I spent a lot of time with the 1130 at the SNET engineering department in the early '70s. Enjoyable, except for debugging the dreaded F101 halt.

This could not have come at a better time, although given today's circumstances they need to make episodes available much more quickly. Maybe they could make a special exception for "Severed Dreams" and show it now as a vital public service?

How long before the telescope is renamed "Melania" by Executive Order?

And then there are the few lines of innocuous-looking code preceded and followed by comments like

***DO NOT ALTER THIS CODE!***

I've seen this in production systems. No documentation, of course...

Well I have, since being taught COBOL in 1973 at a New England telephone company. Wonder what Big Balls and the others will do when they encounter an ALTER statement...

I'm not sure even DoD funding for this would be safe any more.

I was in o it's Advanced R&D group in 1979-80. I remember COP-420 microcontrollers and as little hardware as possible. Every resistor mattered, when there were pennies to be saved.

Isn't " 'Do whatever you like' zone" a straw house... um I mean a strawman?

Just waiting for GM to find a dealer to host the transaction. I've already accepted their signed offer. Expect I'll buy another EV in the next few years.

Guess you won't be taking that deal then....

He can lobby for laws, but he's not going to put that genie back in its bottle. Anyone in power to make a statement like that who doesn't understand that modern encryption works because of the math, not because the source code is a secret needs to sit the f* down and shut up.

If it's loading a whole VM, that's a no-go for me. Might as well just run my own VM with a distro and configuration of my choosing.

For being able to do linux command line stuff, I'm happy with cygwin. If I want to run linux, I run linux.

SARBOX makes executives personally responsible for the accuracy of the financial data they put out. This has made them get serious about the source of that financial data within their own company. Maybe a bill like this would help with privacy the same way.

You should ask for your money back.

Feel better?