Anyone want a 4 digit UID? Make me an offer. :)

If your calculator has a dedicated '=' key its just a toy.

#RPNForLife
#ImOld

Finger.

Tonight Iâ(TM)m Gonna Rock You Tonight

"Codes of Conduct", like any other laws/regulations governing speech (blasphemy laws, etc.) are all about power and control. Always have been. Always will be.

If you're in an "information" job this may be true, but a whole bunch of other work out there will always require going to the work, not the work coming to you. Not too many plumbers are going to VPN into your house to fix a busted water main. Welders, pipe fitters, boilermakers, construction, HVAC, etc. can't work remote.

Also, work that is easily "remoted" means it will easily move to the lowest cost performer. If it can be done at half the price by someone in Slovinia, it will be. I like working from my home office when I get the chance, but it can be a double edged sword.

... because when you disable your account there's one that allows you to allow Facebook to continue to contact you. As long as you choose to not allow that they'll never email you. Nary an email from them since I killed my account. Facebook is a mountain of suck, but so is this story.

He was a lot of what made early Slashdot fun.

Audiophiles and Cyclists shake their head in disagreement.

So 6 extra characters (known_) is apparently a bridge too far? Its not that the posted headline can be interpreted in different ways; it is outright wrong.

Subject says it all.

He didn't pay Personal Audio any money. There ended up being an out of court settlement where PA promised not to sue Carolla or a group of other podcasters for something like 5 years. Carolla did a great job of highlighting what PA were doing and they basically wanted to get out of the spotlight.

DOH. Dual floppy drives...

In the late 80s when my high school library got brand new IBM PCs the computer class was still taught using TRS-80s (networked to a single TRS-80 with dual hard drives).

Our computer team would show up toting these machines, when ever other school had state of the art PCs. We kicked their asses.

Wrote the obligatory Snake game for it. Had it been a decade earlier it could have probably made a little money (I did take some personal satisfaction in a couple of kids almost failing out the class because they would play it instead of listening to the teacher).

Oddly, one of the projects I'm still weirdly proud of was writing a networked Battleship program that used the rudimentary network. It was a class project for the 2nd year of CS. I wrote the networking code. It was a ball of hack, but damn if it didn't work.

Anything by James Burke. For example:
- Connections
- The Day The Universe Changed
- The Real Thing