What a dick move... publicity rights? Total horseshit.

Or you could always buy some hardware that isn't an underpowered keyboardless netbook with an inflated price and an orwellian Big Brother company that sells it to you but retains control over "your" device.

It prevents access by domain name, but someone who bothers looking up the IP can jump right past this file. This is a pretty dumb way to try and restrict web access.

Don't be a fucking pussy, Facebook or whatever isn't going to hunt you down with their mind control ray guns.

"Commodore USA" owns neither the rights to Commodore nor Amiga, and as far as anyone can tell, their major products are periodic press releases.

I assume you meant to link to an article or something. You failed.

That's BS. I've never once been asked about degrees, and the only certs I have are some minor things past jobs sent me to get, all of which are long out of date. If you know how to do the job and can back that up with some experience, the other stuff isn't that important. If you can't afford school, look for some work, even if the pay isn't so great. Get the experience and then the school won't be as much of an issue (and you'll have some money to pay for it if you really want).

That's how most of us geeks did it back in the day. I'm a community college drop-out with a partial psychology degree, and no formal IT education... but here I am, 15 years into a highly paid career as software developer and *nix systems architect. All it cost me was the price of a few O'Reilly books, hours of practice, and the balls to go for it in spite of no formal computer education. All the most talented geeks I've ever met are self-educated anyway. Having a computer science degree is almost a flag for a crappy geek who knows lots of buzzwords and maybe some theory but has no real world practical knowledge.

You can use https://www.google.com/ to make the ugliness go away without needing to sign in and set preferences. What the fuck drugs are they on at Google that they thought this abomination was a good idea?

Run a real OS like Linux, and this is much less of an issue. When you're not tied to commercial drivers, life is easier.

In their attempt to be "more serious" Wikipedia has lost a lot of what made it so fantastic in the beginning. Bullshido, or some obscure band, or whatever may not be something Encyclopaedia Britannica covers, but as long as the article is factual I think many of the things Wikipedia deletes really ought to be left in place. When it comes to things that are well known to non-English people but not known to many English speakers, the editors can be ridiculous at deleting things - even when there are well fleshed out articles in other language Wikipedias.

Sounds like he's trying to do the same as onesocialweb.org and would do well to join forces with them since they're much further along.

Unlike what the article says, the site is still active.