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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 internet.

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 even work?

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 to just be a common cold.)

H.G. Wells knew his stuff

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 reaching space.

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 doing? And how dare they make enforcement agencies actually go through the required legal processes to enforce the law!

That reminds me a lot of the saga of Kim Dotcom

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