I have a feeling there will be a net positive increase in vulnerabilities.

Did he try 1 2 3 4 5 ?

So they literally did it for the lulz.

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Yet another reason to throw Windows out the... window. I have a Dell XPS 17" that runs fine under the current Linux Mint. It didn't a few years ago when it was new (sound card wasn't detected by older kernels), but it's quite nice now. It's even got two NVME slots, so I just added a second one for Linux.

The only issues I've had so far is when I reboot from Linux it wants to start Windows (probably a BIOS problem, fixed by having Windows boot manager put up a screen) and recently the 80% battery charge limit that I set in BIOS was ignored and it charged to 100% (still watching the situation).

You forgot Idiocracy.

I'm pretty sure that Gemstone III was on GEnie. I had been playing since the last month of GS2 beta... those GEIS computers were not very timeshare friendly, and the game would sometimes freeze up user commands while the monsters clicked away on their 10 second timers. As I recall, GS3 was set up on a Sun workstation to avoid such problems, and I guess it's possible that they could have added another gateway from Compuserve.

Thanks to how they did turn timing, I am to this day quite good at counting down seconds on my microwave while doing something else, usually to better than +/- 5 seconds per minute.

And you might be wondering what happened to Gemstone I. As I recall, it was the original demo which ran on an Amiga.

The Macintosh has had em-dashes on shift-option-minus since 1984.

Getting my popcorn ready for when they turn that on in Austin. I only day trip to there infrequently, and I've already seen a stopped Waymo at a traffic light intersection with APD cops around it.

Don't worry, there are only four digits on most pumps. When it hits $10/gallon, the 9/10 of a cent falls off the end!

Have you seen what a brass dollar coin looks like after a little bit of circulation? The metal tarnishes badly, to the point where you can barely identify the artwork.

Only if they stop making it out of that crappy brass that tarnishes into an ugly brown metal slug after only a little bit of actual circulation. I learned this back in the Sacajawea coin days when there were postage stamp vending machines that tried to accept and give change with dollar coins. The artwork on the coin may have changed since then, but the metal hasn't changed.

For those who may not be familiar (zoomers and foreigners), the previous dollar coins were the Susan B Anthony dollar, for which the primary complaint was that it was too hard to tell apart from a quarter (similar size and ridges), and the 4cm silver dollar, which was simply too huge to be useful.

Tim Kitzrow? Mister "Boom Shaka-Laka" from NBA Jam? Yeah, I've seen him a couple of times at classic video game events in recent years, he's quite the wild card. I can believe that there would be some crazy improv in there.

Remember: you can't spell powershell without "hell".

Perl had the concept of "tainted" input data to make it sort of possible to prevent SQL/shell injection, etc.. We've already got web browsers marking downloaded files as "treat this like a biohazard" even if just it's a stupid text file, why not clipboard contents too? (...to be followed by the scam instructions telling you to open a text editor, create a new document, paste into it, copy what you just pasted... the universe can always create Bigger Idiots)