Oops. I thought I was responding to the story about the grossly insecure White House app.

Still, it's incompetence all the way down.

Although I'm not as big a fan of Hanlon's Razor as I used to be, I'd be willing to chalk this up to typical government incompetence, farming this work out to the cheapest bidder in a way where no one involved in any decision-making has any technical expertise whatsoever.

Nothing is going to get better as long as the U.S. education system is captured by ideologues whose priorities are _not_ an educated, literate and thinking populace.

It went to the same place that Winamp 4 went to.

I loved Hack 1.0.3. At some point between then and now NetHack got unreasonably difficult for me.

Multiple instances of a name with a non-ASCII character and of course /. can't display it. Is it still 1999?

I'm referring to Erdos, of course, but I replaced the non-ASCII o with a diacritical so it would be displayed in my message.

I rarely see _any_ subtitles that are not appallingly bad, including YouTube.

Do they actually do anything?

Microsoft is offering a 6-figure buy out, but it's in Windows Store credit.

They are desperate. They had multiple massively valuable IPs, including their own, and they ran them into the ground by putting out woke slop. To compensate, they are trying everything except making good movies.

They probably can't move the movie up. Knowing Disney, they'll probably still be doing reshoots the week before.

> One of those s[c]ents that everyone is programed instinctively to move away from.

If that were true Antifa riots wouldn't be a thing.

How many supervillain plots in comics, TV or movies started with the villain's corporation introducing some kind of tech like this, only to later use it to manipulate people?

> well above stuff like Star Trek.

In 2026, "Blue's Clues" would be above Star Trek in terms of science.

I have a lot of criticisms of the movie, but it was fun. It was funny. It was entertaining. And because of that, I can give it a pass.