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It did fine iff you had a good Kermit implementation at the BBS. Most used the most basic possible version of the protocol, which was godawfully slow, but I did some dialup at the …

One major shift has been the death of newspapers. When that was the primary way to get information about the world around you, it wasn’t just readers who benefited - it created a s…

Since you worked in radio, at WZZQ no less, you probably would enjoy the story of the earlier WZZQ. https://www.pbs.org/show/wzzq-the-movie/

It is vanishingly unlikely, or would have been, but given that the US has started examining people’s social media, it is not unreasonable to think tit-for-tat might happen. Again, …

Because they have identifiable owners who might wish to travel to Europe and not risk someone deciding to make an example of them.

In high school, I was invited every time even tangential friends wanted to go bowling because I was the only person who knew how to keep score on paper (the nearby lanes didn’t hav…

That one relay is the only connection between the pinsetting machine and the scoring system.

I first heard about this internet thing from Cliff Stoll in The Cuckoo’s Egg . I got on a few years later. For all that we complain, it’s still the most amazing thing ever.

I, for one, don’t care if thieves are excluded from stores. They can buy and get curbside delivery in the parking lot, and if that is a little more expensive than shopping for your…

This is how legal reasoning should work.

Yeah, before capitalism you just worked until you died, or your children took care of you. That’s still an option, but you must have kids and they must like you.

> If a criminal misuses his own resources to commit crimes and then you take that away from them, it only affects him. There is certainly a case to be made here for “if it seems to…

The owners of corporations are mostly pension funds and the like.

One thing that Slashdot moderation got right is that you can’t be more than +5 or less than -1. Groupthink is much less forceful with those limitations.

Cape York is also 10 degrees west of Brisbane. That alone gets sunset 40 minutes later even if you stay at the same latitude.

> The average is like past midnight Jesus, for what age group? I'm an outlier because I have to be at work at 6:30 AM daily (so I get up around 5:15), so staying up past 10 PM is a…

Kroger can and does run nice stores. Kroger Signature, Harris Teeter are two I've been in relatively recently. You're also only going to find those in the same kinds of places you'…

Yeah, it's one of the products where you are clearly paying an Apple tax for the hardware, but OTOH it's also one of the products where it's clearest that the Apple tax is paying f…

Somehow wires got crossed here. I'm saying that once-a-week cleaning won't be 4 hours each time. It is expensive, just not four times as expensive as a once-a-month job.

> capitalism is inherently corrupt People are inherently corrupt. That's just life. The Soviet Union was corrupt as hell. If you want to put down capitalism, feel free, but don't b…

If you clean a house once a month, it will take longer than doing the same thing once a week. You will end up spending more hours total, but it won't be four hours per visit, more …

But presumably would not be for four hours a week, since they would do more maintenance-like cleaning. Once a month, yeah, it’s going to take that long.

Park City, Utah - although there were meters that could accept card or cash available, none worked. App was the only functional way to pay. This was 3-4 years ago, not during ski s…

If you’re making for family, poach the eggs in the shell with an immersion circulator as used for sous vide. The whites will not be quite as perfect, but the taste and texture are …

Why? A cheap probe ultrasonic mixer is $500 on Amazon, small, and would take forever. An immersion blender is $17 at Walmart and does it in seconds for a half-liter of mayo or holl…