I think the point is more that when they decide they don’t want to run the servers anymore they should have to release the server code or in some other way allow the server to be run locally so that the game isn’t useless.

Also, until about 15 years ago, it was completely expected that you would buy a software once and they would still run their servers. That’s why windows used to cost like $350 in mid 2000s dollars, you could still reasonably expect to get online updates for it years later.

I get what you are saying, but the Saturn V was never intended to be an ICBM. Depending on what numbers you look at too, they weren’t actually that well funded. Some of the largest estimates that I’ve seen place NASA’s inflation adjusted budget between 1960 and 1973 at just under $600 billion. Or roughly half of what we’re spending in one year on the military currently.

To put it another way, at its absolute peak budget NASA received roughly 4.6% of the current military budget.

One of the most interesting things about the Spider-Man cannon to me is that they keep flipping back-and-forth between he can generate the web biologically and it’s a device that he made and that neither seems to affect the story really. Honestly, I’ve never been able to decide which version I like better. Growing up I was a bit more partial to the biological version just because that’s what I was first exposed to. On the other hand, I was a fan of Steel, Iron Man, and Batman, for their self-made superheroness so I liked the idea of the homemade web shooter too.

Pulling the script out of the vague recesses of my brain, what we did was more like:

ECHO pwned!
start /c start.bat
start /c start.bat
start /c start.bat
start.bat

Then make a shortcut, call it Internet Explorer with the blue E, and wait.

I also wrote a script that would create 1000 folders in your network drive and then change the owner so you couldn’t delete them. We used that one when people left their machine unlocked.

Unfortunately, that’s just not possible everywhere. For instance, where I live the water table is like 6 inches below the ground. Pretty much every house here has a crawlspace foundation. The few that do have basements pretty much all have mold issues and need sump pumps, etc.

It’s the mustache. He was 33 here.

A similar attack used to be able to be done in Windows by creating a batch file that calls itself at the end.

We used to do it where it would open the command prompt several times and then call itself, so after a couple seconds you would have dozens or hundreds of command prompt windows opening. On a system that only had 128 megs of RAM it didn’t take long for the system to become unresponsive.

That would mean canceling all the pork to Senator’s states. He already tried to kill the NASA budget last year and Congress didn’t let him. Money rolling into their states seems to be one of the few things Congress will still fight for right now.

Just to be clear, the idea of the Space Force was first publicly fielded during the Bush administration, and pushed closer to fruition by the Obama administration. Basically nothing in this country happens under one president.

People being bad thinkers doesn’t mean that we should hand all thinking over to computers.

AI doesn’t have cognition and it doesn’t do research, it’s a piece of software that cannot think or learn.

Thank you, I was annoyed when the source link just went to a blue sky post from some rando who themselves didn’t post their source.

I would also question the second part of their name as they have only produced one kind of ‘AI’ software as far as I know, as opposed to say IBM who’s various AI implementations have beat chess masters and won Jeopardy.

But a picture is worth a thousand words!

REI continues to confuse me, they had such a good thing going and they seem intent on ruining it. I really don’t understand it. What could possibly be the benefit of running a co-op this way? Do they think they’re going be able to un co-op it and people are still going to shop there?

Fun fact: The connector is called a DE-15, VGA is just the protocol using it in this application.

I mean… you have been able to do things like that for a long time. You used to be able to use cable toners to listen to conversations on analog phone lines for instance.

The Romans very specifically invaded what we today call Britain because the people who lived there were matriarchal. I am Cherokee, my tribe was also matriarchal before white people showed up. In my tribe, traditionally, when you get married your possessions belong to your wife and you join the clan of your wife.

Patriarchy has never been as widespread as patriarchs would like you to believe.

Roman society is pretty much the basis for the western world. The Romans are largely the reason for the rampant patriarchy we have today among other things, for instance.

Interesting, I know plastic tiles were fairly popular from the 50s-70s, but I’ve never heard of that being bad in the shower other than just cracking off like it does everywhere else too. I wonder what yours is?