the 6 in 7 don't die simultaneously.

Some keep growing before dying, etc.

The unicorns don't start as such, but have already survived most of their contemporaries. Having survived that long, it appears that only another 20% die.

"call me Zilog" . . .

perhaps they could call this processor the "Z80,000" :)

is it even *possible* for an item that much smaller to generate audio waves in the needed frequency?

It would seem to me that that function is a prerequisite to using the name.

This, rather, seems to be a curiosity in the general shape of a violin.

Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Graft & Swindling!

>Top gears usually are,

usually. But not always.

My '06 Miata GT has six speeds, but it's a close ratio without overdrive. (kind of annoying; it's at nearly 4krpm on the freeway. I toy with the idea of a 50% inline overdrive, which would need to downshift simultaneously to engaging).

And in the 80s, VW shipped both a 4speed and a 5speed on rabies and such--but the 4 speed had an overdrive, while the 5 didn't! [so the 4 if you mostly drove freeway, and the 5 for city ]

hawk

This is amazing. They are claiming that keeping the logs is a privacy risk to customers?

Is their security *that* bad???

If so, the order should include taking all of their systems and backups *completely* offline!

more importantly, would any of these have a chance in Robot Wars or Battle Bots?

In a different era, junkbuster was sufficient for trackers and such. It was most known for letting you keep a domain blocklist.

One of the lesser used features, though, was a provision for a "cookie jar", with the noted possibility that users could trade cookies to throw off (or just annoy!) those who tracked us.

I first put it on after loading a couple of large (for the time) pages full of animated gifs on a 486. It brought the system to its knees! (X on Linux did *not* react well to high loads in those days!)

And cookies are the reason my uid here is so high.

Originally, there was no login; you just pasted your name in to make a comment (I *said* that it was a different era!).

One morning I came in, and it had an announcement that cookies would now be used, and it was no longer possible to post without them.

As I was one of the many at the time who made a folder with the name of the cookie file, blocking their storage, I refused for quite a while. Eventually, though, I registered.

I would like to see a modern project to catch and exchange tracking cookies. Just for the fun of it.

hawk

>which was Microsoft's second stage to orbit after providing Level II Basic for the TRS-80.

But that was just BASIC 80, rev 2, which was also found on most other micros of the day and shortly thereafter, Apple's base Integer BASIC and Atari's initial cartridge BASIC being the most notable exceptions. (for that matter, Level I basic on the TRS-80, too). [yes, there were other tiny basic machines, but they were in the toy to hobby range].

BASIC 80 came in three levels, with "Extended" and "Disk Basic" being the upper tiers. Generally, a high level could be loaded into RAM to supplement what came in ROM.

while it had single (6 digit) and double (12 digit) floating point, the non-8080 ports (Apple, commodore, etc.) tended to have a single 9 (?) digit float.

And they were all bad at math; the rounding to base 2 meant that a loop from -1 to 1 step .1 would miss zero by its calculations . . .

Version 4.51 was common on CP/M, as was the later 5. I think 4.51 was the first that built an address table, rather than scanning memory for line numbers on every branch. [the workaround for large programs was to put common subroutines in low line numbers, setup in high numbers, and to jump to setup and then jump to mid numbers for main execution. {my large BASIC programs looked suspiciously like well-structured FORTRAN}]

for all practical purposes, the PC's BASICA and MS-DOS' GWBASIC were 8088 ports of MBASIC5.

>Real geeks wire-wrapped their systems.

I made my first computer, with an 1802, with wire wrap.

But it had its limits as frequency went up.

I heard multiple reports of attempting to clone Apple ][ with wire wrap, all of which failed, as their RF emissions interfered with themselves (in fact, this was the *only* reason I didn't try one myself!)

no VGA?

What's next? removing the RS-232 and Centronics ports? Or (*shudder*) the floppy drive itself?

>Personally, I'd be in favor of ending the Senate's representation of each state, two senators.

the only amendment that would still require unanimous consent of the states.

There would *be* no union without this compromise.

And an attempt around by getting by the limitation by creating a new one under different rules (like with the Articles) would leave a US with less than 50 states . . .

>while California, with forty million people, has two votes.

actually, it makes no sense for California to have any votes, on anything, but that's another matter . . . :)

anyway, the 17th was the worst mistake in the history of the Republic. It needs not simply repeal, but a clause forbidding the seating of anyone selected by election or referendum, or any manner other than legislative action.

>On the plus side, the attorney's billable hours were rather low.

not according to the billing statement prepared by the AI . . .

the lawyers on the other side should be looking up these surprising "cases" they didn't find.

At that point, they file a motion to set aside.

And there is *no* time limit und Rule 60(d)(3) for "fraud upon the court."

Once this is filed, and the judge scraped from the ceiling, there will be a hearing so fast as to make heads spin!

hawk, esq.

no, even moreso than that.

they don't *distinguish* between quotations and the rest of the text; it's just another sentence to the AI, just like past and future tenses, plurals, and so forth.