In fact the really rare stuff was saved. They had hours to get stuff out of there before the fire reached it.

i suppose these moneyed jokers think the works of Mozart and Beethoven should still be under copyright, with royalties going forever to some corporation.

Zoosk sent me an ad where they randomly took two names from my facebook friends list, male and female, and heavily implied they were dating after meeting on Zoosk, with their stylized heart graphic. In fact they had never heard of each other. The man, my next door neighbor, was very angry and i don't blame him.

As a no-ip.com customer, for a while I feared that MS was being given a legal monopoly on dynamic-ip resolution. You never know these days.

The B-52 goes back just as far as the Bear - it's the current H series that came out in 1961.

As said, a few years ago they claimed to be going back to hobbyist items. I've seen zero sign they ever even tried, just more cutbacks.

This reminds me of Domino's Pizza. Exactly when its boss made news for his opposition to abortion, "the word" went out that their pizza was no good. Now anything by Card gets the same treatment. Political correctness shows its muscle again. In the recent comparable case of Chick Fil A the tactic backfired though you still see that name used as a curse/insult.

Well I started with a "ASR-19" Teletype at 45.45 baud, 5 level with paper tape and a "radio modem" with vacuum tubes. And I still have all of those.

Why does AOL even exist today? I know my next door neighbor was told he had to have AOL in order to use his Roadrunner cable isp account.

I've seen overreactions before but this beats it all - get rid of 90% of those who know how it works and expect it to still work?

Lately I get multiple calls like that every day. The DNC list used to work pretty well but it's worthless now. What changed? Is this part of the effort to get people to give up their landline phones? Never got one such call on my cellphone or Vonage.

suit&tie mentality: if we can't make big $$$$$ from it any more, burn it.

The founder of the NTS, George Hart W1NJM, died recently at age 99. By separate channels I think you mean net frequency and side channels to pass traffic? What do you mean by RTS/CTS in NTS?

I am an old style pre-computer radio nerd.

There is no more demonized crime than kiddie porn, so it's the perfect kind of case to push the envelope on self-incrimination for the next time they want to force someone to decrypt data in some other kind of crime.