You buy a game. Every time you start the game it phones home for permission. The company decides to shut down the server that gives permission. You can’t play the game anymore. If this is like other initiatives in the same vein it won’t stop the game maker from shutting down the server, but it will mandate that they either open source the server so you can run your own, or build the game in such a way that you can still play it (maybe single player only) after the server is gone.

Help a non-European understand… So, if you get enough signatures, it becomes law? Direct democracy?

And Fry’s waaa. The service was usually bad but if you know what you need they had it. One time thought we got help from a sales lady who was all about "oh that is just right over here… The wife and I bought his-n-hers laptops in the days of windows 98.

I live in Sacramento, but I drive to San Jose for Central Computers or now MicroCenter to buy gear… I buy nothing mail order, porch pirates are bad enough, but when the driver himself is the thief, that is just it.

And you should not. But perhaps you would not want the fares to rise?

<gangster> It would be a shame if you were not to pay and had more ads than content. </gangster>

For that machine, I wrote a “John Conway’s game of LIFE” that used the screen memory to hold the life array. Nowadays I rock an i5 running Linux.

s100 Represent!

S100 bus kit computer, a Polymorphic Polly 88.

The test key has the expected answer, which may even be wrong. If the test taker responds with something else, even if it solves the problem, it is not the expected answer. It’s stupid.

Teachers that don’t accept an unexpected but true answer are not teaching. The test taker had a correct take, one of the pizzas could be bigger than the other. It was not specified in the question. I am so glad I am out of school

I had an idea sort of like that - media for your camera or cell-camera that was write once, could not be erased or changed, did not forget (you know ssd’s and thumb drives forget as the stranded charge leaks away) - Each picture cryptographically signed with GPS and date and time and author/photographer.

So say we all.

“What do you want for dinners next week?” while planning the groceries list is not small talk. What shall we do this weekend. Its not “what is the meaning of life” but it is important still the same. What Kitty just did is also important because we both care about Kitty’s well being. There is lots to talk about that is not deep philosophical stuff, but still important.

The Sears appliance departments usually had at least one with a clear front for demonstration purposes… But you know what happened to them