Back when Facebook and Twitter came out, I looked into it. I remember Zucherberg stating that they make their money selling your data. So, I never signed up. Likewise, my 17yro grandaughter here does not do it either. Why would I want to have that company use MY data? On the other hand, if FB was not allowed to use your data, it would go belly up shortly.
I wonder if Amy Kochublar is on F.B.? I wouldn't know. But if she is (Twitter is similar), the what the hell is she complaining about?
I used to watch Flash Gordon as a kid! Rockets looked like V2's. And as they went thru space, the sparks out the back would drop down, and the smoke would go up! I bet the NASA scientists cannot duplicate that yet!
Indeed, guy wires. Or, even guy ropes. On my self supporting ham radio tower, it used to sway 3 ft at the top. Alarming. So I put in a set of 3 ropes, just 3/8 diameter. I used non-stretch rope. Sway now only 12" of less. And less jerky. About $50.
I envision 3 ropes on that rocket. When its time to launch, just cut them off at ground level and let them dangle. They will vaporize in no time. Of course, rocket scientists are going to have apoplexy over this suggestion.
December 26, 1966. I switched to Linux, never looked back. Here is my credo: It it doesn't run Linux, or if such and such is not available for Linux, I don't do *any* business with them. Period, end of story. Bill Gates and Tim Cook can kiss my Alaskan Arse.
... a year later, at Marquette University (Milwaukee), as a EE Sophomore, I got put in with the IBM 1620, and in 1965 on the IBM 7040, which is pretty much the same as your 7094. The 7040 had magnetic core memory. You've heard the joke about the IBM repairman that showed up, opened the panel, and tapped a memory card? He charged $1000. $5 for the tap, $995 for knowing where. Well, the exact thing happened there at MU. I was there, although the billing part I was not privvy to. Interestingly, next time, WE tapped the cards. No luck. IBM rep came, looked at the front panel, opened it up, ONE tap, bingo!
My friends went on to PDP-8 and PDP-10 after college. I did not go on with computer career until much later. Altair 8800 which ran RINGS around the Apple II. I loved it. CP/M, Altair MITS DOS, 8" floppies. I eventually got a hard drive for it. Size of a washing machine. You opened the lid and changed the 5MB platter (another 5MB was fixed). It had an air compressor, gauges, parallel interface. Switch the size to fit in your fist. Turn it on, and the compressor and motors would start up. I still have the 8800 (and 2 others and an IMSAI 8080). Those 8 bit machines were very efficient. All mine had 64K static RAM, and used 2K of the upper part mapped to a EEPROM card for booting. Loved it. I still admire them. Specially the blinking lights.
I tell you, when they came out with Apples and PC's with NO blinking lights, it was the end of an era. Who here can remember writing a program in binary, writing it to ram byte-at-a-time, examine, and step thru the program with the front panel switches? Once debugged, write it to EEPROM or floppy. My Altair at 2mhz speed would not read 5" DD floppies, so I put in a Cromemco Z80 card (same 2 mhz, but had some mass move instructions that allowed DD to be read. I got this old Altair on 8" and 5" flops. A later MFM hard drive had a built-in buffer, so you tell it to read a sector, and you can get it byte by byte (or block by block) at your leisure. I never got around to do IDE or later HDD's. I think a USB interface would be dead easy. But at 73, my days of writing machine language programs are in the past.
I like it. And you designate which part holds your files. Family pictures, keep after the "wipe". The Kiddie Porn and the Nuclear Secrets, "real wipe." They would not suspect a thing.
Ah! Hark the days of Netscape Navigator 2.0, and the little Lizard Throbber on the corner! (can you install the old lizard throbber back? Firefox 61/Linux here.)
BSD was born of an unholy alliance between AT&T and "The Regents of the University of California." Then along came "The SCO Group" and started throwing shit and rotten eggs, until they mired in it. Poor BSD was abandoned by the New Culture.
OIn December 26, 1995 my Win 95 hard drive died. I put in a *huge* 250 mb Maxtor and installed Linux. Caldera CND. Soon I went to Red Hat, Ubuntu and now Mint. I never paid much attention to BSD. All the Action was (and is) in Linux. Windows is proprietary, only the unwashed masses deal with it. BSD? Well, it was always scary because you use BSD, you end up tangling with the likes of SGI, SCO, AT&T, Burroughs, and etc and its like being a mouse in a room full of Elephants.
I abhor mail clients that work by publishing your email as web pages (most gMail, Hotmail etc). I also do not like HTML in my mail, nor do I like linked pictures and graphics. I use Thunderbird for my (Linux) computer, and K9 for Android, although I have also used AquaMail for Android.
So far Trump has done nothing wrong. I wish he was able to do the rest of what he wants. I am also sure that he would have some choice comments to make about UBI, but, Alas, he is not a Slashdotter.
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Back when Facebook and Twitter came out, I looked into it. I remember Zucherberg stating that they make their money selling your data.
So, I never signed up. Likewise, my 17yro grandaughter here does not do it either. Why would I want to have that company use MY data?
On the other hand, if FB was not allowed to use your data, it would go belly up shortly.
I wonder if Amy Kochublar is on F.B.? I wouldn't know. But if she is (Twitter is similar), the what the hell is she complaining about?
I used to watch Flash Gordon as a kid! Rockets looked like V2's. And as they went thru space, the sparks out the back would drop down, and the
smoke would go up! I bet the NASA scientists cannot duplicate that yet!
Your comment, sir, is rude and inappropriate.
Indeed, guy wires. Or, even guy ropes. On my self supporting ham radio tower, it used to sway 3 ft at the top. Alarming. So I put in a set of 3 ropes,
just 3/8 diameter. I used non-stretch rope. Sway now only 12" of less. And less jerky. About $50.
I envision 3 ropes on that rocket. When its time to launch, just cut them off at ground level and let them dangle. They will vaporize in no time. Of course,
rocket scientists are going to have apoplexy over this suggestion.
I live in Alaska. Right now +28F outside. Some snow. Love it. Can't imagine 70-90 weather. Itchy. Bugs. Sweat.
December 26, 1966. I switched to Linux, never looked back. Here is my credo: It it doesn't run Linux, or if such and such is not available for Linux,
I don't do *any* business with them. Period, end of story. Bill Gates and Tim Cook can kiss my Alaskan Arse.
... a year later, at Marquette University (Milwaukee), as a EE Sophomore, I got put in with the IBM 1620, and in 1965 on the IBM 7040, which is pretty much
the same as your 7094. The 7040 had magnetic core memory. You've heard the joke about the IBM repairman that showed up, opened the panel, and
tapped a memory card? He charged $1000. $5 for the tap, $995 for knowing where. Well, the exact thing happened there at MU. I was there, although the
billing part I was not privvy to. Interestingly, next time, WE tapped the cards. No luck. IBM rep came, looked at the front panel, opened it up, ONE tap,
bingo!
My friends went on to PDP-8 and PDP-10 after college. I did not go on with computer career until much later. Altair 8800 which ran RINGS around the
Apple II. I loved it. CP/M, Altair MITS DOS, 8" floppies. I eventually got a hard drive for it. Size of a washing machine. You opened the lid and changed
the 5MB platter (another 5MB was fixed). It had an air compressor, gauges, parallel interface. Switch the size to fit in your fist. Turn it on, and the
compressor and motors would start up. I still have the 8800 (and 2 others and an IMSAI 8080). Those 8 bit machines were very efficient. All mine had
64K static RAM, and used 2K of the upper part mapped to a EEPROM card for booting. Loved it. I still admire them. Specially the blinking lights.
I tell you, when they came out with Apples and PC's with NO blinking lights, it was the end of an era. Who here can remember writing a program in binary,
writing it to ram byte-at-a-time, examine, and step thru the program with the front panel switches? Once debugged, write it to EEPROM or floppy.
My Altair at 2mhz speed would not read 5" DD floppies, so I put in a Cromemco Z80 card (same 2 mhz, but had some mass move instructions that
allowed DD to be read. I got this old Altair on 8" and 5" flops. A later MFM hard drive had a built-in buffer, so you tell it to read a sector, and you can
get it byte by byte (or block by block) at your leisure. I never got around to do IDE or later HDD's. I think a USB interface would be dead easy. But
at 73, my days of writing machine language programs are in the past.
The poster is not a retard. He is a fucktard.
As proof, look at how the winning countries (Germany, Japan) have imposed the stupid metric system upon the USA!
Hell the farmer's water has been throttled for years by L.A.
Democrat: A bunch of guys that get together to decide what they are going to do with YOUR money.
No, not true. They BID for the spectrum and won. This has been going on for a while and has
generated billions of dollars for the US Government.
Google "spectrum auctions" if you don't believe me.
God help you if they finally unlock the journalist's phone and find Fake News!
I like it. And you designate which part holds your files. Family pictures, keep after the "wipe". The Kiddie Porn and the Nuclear Secrets, "real wipe."
They would not suspect a thing.
... just take a shit and give it to them.
Ah! Hark the days of Netscape Navigator 2.0, and the little Lizard Throbber on the corner!
(can you install the old lizard throbber back? Firefox 61/Linux here.)
I had Zero interest in Twitter, until that great President put it on the map.
Democrats: Al Gore Invented the Internet
Republicans: Donald Trump Resurrected Twitter.
Fact.
No real UNIX/LINUX nerd would be caught dead saying "PS C:\Users\cdreimer> dir"
130 years ago they would have said "Your Slip is Showin, Ma'am."
BSD was born of an unholy alliance between AT&T and "The Regents of the University of California." Then along came "The SCO Group" and started throwing shit and rotten eggs, until they mired in it. Poor BSD was abandoned by the New Culture.
OIn December 26, 1995 my Win 95 hard drive died. I put in a *huge* 250 mb Maxtor and installed Linux. Caldera CND. Soon I went to Red Hat,
Ubuntu and now Mint. I never paid much attention to BSD. All the Action was (and is) in Linux. Windows is proprietary, only the unwashed masses
deal with it. BSD? Well, it was always scary because you use BSD, you end up tangling with the likes of SGI, SCO, AT&T, Burroughs, and etc and
its like being a mouse in a room full of Elephants.
RIP. I won't bring flowers.
Hacker heaven!
I abhor mail clients that work by publishing your email as web pages (most gMail, Hotmail etc). I also do not like HTML in my mail, nor do I like linked
pictures and graphics. I use Thunderbird for my (Linux) computer, and K9 for Android, although I have also used AquaMail for Android.
In other news, Nancy Pelosi blamed the African Rift on Donald Trump
OK, talking to a true-blue Californian Democrat:
The Californian says, "We have it figured out. We get UBI, we do not have to work anymore!"
And I ask, "But who is going to do all the needed work?"
"Ah, simple," says he. "The illegal immigrants!"
"But they don't pay taxes!"
Then, with a quick wink he says "We are still working on that minor problem!"
So far Trump has done nothing wrong. I wish he was able to do the rest of what he wants. I am also sure that he would have some choice comments to make about UBI, but, Alas, he is not a Slashdotter.
I ordered from Amazon Distribution Network my "Penguin Stuffie" and placed it on my desktop.