I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

I think this is some middle ground to modify section 230. Abolishing all protections for websites for what their users post will have a terrible chilling affect on online speech. Imagine what speech limitations would look like here if Slashdot could be held responsible for whatever crazy stuff an Anonymous Coward posts. I think modifying section 230 to limit protections for large sites for algorithmically generated feeds, but retain protections for sites that don't use proprietary algorithms to decide what is pushed to users is reasonable. I'd also support removal of protections for AI/bot generated content.

Like many square kilometers of radiators even for a smaller data center.

The person who wrote TFA knows very little about space. It is cold in a vacuum, but very difficult to cool objects. Getting rid of waste heat in a vacuum is far harder in space than on the ground. Thereâ(TM)s no medium to carry heat away other than EM radiation (ie black bodyradiation). At low temps, like those of functioning electronics, this is very inefficient. Cooling would be the biggest engineering challenge in putting servers in space.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Anyone interested in a good treatment of some of the challenges faced by a generational ship should read Kim Stanley Robinsonâ(TM)s Aurora. Excellent fictional treatment of the challenges faced by such an endeavor.

I loved the flying toasters on my Mac LC!

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

My PowerBook Ti was my fav laptop I've ever owned. Kept it until the hinges broke and apple no longer provided OS updates.

Thanks.

These drugs have price tags of > $30,000 per year. Given the modest demonstrated benefit I would suggest overall health and quality of life for Alzheimer's patients and their families would be better served by offering them $30,000 worth of supportive care (ie support cost of memory care residential facilities, respite care for care givers, etc.). But then of course pharmco CEO's might have to give up one of their yachts. Imagine only having a boat only the Atlantic. Just a horror.

You mean like it's an illegal cartel that needs to be aggressively destroyed? Okay!

To be fair to you, that's obvious to anyone with even minimal information about petro oil or a willingness to look it up quickly.