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- Jeff Bezos

I remember they got past the Iranian air gap using a USB stick. It’s a mistake to think air gaps are safe but they are certainly better than having your network open to the interne…

The article wants it to "just work"

What’s wrong with installing WinXP+office and calling it a day? Even if someone fulfilled your request and got an up-to-date browser etc working on your 256MB laptop Would YouTube …

Tactical Intervention had tons of wacky broken creative ideas, to me it felt a lot more like old school CS than Source or GO

Agreed. I think people forget that smart animals are smart enough to do bad things because they feel like it

> (Of course, it's also possible that by thinking we've 'cured' the common cold, we will open ourselves up to a once-a-century pandemic, where millions are wiped out by what used t…

You could put your fax machines in a locked container

Because it is a quote

The crown is just a rubber stamp, until it’s not, like in the Australian constitutional crisis

> That's some fake Prada bag shit I think it's different because they started out as actual Nike shoes

I read a book or something online by Michio Kaku where he was passionately against launching any kind of nuclear material because of the possibility of the rocket exploding before …

I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire

> The Dutch hosting company doesn't obey US law. My god! Can you believe these assholes? Running a hosting company that just hosts, and doesn't snoop into what their customers are …

I downloaded plenty of music on shitty dialup. It’s not like there were any other options. The hard part was finding them until Napster etc

This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video

Considering that they literally invented JIT manufacturing, yes I think it counts

> Ha! Things can disrupt JIT operations, don't these bozos know that For a real world example of bozos not knowing that, see Toyota in 2011.

Which translation of War and Peace?

> It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day. I felt the same way about the 8088 MPH demo, knowledge that the original …

> Then they should simply charge the higher amount. Then, to make things go smoothly, you will have to pay the higher amount as well as a bribe. > This even goes higher up, as pave…

It’s interesting to me that someone smart enough could have thought of this in 1981, but considered it impossible because 90MB was an absurdly large amount of data

> Is it supposed to reflect the simplicity of a back-to-nature lifestyle and the characters therein? I'm inclined to suspect is the latter of the two; especially if kana is only em…

> I am no expert but I would hope that satellites are now used for defence based communication. If a war gets to the point where nation states are cutting each other’s undersea cab…

Relax, it’s iPhone* *until you do the thing we showed in our commercial and break your phone. When you come to the Genius Bar, we’ll point out that the commercial did in fact warn …