Very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
So much extra complexity to squeeze every last bit of performance out of that old hardware. Nowadays designers/programmers are so wasteful because everything is so fast they don't care.
Why all the mirroring?
The summery says " 'you have a virus call this number now' messages" so it sounds like they are giving out a real number they expect the victims to call.
Buy land up hill from current coastal areas then drop it in the ocean. Bonus: you get an island full of ocean front property too.
Why is iodine used for those things ("scrub the incision area", etc) instead of alcohol?
Not disagreeing with anything you said, just curious why iodine is chosen over alcohol which I am under the impression will also kill pretty much everything.
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According to the summery Google deleted his email account too.
The CC fees paid by any company the size of Apple are going to be pretty tiny. The discount is probably refunded so all they are out is the pennies (probably around 30 cents) transaction fee.
But then the CEO can't look at pretty real-time graphics on his cell phone. Not going to happen.
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And what guarantees that the person who downloaded it and uploaded it to the repo got a safe copy? Unless the developer is putting it in the repo himself they are as vulnerable as anyone else.
The same can be said (to an extent) about PHP as well. PHP was originally basically a more powerful replacement for SSI. If you think of it in that context, it's historical flaws like register_globals are really not so bad.
Bomb Soul into the ground?
The IBM 2250 is impressive ... if you compare it with a system selling for a tenth its price. -- D. Cohen
