Years ago, a logic bomb was undercovered in control software where I work. The developer configured a software timer to trip a malfunction, which required the developer to "repair" it during off hours. He was exploiting overtime and fattening his wallet with the logic bomb, at the expense of production capacity and potential missed shipments. Someone noticed the pattern of failures and started an investigation. Needless to say, he was terminated.

He may not serve prison time, but with his name now in public he just broadcast to every recruiter of his sabotage. His conviction is now searchable and he will never work in the software industry again.

Laugh tracks have been used as a manipulative tool. More than once I had watched a scene around a situation that wasn't funny where I come from, yet the laugh track implied it was funny.

I have really good aural memory and it was blatantly obvious even over multiple shows I was listening to a laugh track as the patterns of laughter was similar.

I saw laugh tracks as a deceptive tool of manipulating culture and they are one of the reasons I ceased watching broadcast TV since 2000. I do not like being deceived.

During its development IBM and Microsoft stopped collaborating and Microsoft rename OS/2 NT to Windows NT.

I have a friend who was a young IBM EE with decent software development skills. He was working there at the time of OS/2 and he learned that the managers in charge of OS/2 - with zero experience in software - were told by Microsoft that the best language to develop OS/2 was assembly language . The managers bought the bait hook line and sinker, and a disturbance in the force was felt as if a million IBM software developers cried out in agony all at once.

That move brought OS/2 development to a crawl, and Microsoft quickly grabbed the market with Windows 3.1

But the other thing that brought down OS/2 was IBM's proprietary MicroChannel buss in their PS/2 model 50 computers and higher. That buss was to replace the obsolete ISA buss and stem the tide of IBM clones. But almost every peripheral card OEM refused to purchase the licensing fees and develop a MC card. With so few 3rd party cards available, the PS/2 market went dead. IBM's grand plan was to monopolize the market with OS/2 shipped standard on every PS/2 but when the market went flat they not only killed the PS/2 line they also killed future development of OS/2.

The fly in the ointment of the clause is that they are forcing you to give up your right to constitutional right to judicial relief and you have to notify the bank in writing of your desire to opt out otherwise your agreement is "implied". Courts have ruled in the past that certain arbitration clauses are unconscionable.

Chevron has openly opposed EVs because they are a threat to their oil business, and have even acquired the patenst for NiMH batteries to prevent them from ever being used for EVs. The patents thankfully have expired, but the Chevron uses aggressive lobbying to keep EVs off the market.

The article emphasizes that the accounts were removed because of hate speech.

Dating scammers create fake accounts of women or men on Facebook then send out friend requests to potential victims en masse. I fell victim to one of these scammers. While I did not lose much money, I took steps to block these scammers. I changed my FB settings so that only mutual friends can send me friend requests. Some still get through via mutual friends, but there are telltale signs that are easy to spot and I am diligent about reporting an obvious fake account run by a scammer.

The Fast Company article claims that Moog partnered with Al Pearlman of ARP to solve the problem of drifting oscillators and that ARP was given use of the Moog ladder filter in exchange.

That is false. I have been a synthesizer enthusiast since 1981 who has read a lot of history on synthesizer development and there is no record of that. Moog Music and ARP never partnered on anything, the companies were rivals during that time. Pearlman was solely responsible for solving the problem with drifting oscillators and he had the patent on it. Moog Music caught ARP infringing on their patented ladder filter that they were copying in their systems - the circuit was encased in epoxy which made it harder (but not impossible) to inspect. ARP had to discontinue the use of the infringed ladder filter and replaced it with their own filter design.

While the companies were rivals, the engineers were not. Al Pearlman and Bob Moog later admitted that they had great respect and admiration for each others' work.

The article further claims that the Minimoog had a pitch ribbon that detected static discharge from the player's fingers. Not only did the Minimoog never have the pitch ribbon as stock (it was available only as an option), but the ribbon detected pressure and position - not static discharge.

Malls have been in decline for decades, they grew up in one of the heydays of the nation when people had plenty of disposable income and limited retail options.

Disposable income is not the reason for the decline of malls; the actual reason is product choice. In the last 20 years I went to malls less frequently because they had very little to appeals to men. I stopped buying clothes there because they were inferior products. It was blatantly obvious that there were 5x the choice in clothing for women. Then that ratio got worse as they emphasized womens' interests as many of them tend to be impulse shoppers. They shut out half the market. Our local mall is drying up and I have shopped there a whopping ONCE in the last few years. The only store worth going to is a CD store that sells a lot of DVDs but it's just not worth it to me.

High leases are also to blame. Mall owners got too greedy and stores closed their doors for greener pastures. As they left, the ones that filled the vacancy catered to women.

These days the only store I patronize in a mall is the Apple store. And that's ninety miles away.

Amazon thrived and destroyed everyone else for one reason and one reason only; price.

Price is not the primary reason I buy from Amazon; it is selection. Amazon sells many items that my local stores do not stock. Some are niche items, but most are out of necessity. A good example is talc powder. I use it as foot powder to minimize fungi growth, it works much better that Scholls or other inferior "foot powders". Only one local pharmacy stocked talc powder; then they replaced the bottle with one half the size. At that point I stopped buying it there because those smaller bottles are higher priced and I would have to replace them more often; so instead of paying more $$$, I started buying packages of 12 bottles (the bottle size I used to buy) on Amazon.

Some things you have to shop for in person, like pants or shirts. I don't buy those on Amazon.

And as for malls repurposed for Amazon distribution centers, I'm not shedding any tears. Over the last 20 years I went to malls less and less because they had very little product that appeals to men, and they have way too much emphasis on womens' interests especially since they tend to be impulse buyers. I don't even buy clothes there as they are cheap inferior products. The local mall here is drying up and I shopped there a whopping ONCE in the last five years. For labor and tax revenue, any utilized building is better than an empty one.

PLEASE do not exempt political campaigns. The campaign robocalls have gotten so bad that I turn off my voicemail during election season.

I live in upstate rural NY. After cable broadband providers failed to provide service where I live, I chose a satellite ISP provider. NY can force Charter to expand broadband internet, but they can't force me to accept them. Far, far too late.

They are serving in Congress right now.

It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.

You can tilt the bill of your baseball cap down and shut out the infotainment from the screen. Put in the earpods of your mobile and mute the infotainment. There, that wasn't hard.

I hate air travel for many reasons. As if the security screening, horrible food, and uncomfortable seating wasn't bad enough now they shove ads on the screens directly in front of us.

I see you're a person who fundamentally doesn't understand people. Who writes or thinks like that? About half of the population. In terms of personality Slashdot is an echo chamber of the technical stereotype, and as such it often boggles the minds of people here that words and thoughts trigger their creative side rather than their logical one. Here's a trick you can play at your next company meeting when you're bored and out of ideas. Get people to write words about snowman. Don't tell them to describe them, or define them, just to "Write about snowman". Engineers and the like will start throwing adjectives out "cold, wet, white, sticks for arms", but people with other personality types come up with all sorts of stuff. Last time this exercise was done at a shitty team building event I was forced to go to, one person wrote a poem about children building a snowman, the other only described what he felt "joy, happiness, Christmas, etc" So next time you start a sentence with "who the hell..." remember *you* are unique and the quite likely answer is "any number of the 7.529 billion people on this planet that aren't you".

You must be a lawyer. Everything you posted is factually correct but completely useless to the discussion.