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  1. Re: No monopoly here. on Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off the Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Woz and Jobs got started in business producing devices for sale by selling Blue boxes. That they later decided on the name Apple Computer when they started making the Apple 1 means they then adopted that as a company name.

    In a strict legal sense they were separate entities. In the sense of getting a start producing and selling gadgets the Woz/Jobs duo started out selling blue boxes.

    They couldn't very well put a brand name on their Blue Boxes even though they had a thriving business making and selling them, so technically they weren't a 'company.' They were contraband devices, which was why it was lucrative to build and sell them.

  2. Shouldn't you be trolling the 'haters'??

    Oh, wait....

  3. Re:Isn't this a waste? on Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So you believe that Apple doesn't monitor your connection to the endpoints they control?

  4. Re:Nintendo added to my boycott list on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty poor application of the meme. The Wii was a 'high water mark' console. Owning one is mainstream, not the mark of a gamer who likes Nintendo. How many 3DS carts do you own? What's your favorite Wii U game.

  5. Re: A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not stink nearly as much.

  6. Re: A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The real advantage of banning smoking would be that those people smelling up the entryways of building, and littering butts all over... you could just make a call and have them arrested.

  7. Re:Isn't this a waste? on Safari Tests 'Not Secure' Warning For Unencrypted Websites (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google needs SSL, because they control the endpoints, and don't need any of 'their' info leaking out to anybody else.

    Apple is kinda keen on that, too. Not as ravenous as Google with people in general, but they have a strong herding instinct for their
    'sheep.'

  8. Re:Nintendo added to my boycott list on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If all you have is a Wii, you were never a real Nintendo customer. That's just a mainstream console that 'everybody was buying.'

  9. Re:Nintendo can DIAF on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nintendo comes out with new good stuff all the time. I am really looking forward to the new Animal Crossing game for the Switch, whenever it comes out. It won't be just a retread of the old A.C. Every new version of Animal Crossing they have come out with has new fun stuff in it.

  10. Re: Copyrights Hijack History on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's weird, because there are countless stories about valuable vintage cars that get discovered stored away in a barn or outbuilding. Often, the owner gets a lot of money for them from a collector.

  11. Re: Brussels flies up its own colon on YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    What this really means is that Youtube how-to videos will no longer have loud and obnoxious music tracks playing during the video. That's a good thing.

  12. Re:...every elder a role model? on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    All you've got to do is provide them with youtube videos and tide pods.

  13. Re: easy as hell to avoid on What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook apps should already be uninstalled or disabled.

  14. Re: Of course on How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 2

    Comprehension is merely the delusion that complete understanding could ever occur.

  15. Re:Only The Stable Ones Are Still Around on How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    The point is that mechanistic analysis, in the form of 'modeling' can never delve far enough into the real world. Not some warmed over 'survival of the fittest' pabulum.

    There are trillions of interactions within 'the ecosystem' to a degree that it simply can't be described or completely understood. To the degree that it's a little conceited to call it 'the ecosystem' as if we have enough grasp of it to even call it a system.

  16. I agree. It's so archaic that they are using octal. Why can't they use hexadecimal or binary like the rest of us?

  17. Re:Cloudflare ROCKS! on Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't they a content-providing, aka DRM type delivery vehicle?

  18. Wow, the literal use of fishing jargon by an infamous troll.

  19. I suppose the "ham sandwich" could be the size of the pizza box enclosure a Sun Sparcstation 20 came in. It's the same or a similar form factor.

  20. Re: No monopoly here. on Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off the Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple started out selling illegal blue boxes to foreign exchange college students that allowed them to make free international long distance calls. Selling tone generator boxes used to steal from the phone company. That was what got Jobs and Wozniak in the hardware selling business, and part of what funded the start of Apple.

  21. Re: At last... on The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The President is an old fashioned booze and night club sort of guy. Weed is anathema to people into that. The guy owns an actual casino, for pete's sake.

  22. Re:hmm. Hopevully, no real changes on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I had great service at Saturn in the mid 1990s. Your point is mostly irrelevant.

  23. Re:So, we know the fate of Tesla now on Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    HP is Hewlett and Packard's faults. No founder can live forever.

    When a company is as successful as HP was during the rise of the ubiquitous computer, all sorts of critters climb aboard. Witness the same phenomenon at work with Apple.

  24. Re: Sales are slowing...So on Apple Will No Longer Reveal How Many iPhones, iPads, and Macs It Sells (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I probably didn't know that because I've banned the Google Play Store from my phone.

  25. The clue is, not a hell of a lot. Throwaway comment. oh well.