I might be able to handle a 1x1 board... if I get to go first..

You couldn't afford an assembler back then, too many $$$. The Z80 chip was actually pretty easy to work with for machine language programming and it was also easy to just embed that into a basic program as a "boot loader"

It's relevant because it means that the police can avoid the 4th amendment simply by having a 3rd party examine things instead of the police doing it directly. It's another word game that's being used to gut the 4th

It's highly personal. My Seiki 39" doesn't bother me at all. I also didn't bother 3 other people that I let use it for a while. The 4th person however... he's a programmer with an autism spectrum disorder (formerly aspegers) with a sensory issue. He compared it to scraping sharp fingernails on the back of his eyeballs... When you consider how may programmers and slashdot readers there are that fall into or close to that category, then you'll get responses like the GP of this post.

... if pure robots are cheaper, then they'll replace even enhanced humans for jobs. Period.