Click buy it now, whip out the credit card, wait for delivery, see that it was damaged in transport, fill out a claims form, send it in the mail, wait for a pre-made generic reply that has nothing to do with your claim, call customer service, get put on wait with shitty over-amplified background music with insipid voice-over about how your call is important, get an answer from someone in India who barely speaks english, try to explain the problem for half an hour before asking to speak to the manager, wait another hour on hold with the shitty music and voice-over, get someone who tells you the manager is not available and left two hours ago, slam the phone down on the table and break it because you forgot you were using a cellphone and you can't angrily hang up anymore.
From what I've heard, many foreign purchasers have already begun to look at all U.S.-manufactured encryption technology with a much more skeptical eye as a result of what the NSA has done. That's too bad, because I suspect only a minority of products have been compromised this way.
I think it's more because of the NSA, CIA, etc and the general feeling we get from the U.S.A. that we cannot trust anything you do, period.
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Did they try viewing it in both 40 and 80 columns?
Click buy it now, whip out the credit card, wait for delivery, see that it was damaged in transport, fill out a claims form, send it in the mail, wait for a pre-made generic reply that has nothing to do with your claim, call customer service, get put on wait with shitty over-amplified background music with insipid voice-over about how your call is important, get an answer from someone in India who barely speaks english, try to explain the problem for half an hour before asking to speak to the manager, wait another hour on hold with the shitty music and voice-over, get someone who tells you the manager is not available and left two hours ago, slam the phone down on the table and break it because you forgot you were using a cellphone and you can't angrily hang up anymore.
Well, that was easy.
You know what else was fairly standard at the time? Wearing an onion on your belt.
I was coding before they invented diapers.
If only SPI flash ICs had that capacity for the same price.
Yeah, but what kind? Thermal? Dot matrix? Daisy-wheel?
Oh wait, "line printer"? Holy shit, I just learned something new today.
If it ain't broke, you're not trying!
I think it's more because of the NSA, CIA, etc and the general feeling we get from the U.S.A. that we cannot trust anything you do, period.
Signed,
the rest of the world.
Forget your lengths of wire, meatbag. Where's the free drinks?
Duct tape!
We could ask Apple the same thing: what's with the California names?
Mavericks
Yosemite
El Capitan
With the Raspberry Pi Zero available for only 5 U.S. dollars, is the Arduino obsolete?
Won't somebody think of the ants!? All they got is a center for ants who can't read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too.
Don't compare Zuckerberg with Elon Musk. At least Elon Musk is doing something good with his money.
Zuckerberg only piles up information about everyone, just like Google.
Chi?
You want to publish an e-book but you also want to be able to do things that e-books can't do.
Not just propaganda, but outright lies, too! I mean, time-traveling in a police phone box? That can't be right!
How about a wall for the northern border too, eh?
Compression? You mean lossless like ZIP or lossy like MP4? /reporters
Are they the terrorist group previously known as ISIS?
Do you really thi... SQUIRREL!
But almost all summaries of videos transcripts would end up being summarized into "people are a problem".
Lessig: do you mean a website like www.is-she-legal-yet.com ?
i no rite? dumb 'puters reely r two stoopid too under-stand our complexeted human speach.
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