Anyone want a 4 digit UID? Make me an offer. :)

If your calculator has a dedicated '=' key its just a toy.

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Tonight Iâ(TM)m Gonna Rock You Tonight

"Codes of Conduct", like any other laws/regulations governing speech (blasphemy laws, etc.) are all about power and control. Always have been. Always will be.

If you're in an "information" job this may be true, but a whole bunch of other work out there will always require going to the work, not the work coming to you. Not too many plumbers are going to VPN into your house to fix a busted water main. Welders, pipe fitters, boilermakers, construction, HVAC, etc. can't work remote.

Also, work that is easily "remoted" means it will easily move to the lowest cost performer. If it can be done at half the price by someone in Slovinia, it will be. I like working from my home office when I get the chance, but it can be a double edged sword.

... because when you disable your account there's one that allows you to allow Facebook to continue to contact you. As long as you choose to not allow that they'll never email you. Nary an email from them since I killed my account. Facebook is a mountain of suck, but so is this story.

He was a lot of what made early Slashdot fun.

Audiophiles and Cyclists shake their head in disagreement.

What you call a "necessary evil" is what we call "capitalism" and some people call "making a living."

So 6 extra characters (known_) is apparently a bridge too far? Its not that the posted headline can be interpreted in different ways; it is outright wrong.

Subject says it all.

Head alignment had nothing to do with Dolby B performance. If your playback head was out of alignment, output was going to be poor regardless.

Getting metal tapes to perform was a challenge. They weren't worth the money unless you had a high end deck. I had JVC and TEAC, and although they claimed to support metal tapes they sounded way better with chrome.

Had to use compression otherwise the hiss would make dynamic range pretty small.

You mean, like Dolby B/C? Yeah, that went with the territory. You got 60 dB S/N on a good deck with Dolby on, maybe 70 if you used chrome tapes. Use high quality TDK, Maxell, or Memorex in a quality deck, and they rarely broke. Couldn't burn to a CD back then. That S/N ratio rivaled vinyl. I bet your PC sucked back then, too. Total garbage, couldn't even do 4K res video at 60 fps!