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Have a look at Wallabag. You can self host it, it has browser and phone plugins, and works quite well.

The Atari drives (810/1050) could not write bad sectors. They were "intelligent" peripherals that implemented their own command set and were not under low level control by the host computer. There was an aftermarket modification "happy board" that could be installed in the drives to allow it to write many types of bad sectors, allowing for the copying of protected software. The board also improved the speed of the drive.

I like the idea, but the note "So your money will never go to a site that you’ve never visited — and you’ll even get a monthly report showing which publishers your money is supporting." raises the question of who else they may be selling that report to. A detailed report of user's reading preferences and engagement would be valuable to marketers.

The internet is a kind of Babel fish, letting people from different cultures easily interact. Douglas' comment on the outcome seems sadly prescient:

"Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

ADB is also much less flexible. I have Titanium Backup making nightly backups, and then FolderSync automatically pushes them to a SFTP server I run. If something should happen to my phone, I'll lose one day of data. This is all automatic, so I don't have to think about it. A backup like ADB that requires manual intervention is likely to be only done irregularly, and Murphy says that you'll lose your phone just after forgetting to make a backup for weeks. Being able to do this is the only reason I bother to root my Android.

This sounds similar to what Honda was doing in the 70s (with no electronics or injection!) in the CVCC engine (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVCC)

There is a negative incentive as well. Most return policies are thirty days, so if you shop months early you have no recourse should a gift be found to be defective at Christmas.

"It doesn’t necessarily mean that their scientists are better, it’s just that when they say, ‘We need a billion dollars to do this,’ bam, the money comes.” More than that, when their scientists approach the government they aren't treated with scorn, told they are 'fake news', and ignored.

The Brain Bag by itself is not well organized, but add a Brain Cell to hold the laptop, a Snake Charmer for cables, and a Freudian Slip for papers and you're getting somewhere. You're also getting spendy, so there is that. But the bags last forever and show great attention to detail in their construction. (Another risk is that you'll soon find yourself buying a Bihn travel bag, briefcase, etc...)

The classic lowest common denominator manager: "I may not understand what you do, I may not be able to judge your performance, but I can damn well tell if your butt is in your seat by 8 am."

This is something we try to instill in our new ops people. If you don't understand what's going on, don't do anything. There's nothing to be gained by quickly applying the wrong solution.

A truly unique character. He's not kidding about making the Klein bottles either: http://kleinbottle.com/ I've got one on my shelf at home.

Yes. Once you've stated that you were willing to invade privacy like this, saying "but we never would actually do it!" carries little weight.

The NeXT had such a clean aesthetic, even on the original B&W displays that were limited to just four shades of grey. I still use the house icon from the later color systems on my Linux desktop.

Has anyone seen an explanation of how the telnet port on these devices is getting exposed to the internet to be exploited? I would think that most home users are behind a NAT device. Even with UPnP, why would the manufacturer have that port set to be forwarded?

Currently seeing this with the Nissan Leaf. It has a 2G modem built in for their Carwings service. Nissan has sent out a letter that the car will need an update for the data features to keep working, but no details on cost or availability. My local dealer has no idea either.

Trying it out and liking it so far. I've noticed it does make my phone (Droid Turbo) heat up. May be from the frequent data reloads while I'm scrolling.

There's another critical role in many organizations for your manager; defending your team against other managers. Otherwise your highly-motivated group will become less so as they are blamed for failures beyond their control, have their schedules randomly changed for 'urgent' work, etc.

He's not alone. I played both DK games when they were originally released, and eagerly downloaded this new one. It looked great, and the narrator's "So...you've finally returned" was a perfect beginning.

Then I played through the tutorial, and saw it would take four hours to dig through a single block of dirt. I went to the store screen and would happily have paid $20 for a full unlock.

Instead I was faced with multiple gem purchase options, including a "BEST VALUE - $100!".

You have got to be kidding. And while I could make smaller purchases, I have no way of knowing how fast they would be depleted. As the article notes, the game is clearly focused on scamming the money out of you as fast as possible.

So I've uninstalled it without spending anything and am left with further disgust for EA. There's got to be a happier medium ($10 game with cosmetic unlocks?) than this pay-for-every-move methodology. Valve certainly seems to be making it work.

Thinking the same thing, right out of Spook Country.

No matter what chair you're in, if you are going to be sitting all day - get everything out of your back pockets! Otherwise you're putting strain on your lower back, and it might punish you someday.

I bought an Aeron over ten years ago and have never regretted it. Everyone's different, so go try chairs and make sure you have a return period. What feels fine after five minutes in the store may not feel so good after five hours of coding.

Ugh. I worked QA years ago and swore to never do it again. Management hates you because you're telling them the product is not ready to ship. Developers hate you because you're pointing out their errors. No one has your back, and everyone wants to blame you.

The company had literally fired the whole testing department previously for saying the product wasn't ready. With those annoying testers out of the way, out the door it went. And promptly had multiple emergency point releases the following week to fix showstoppers cropping up at the customer sites.

That got them to create a testing department again - but it was still without honor in the company. And firing the whole group again was often discussed, as they were _still_ delaying releases by finding bugs!

I departed. They got eaten in a merger several months later.

This is missing an important point - if you buy, you are stuck there until you can sell it again. That loss of flexibility represents a significant cost of its own.

Scoble, from the discussion thread: "the problem is that that batshit crazy drama queen is more believable than anything Airbnb has said this week"

Classy.

DMCA notices aren't a joke that you can idly send to anyone who annoys you. You are legally liable for them, and telling a judge "Oh, we just send them automatically without checking" is not going to help your case.

From the article:

There was also another reason why setting a story in the present day is more attractive than looking into a future even half a century away. This was because, said Mr Gibson, using that setting would necessitate explaining away present-day problems such as global warming.

"If I write something set 60 years in the future I am going to have to explain how humanity got there and that's becoming quite a big job," he said.

Ouch.