I saw the President's face after that meeting.... She looked like she'd exsanguinated during the meeting. The Client was sent packing.

Not at all true. (West Coast US) From personal experience, the Magistrate will not drop the matter, even when presented with clear evidence that the infraction is invalid. They tend to haggle, reduce the fine, redefine the offense, etc In one case I had the fine reduced from $250 to $1 (one). When I pushed the Magistrate to let go of the conviction, she countered that I could take it up with a Superior Court Judge by demanding a formal trial. A process requiring significant filing fees, and hiring a civil attorney. One dollar was the final offer - take it or leave it.

The Magistrate will not let go of a potential conviction, even if the fine is $1 because that is how a they metamorphose into a Judge. The conviction record is an extremely important component of their career advancement.

Apple doesn't repair much of anything they make any more in their stores. Most of the "referb" work that is done is handled in bulk from warranty failures sent back to China. The other source of "referb" units are customer returns under warranty. Device was not bad it just didn't meet the customer requirements. Basically, fulfillment errors. These devices are given a quick diagnostic, flash-wipe, etc and repackaged as refurbished units, since they cannot be sold as new.

So what probably happened is some flunky put your iDevice under diagnostics, it failed. They tossed it in the 'To China' bin, and grabbed a used device out of their 'From China' bin.

A commenter below makes a case for replacing the outer plastics, etc during refurbish.... That might work for some models of iDevices, but in most cases the cases don't get replaced because it would require completely remanufacturing the iDevice from used assemblies anyway. So cosmetic defects abound! I'm glad you made them eat it!

I have not seen 2x4s used in framing in forever. I do a fair amount of pickup work between tech gigs, mostly residential remodel construction. All the framing I've seen and worked on in the last 20 years is done with 2x6.

Vector games did not have very high resolution, and did not draw pure 'analog' vectors. Go take a look at the schematic for Asteroids.... There is a pair of line drawing state machines that steer the X-Y position of the beam at a resolution of 1024. Technically, +- 512 because the DAC output is run through a buffer Amp that takes the output of the DAC and centers it around zero. The input to the DAC is treated as a 10-bit signed integer. There is a bit more magic upstream to generate the clock pulse chains that get sent to the position accumulators. They were just drawing lines. If you want the gory details you can read about them here from one of the engineers that worked at Atari on these games: http://www.jmargolin.com/vgens...

Bullshit. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Mass manufactured Carts use mask-programmed ROM devices. Such devices are literally hardwired during fabrication with the bit pattern using a metallization layer. EPROMs are only used for Prototypes because compared to Masked-ROMs they are hideously expensive. Masked ROMs don't lose their bits. The only way to get a bit flip there would be from de-capping the device an physically altering the mask. In ROM failures part of the address decode logic or an I/O line are damaged, from over-voltage, or static discharge. That kind of failure would make a Cart completely dead (crash the CPU, or the graphics would be mangled.

Rad-hard ROMs used in high radiation applications have specially designed transistors in the decode logic to prevent reading the wrong word in the array. The array of bits is just a mask of metallization on the die that wires up the 1 or 0 for each bit cell. Those bits will only change if the array is mechanically damaged.