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Not if you still have older CRT monitors or plasma screens. Also login / lock screens are essentially just screen savers

In the cases cited under the CFAA (such as https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=124545279862007... ) it seems the employee deleted data and private info. In this case, no d…

I'm curious as to what law, exactly, they would be breaking. Sabotage in the US code is defined mostly in terms of war material and damages done to physical "national defense" prop…

There is Phil, the free crossword maker http://www.keiranking.com/apps/phil/ but I haven't had the best luck with its automated fill. Lately I've been using Crossfire http://beekee…

Check out the writings of Clarice Lispector, especially The Passion According to G.H.

Spite is a great motivator

Funny that it was inspiring in its frustrating designs / lack of features, rather than a "positive" sort of inspiration.

Such a game does exist - check out the Pilotwings series for SNES and N64

Check out "The Loser" by Thomas Bernhard. Not a biography, but an excellent novel inspired by Bach

Interesting podcast covering the influence of these computational propaganda campaigns and their effect on the human mind https://soundcloud.com/inpatientradio/neural-narratives-co…

Make sure you calibrate your time machine offsets properly, as a day during the Cambrian Explosion is about two hours shorter than today.

You think that's air you're breathing now?

Kind of wild to think that it was a project funded by Princeton and personally supported by their Dean of Engineering for decades!

Writing your own random number generator can be a lot of fun. Lots of sources of entropy out there. Inspired by lavarand[0], I wrote an RNG in Python based on the output of the Glo…

Vote with your dollar!

There is something absolutely magical and enchanting about Dead-related shows. I went to dead & Company at Citi Field last week and seeing a parking filled with tents, converted bu…

This fractal gallery is absolutely gorgeous - and still being updated! http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/FRACTALS.HTM

They failed an inspection and mishandled waste byproducts - but also after an "unknown" pneumonia-like respiratory disease starting spreading in the area around D.C https://www.nbc…

>It came out in 2013 and never had a huge player-base, nor any big advertising to keep it alive It sold almost 2 million copies and won numerous awards...

If you read past the first two paragraphs you'd realize this was an ironical statement. But I guess this is HN now, where everything's made up and the points don't matter.

I quite enjoy when that happens. Often there'll be a deeply-nested comment with a great link that makes its way to the front page.

You laugh but look at the current prices for a Voodoo on eBay

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Had a similar realization when I was invited to a friend of a friend's mega yacht for a party. Ship was bigger than any house I've ever been in, had a heli pad, garage, and pool. W…