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Submission + - SPAM: Peter Thiel Claims Zuck agreed to Deal with Trump Administration

ytene writes: Danika Fears over at The Daily Beast carries some pretty explosive reporting, describing how Peter Thiel — of Palantir infamy — claims in a new biography by Max Chafkin that Mark Zuckerberg agreed to push "State-Sanctioned Conservatism" in return for the Trump administration steering clear of any "heavy-handed regulations".

This could well be one of those situations where it doesn't matter if the core claim is true or false — because either way this is going to get ugly.

Comment calendar reminder on the service entry date (Score 1) 233

The day I activated my current router, I put in a entry in the SysOp calendar saying "Router XYZ Active as of 20XX-XX-XX" with quarterly reminders.

I check the devices on those dates, or around those dates, and if it hasn't been updated in a year, I buy a replacement.

I do this for all the phones, tablets and other devices my family uses.

Yes, I use the word SysOp. I've been around that long.

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Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes 806

Harry writes "Once upon a time, it wasn't a given that PC owners should be able to format their own floppy disks. Or that ports should be standard, not proprietary. Or that it was a lousy idea to hardwire a PC's AC adapter, or to put the power supply in the printer so that a printer failure rendered the PC unusable, too. Over at Technologizer, Benj Edwards has taken a look at some of the worst design decisions from personal computing's early years — including ones involving famous flops such as the PCJr, obscure failures such as Mattel's Aquarius, and machines that succeeded despite flaws, like the first Mac. In most instances — but not all — their bad decisions taught the rest of the industry not to make the same errors again."

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