We were supposed to burn all GIFs for being patent encumbered (LZW compression) over two decades ago... Nothing of value would have been lost.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fburnallgifs.org%2Farchiv...

That GIFs are still around proves we are in the worst technological timeline.

DST is why the extraterrestrials refuse to make contact with our civilization. It presumes no intelligent life.

Agreed... and yet we still have people worrying about git master branches. ðY(TM)

Itâ(TM)s true, vim is terrible. Use the proper unmolested vi.

Tokenization to protect your card from vendors and requires your fingerprint for security vs tap which requires nothing but the card.

Home Depot and Target can't lose the credit card info you never gave them.

That's a very nice step forward.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

3½" diskettes were never referred to as a hard disk, like their 5 1/4 counterparts they were referred to as floppies. Named after the internal magnetic medium, not the casing.

Right... But I'm lucky to still have one public IP let alone another. End users can barely get IPs. What few you get have to go through hassles of justification and extra fees. I think I'd rather live in a world where it's common place to just hand people a swath of IPs.

I do believe it's required for VoLTE - which is effectively SIP and IPv6 if I'm not mistaken.

In spite of that... Still no sign of IPv6 over LTE on Rogers - even though my devices support it...

The ones we can't build on our 1980s protocol.

True, but I hope to see a proper multihoming standard. Prefix translation is ugly.

So you're cool with the Internet being forever limited to cat videos? The applications for the Internet were unforeseen. It changed the world in ways nobody could predict. IPv6 will pave the way for new applications in a way just as significant... But you can't see past today's furry thrills.

No my argument would be the equivalent of being against penicillin curing your infection but causing you to lose a leg... We have a better cure witbout the drawback.