I love this. It's a pretty complicated high-wire balancing act because you not only had to understand COBOL really well but obviously had to be a c master to "trace" the older program and its logic.

I have no insight to offer, just thought your thing was rad

What do you expect when the guy starts his security analysis by preaching about the greatness of security-through-obscurity

This was my thought also, I believe gmail and hotmail both disable image-loading in their webpage incarnations, and the officeware clients must also have such an option.

I've always felt it was a given, was I wrong?

No insult to either OP or you, but such discussions should be handled thusly

        Your post advocates a

        ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante

        approach to selecting voters. Your idea will not work. Here is why it wonâ(TM)t work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

        (x) Requires too much cooperation from voters
        ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
        ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone elseâ(TM)s career or business

        Specifically, your plan fails to account for

        (x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
        ( ) Asshats
        ( ) Jurisdictional problems
        ( ) Technically illiterate politicians

        and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

        (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
        ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
        ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

        Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

        (x) Sorry dude, but I donâ(TM)t think it would work.
        ( ) This is a stupid idea, and youâ(TM)re a stupid person for suggesting it.
        ( ) Nice try, assh0le! Iâ(TM)m going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

Sound like C-sharp.

I thought for sure you were going to say Ada

but but but if you program in $NEWTHING, your code will be perfect and smell like unicorn farts!

That rationalising has never made sense to me:

We know there were no "ancient aliens" because all claims pertaining to that are obviously bogus and debunked.

So they didn't contact us at a point in our history the natives really would have taken them for gods. OK That makes sense, non-intervention and whatnot...

But what is keeping them from revealing themselves now? We now KNOW what aliens are or would be. They wouldn't be worshipped as gods because we're not ignorant apes with no technology; we're a fledgling spacefaring species who've dipped their toe in extra-terrestrial exploration.

If anything, we're RIPE for alien contact.

The usual argument to that is "well, the aliens don't want us to have access to tech that is too far ahead of us"

Fine, then don't share it with us: If you're so powerful you can cross interstellar voids, there's nothing humans can to to compel you to do anything you don't want.

Complete silliness. All just a smokescreen to cover classified vehicles/weapons.

The truth is we ARE all alone, and we better start understanding that and learning to save ourselves and not wait for space big-brother to help

I agree with you that in principle, this doesn't qualify as Slashdot-worthy.

But at the same time, which nerd here hasn't stopped on Jeopardy while flipping channels and sneerily-answered a "tough" question on that show?

My personal vote? Put that Alex Schmidt kid (the one who was an editor at Cracked) on there. He's used to hosting panel-discussions and has nerd-cred

Is there a trustworthy software foundation hosting something like git-hub that we can trust?

I wonder if there'll be disinformation spread over there too warning about conspiracies

Is this some sly way of advertising your onlyfans?

I agree with you. It's actually a pretty useful thing too; it's handle-based and c-friendly. The idea of a message-loop and event-driven programming is also very useful

What with all the on-site, in-person work you need to operate a site like LinkedIn.

I imagine it must have put a hold on all the door-to-door cold-calls they constantly do.

Wait, what? All of LinkedIn's work can be done remotely? No sh--?

Then I can't imagine why they're laying off workers. And I'm sure they're not filing for any sort of assistance at the same time...

/sarcasm

What do horses have to do with this?

The people who buy electric cars are hip urban professional types. The people who support Brexit are pensioners and skin-heads.

Dyson's public support for Brexit meant that most people in his target market wouldn't ride in a Dyson car, let alone buy one. And of course buggering off to Singapore because the Brexit he campaigned for would make assembly in the UK a disaster only made things worse.

It was a stupid idea anyway. Musk was there ten years ahead of him and was already churning out electric cars as a new entrant. It is far from clear Tesla can survive as VW and the major manufacturers enter the EV market. Dyson stood no chance. Sticking an electric motor in a vehicle instead of a petrol engine is not a huge feat of engineering. There are significant design differences but the bulk of the design and assembly technology is unchanged.

Electric vehicles still have doors, monocoque, windows, seats, suspension, in car entertainment, etc. Ford, GM and the rest only need to change one small part of the package. Sure, they have been slow to adapt. But nobody is making EVs at a profit yet. VW and BMW look set to change that this year.