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Previously
Remember when you couldn't get a virus by opening an e-mail?
Oh yeah. Remember when email was plain ASCII only?
I miss those days.
This might not be the perfect place to express that particular regret.
C.
I'm aware :D
Seems legit.
They should have shown that to the author of the season 1 X-Files episode Ghost in the Machine, the intelligent killer computer there had no problem with hacking into a turned of computer at night.
Oy... I loved The X-Files during its original run, but can't see the title in the same sentence as the word "computer" without remembering one of the worst episodes in the show's history... written by William-fucking-Gibson!
Between the GameStop bullshit and the trainwreck of Cyberpunk 2077, this shitty ep. seems more timely than ever.
Still stupid, but timely.
Just run ZFS export and pull all the drives out every night...
I really need to know what the charge is for the bulletin board I'm using.
They tell me it's "free" but I don't believe them!
Commander Adama taps head: Cylons can't take over the Battlestar's network if there's no network.
Zoom v1.0 had better sound quality and bigger screens than my Zoom today. Why do new versions of software such more and more each release?
Quite simply...
mcmillen: Joe Biden is the final boss of Video Conferencing
That's Billy Van, IIRC, best known for playing nearly every character in the "kids" show Hilarious House of Frightenstein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poW0OJGT9C4
...and Luba Goy, best known for the Royal Canadian Air Farce. "hm hm hm. Me husband and I..."