Comment Does it display the Weyland-Yutani logo (Score 1) 88
...on its face as it boots up?
Comment Re:I thought it was the DG Eclipse (Score 2) 39
Aaak. I think it was. That'll teach me to work off of decade old memories...
Well, it probably won't teach me.
Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
Comment Re:About damn time (Score 1) 65
Bitcoin doesn't generally provide perverse incentives for people to manipulate political events or assassinate political leaders so they can win bets online.
Comment Saw this on Louis Rossman's blog (Score 1) 69
It may not be as much as we need or hope for, but I still about fell out of my chair laughing. Now I can make things shitty without even getting up!
Submission + - AI found 12 New OpenSSL zero-days (lesswrong.com)
wiredog writes: "Our goal was to turn what used to be an elite, artisanal hacker craft into a repeatable industrial process. We do this to secure the software infrastructure of human civilization before strong AI systems become ubiquitous. Prosaically, we want to make sure we don't get hacked into oblivion the moment they come online."
Comment I seem to remember warning people (Score 1) 59
...that this sort of thing was a possibility when the first ATX power supplies came out. I still say that if you can't disconnect the power source, especially if it's a difficult to remove battery for a laptop or phone, you can't really turn it off.
Comment A lawyer will almost always advise (Score 2) 32
...not guilty plea, even if you are caught with the chicken head bitten off and you're covered with blood, because it leaves the door open for a plea deal, which you can sometimes swing by saving the government the cost of a pointless trial. It's just one of the rules of the game.
Comment Re:Lack of information.... (Score 1) 60
This is what happens when you lack the ability to express emphasis in your output. Perhaps he should have posted his opinion in Markdown for clarity.
Comment Re:This will be interesting for industry (Score 1) 99
I know of several legacy industrial systems running DOS, as they depend on software with built-in drivers which must communicate with long EOL ISA or PCI interfaces. It's expensive, but there are sources for legacy hardware (as well as old surplus) for this very market. Yeah you might pay USD$10K for a machine capable of reliably booting MSDOS 3.3, but it's cheap compared to the $250K CnC lathe or mill for which there are no more modern controls.
Comment You're one of today's (Score 1) 20
Time to go down the Panspermia rabbit hole!
Comment No one online seems interested in acknowledging (Score 1) 37
That the primary motivator towards forcing the sale wasn't the algorithm as such, it was the probability that the PRC would use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
Comment Re:Precedents only matter when SCOTUS says they do (Score 2) 180
The Republicans aren't conservative in any sensible meaning of the word. They are radicals. The Democrats are far more conservative than the Republicans these days.
Comment It's not just IT workers. (Score 2) 125
Lots of medical workers, especially in rural hospitals, are on H1-Bs.
Comment I work in a SCIF (Score 2) 51
I never stopped coming in to the office. Before that I worked in industrial automation, and that work couldn't be done remotely either.
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