It sounds slow, expensive, and invasive.

Obviously we're in a world where young people do not know how to communicate via messaging systems, online web apps and email. They need to be physically sitting on a file cabinet in my cube while I slam obscure commands into a terminal and swear semi-silently at every typo.

I don't know who writes all this shit, but my experience is that our new hires have less desire to be in an office, in a strange city far from home, than I do.

Is this really a top performing game device, or just a thin client to sell cloud SAAS crap? I'm not always attached to the internet and I'm not interested in renting my compute.

To cut surface tension, I spray my compressed puck with dilute 1% detergent (dishwashing) and compress again after it soaks in. Espresso comes out stronger and with more crema. I cannot detect the detergent (lemon).

I diddled some children, so you're fired.

Not every event can be the biggest wealth transfer in history.
Was this as big as the Dot Com crash? The Great Recession? COVID?

NO.

The Zip Drive was really great in moving large files around.
I had a Parallel port ZIP drive and I remember it being quite slow.
It was alro really annoying if you daisy-chained your printer on to it.

The ZIP drive needed to be the first device in the chain, so it had the highest priority for data (as it was closer to the CPU).
This kind of hindered the portability of the drive, since then you had to unplug your printer, and you had to unplug the drive from the PC.

The Jaz drive was the real workhorse. I got exposure to that through my Dad's work, where it was possible to loan it for a day or so.

A few years later in 1998 I got an LS-120 "Super floppy" drive, that would read regular floppies, and the LS-120 disks that held the equivalent of 120 floppies. That drive was pretty good, but then USB sticks were just around the corner, followed by consumer grade CD Writer drives.

Let's hope Oracle never buys them out. They'll assert ownership over dBase, defeature it, try to sue anyone who targets it and replace it in the storyline.

I await the news that Google has the keys to this and use it for.

You're unlikely to hear this news without either another Snowden level leak, or a very long, drawn out legal battle.

Anyway, mayhem the billionaires will make their own slaves.

I don't know where to start:

trolling electronic DBs without suspicion? (Laws were written for individual search)

Interstate trolling DBs by non-TN acredited LEOs?

Issuing arrest warrents without any corroboarating evidence?

acting on a warrent without any checking?

Other?

Mistakes will happen, you are guaranteeing more if they are not effectively prevented and ultimately punished.

LEOs are all about seeing people punished for mistakes. They must accept same for their own.

Not only can neural nets "understand" nothing, humans are not tremendously better: Nukes are far more effective as a threat than as delivered. There's so much fear (from Hiro/Nagas horrors) that an actual nuking would recalibrate. Hint, not the end of the world except for small/local values of "World".

1) Convince us it tastes the same.
2) Obviouslty this threatens ranchers everywhere and they're not going to go quietly

People can use the system to their advantage and still not be 100% sucked in.

Best place to be drunk is at home, either with or without friends. Paying retail price for drinks is insane.