This illustrates the biggest problem with cryptocurrency right now. People treat it as an investment vehicle instead of spending it on goods and services like a currency.

Do you remember what your first text adventure was called and what it was about? I wrote one in high-school in GW-BASIC called "Attack of the Bagels From Outer Space" that featured a comedic alien invasion inspired by the books by Douglas Adams and Daniel M. Pinkwater.

This too was my early programming experience. Typing code from books or magazines, then debugging it when it doesn't work. Then when I got it working, modifying it and getting it to do new things. Skills, I might add, I still use today especially when downloading and modifying open source code.

That sure seems to be a lot of work when they could have just kept Stallman fired.

While playing the original Star Wars version of Doom, Dark Forces on a modern rig I realized this. What in the 90s was clearly a stormptrooper was in the second decade of the 21st century an amorphous blob that shot at you. My apprentice keeps a small CRT specifically for retrogaming.

It's not like a stoned billionaire could tank your economy with late-night shitposting.

They say human error. What else has fallen into a memory hole due to 'human error'?

I would hope that the importance of a city is determined by something other than attracting venture capital and catering to making billionaires richer.

The PDF is at http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/files/AWW%20New%20Statesman.pdf Also its in Mandarin so not sure how much more you will be able to read into it.

If you read the article, the New Statesmen themselves refer to it as "pirated" (in quotes). While one could pay money for the Magazine, those who can read Mandarin can get it for free using pirating methods where the print version will most likely not see the light of day due to state censorship. They are using this technique as its well known "the internet routes around censorship"

If you took time to read TFA you may have come across this little tidbit.

"One of the oldest techniques in the attacker's virtual arsenal, buffer overflows remain a problem. In December, Microsoft identified 2.6 million possible attacks that could be waged using a stack-based buffer overflow in the JRE (Java Runtime Engine)".

Well a gentleman's agreement between corporations are lubricated with money. Between a government and a company? I assure you Uncle Sam would appeal to patriotism and expect one to lay back and take it while thinking of their country with nothing more to ease the experience. Probably even given threats as to what would happen if one did not cooperate.

Now albeit through anonymous sources that government powers are developing malware, how will it be either through legislation, treaty or "gentleman's agreement" that anti-virus software manufacturers will have to look the other way for certain payloads? Is this already happening? Certainly the Third Amendment tells us we don't have to use our homes to quarter soldiers, but will the government use its citizenry's hard drives and bandwidth to host a weapon?

Does the line: "car security systems will begin have a real impact to every day use if a thief can simply walk up to your car and drive it away." seem to imply car thievery is a new thing? Thieves have been stealing cars since you had to hand crank the engine. Sure the techniques in 1911 were different from the techniques in 2011 but this is a a bit hysterical isn't it? Criminals are always getting better than security which leads to better security which leads to more cunning thieves, like any living system, it will continue to evolve.