If I do that, what will hold up one end of my coffee table? :)

Yeah, I've got a box of punchcards - basically a dump of Basic - for a CDC Cyber system running NOS/BE. In theory, if I ever find one, I can load them up and run batch basic.

'Nuff Said

Good point, but my thinking - and again it's just mine - he didn't go to the UK until the Swedish arrest warrant was issued. At that point, the UK was beholden to Sweden for him, even if the US stepped up with a warrant.

And why didn't they (US) issue a warrant earlier? {shrug}. Strange as it sounds, it does take a while for US authorities to figure out a way to circumvent the existing laws to get their way.

I think, technically, he turned himself in to the UK police.

Which I think is a strategic move on his part. Once Sweden extradites him, in all likelihood, he can't be extradited *from* Sweden by another country (say, US). Note that he got bail in the UK despite basically being a nomad, and all he has to do is spend four hours during daylight hours and four hours during night hours at a friend's mansion. I suspect (and it is just a guess) that the reason is that he agreed not to fight extradition to Sweden. Note also that the criminal charges he faces in Sweden do not carry any mandatory jail time.

Indeed. The start of the death of the "Old Sun" was the whole "we're the .com" or whatever it was, right before .com imploded.

The next step was taking an investment from KKR... In fact I wouldn't be surprised if KKR didn't push the Oracle deal.

So whatever Sun *was*, died in about 2002 and got buried in 2007 (KKR). At least Oracle found something to do with the body.

+1 funny

Umm, not exactly.

Attachmate may be a VC firm now, but it started out as an IBM (or at least, mainframe) terminal emulation company. They used to make boards that emulated a 3270 that you could install in PCs. Plenty of people have heard of them.

I've never tried games, although I have a steam account so I could try. Most of my games are from GOG. ;-) I always sandbox Adobe Reader and it works pretty well.

There are security / firewall products out there for Windows that do just that, sandbox applications. I won't shill any, but there are free (as in beer) products too.

I only mention Windows because it's trivially easy to sandbox apps in just about any other OS.

Yep, true dat. I remember when Adobe Reader first came out, it was the cat's ass - lightweight, did it's job, nothing else. In fact at one time PDFs were used to avoid those infamous MS-Word viruses that spread in the '90's. Now it's suffering from the same feature creep that affects every other (commercial) software vendor - add features or else you don't think you're "adding value". And those new features carry with them all manner of attack vectors and vulnerabilities.

Which is why I don't think vi will suffer the same fate. I'm not an avid follower of it's development, I just use it, but it seems to me that they're keeping it pretty much the way it was intended to be.

Paraphrasing: "Mistakes were made. We don't care."

You made the rules, you have to live by them.

Heh, funny but only somewhat related, the children of George Carlin requested his FBI files under the FOIA after he died, and found out that the FBI also thought he (George Carlin) was pretty boring, as far as threats go, too. His kids were actually disappointed!

'We don't need 200 fart apps in App World. Those are apps you'll use three or four times then never open again.

Considering that only 20% of iPhone App installs get used more than once, I'd say that the BlackBerry fart apps are doing pretty well, in comparison.

Thank you. I thought that perhaps it was some inside language with quantum scientists that I didn't understand. And I'm an EE.