Got several of these free to hack in 2000. Looking forward to getting some of these 23 years later.

Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network was submitted to the EPO on 1998-09-11. Were you around for the arguments over the novelty of a "one-click" shopping basket purchase method? It was obvious then. Only the USPTO went along with the idiocy. And even that org, famously reluctant to admit it got anything wrong or failed to properly consider priors, invalidated Amazon's patent in 2007 for claims 1 through 5 [the core claims for one-clickability] and claims 11 through 26 based on prior art.

In Europe, a patent application on 1-Click ordering was filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) but was rejected by the EPO in 2007 due to obviousness; the decision was upheld in 2011.

Pawn exchanges and defaulting on chains of loans secured on BS property have been a mainstay of money laundering for centuries. This is nothing new.

I'm impressed but unsurprised at Trump's lack of understanding of the consequences. Section 230's protection from liability is the only reason websites like Twitter or Facebook can allow him to publish endless libel on their pages without fear of also being named in lawsuits. With that legal protection removed, they become liable for also being named in lawsuits by aggrieved parties. They would then have a massive incentive to police or erase his libel as quickly as he creates it. Just like newspapers or broadcasters.

FINISH HIM!

I also bought a lifetime DynDNS Pro account in 2000. I received both the "We're cancelling your DynDNS Standard" *and* "We're continuing your DynDNS Pro" emails.

healthcare require specific features in an EMR, and there may not be enough of a selection out there in that specialized field to allow for the luxury of selecting Linux,

I routinely use two of the larger EMRs, Epic and Cerner, at multiple sites and between different hospital groups. They all run as RDP/Citrix remote Windows sessions. I've run exactly the same sessions on a Linux machine. The underlying host OS is not that important.

We've never believed the ends justify the means.

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5

Shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

I just pulled out my iPhone, pressed a button, and said, "What time does The Fish Company close?"
If you had an Android, you could have just said "OK Google, What time does The Fish Company close?". You had to press an extra button. Sad!

All this work and data sounds impressive until you realise that FACS ("Facial Action Coding System") is bollocks.

Needed more space for GearVR stuff. Popped out 128GB card, dropped in 200GB card. $60. Less than a minute and... Done. Always amazed otherwise reasonable people tolerate Apple'$ extortion.

Meanwhile, Memepool has been down for a while. It's been down before. Maybe for good this time?

I remember an account of one case where as adults, both men had (among other similarities) chosen identical belt buckles Show a study of at least several hundred monozygotic twins where similar choices in fashion were dictated by twin genetics and we can talk. Until then, you're just repeating freak stories. Look hard enough and you will find two twins with this sort of thing, but your confirmation bias is preventing you from registering all the twins without the genetic fashion imperative.

Designing a machine to invisibly spy on schizophrenics. What could possibly go wrong? On the Origin of the "Influencing Machine" in Schizophrenia

The schizophrenic influencing machine is a machine of mystical nature. The patients are able to give only vague hints of its construction. It consists of boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries, and the like. Patients endeavor to discover the construction of the apparatus by means of their technical knowledge, and it appears that with the progressive popularization of the sciences, all the forces known to technology are utilized to explain the functioning of the apparatus. All the discoveries of mankind, however, are regarded as inadequate to explain the marvelous powers of this machine, by which the patients feel themselves persecuted.