Comment Auction the ISS (Score 1) 80
They should auction the ISS to the highest bidder when they get ready to decommission it. I'm sure some rich idiot would want it.
They should auction the ISS to the highest bidder when they get ready to decommission it. I'm sure some rich idiot would want it.
Call me when a quantum computer can factor RSA-1024.
> If this 'ban' is somehow enforced, how is this dude supposed to support himself if he isn't allowed to do what he's good at?
Then he can go to prison with all the thieves who aren't allowed to do what they are good at.
He was there when I was in grad school in the early 90's.
Sorry no time to comment, I have some daily quests to do.
It's not about price. It's about selection. If the powers that be want to kill piracy they should all get together and offer reasonable online purchase and and rental of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING EVER MADE. If people knew everything was available from a reliable source for a reasonable price there would be no temptation to pirate. But they won't do that, because they all want to try to squeeze out the other guy and think that will some how magically give them more money. So piracy continues because people want what they want.
Starting in 7th grade I learned to code from Calcu-letter articles in Popular Science, my "programmable" TI-55 calculator, the description of BASIC from the back of my Algebra 1 book in 9th grade, BYTE magazine in the school library, my dad's Fortran programming assignment from a college class he was taking (punch card era). Problem was I didn't have a computer. When I was a junior in highschool I got my first "real" computer a Sinclair ZX-81 with 1k of ram. When I was a senior in highschool I was able to take a programming "class" with TRS-80 Model III computers. The teacher was a history major. He learned more from me than I did form him. After that it was Pascal as a freshman in college, VAX-C on a VMS system as a sophomore, and finally C on a Unix system as a Junior. I took a networking class as an undergraduate, but had no internet connection until I was in grad school.
One would have to buy up all the stock and take it private.
IBM Advanced Systems Group -- a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes... -- with regrets to D. Adams