I think the ad is just claiming the pen will still be working when the future brings write-to-text technology into your home, not that the pen itself will do this.

Relevant xkcd

Considering the original meaning of “hit points” referring to how many shells a given ship could take before sinking, 12hp out of a basic spell is still pretty impressive.

Relevant XKCD

I want to know who had the corkscrew.

As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.

Isn’t that just how sponsorships work? Most every major stadium is named after some company or another, because they paid for it.

I have a vague recollection of this fence showing up on Reddit ages ago and everyone telling the owner to get a beware of dog sign instead of fixing it.

Either they followed through, or that’s a pretty good photoshop.

Also, Seattle should be a reference to Microsoft. It seems IBM and Microsoft started an operating system collaboration in 1985, but somebody more knowledgeable is going to have to weigh in.

Isekai is a popular genre of manga and anime involving a character being reborn in another world, or more recently as some weird item or monster. Often this is initiated by the character dying. (See “truck-kun”).

In this scenario, after incorrectly pronouncing ASCII, the American character encoding standard, as isekai, the speaker is hit by an IBM truck (a company famous for its early advances in computing, among other things), and is reborn around the time they had market dominance in personal computers.

I don’t think IBM had much of anything to do with the creation or popularization of the ASCII standard, but memes can’t all be perfectly accurate.

Hope this helps!

This is horrifying. I know abuse of power is nothing new, especially in education and law enforcement, but people find new lows every day it seems. I’m glad others were there to step up and help.

This is a poorly written article. The FBI did not access computers randomly looking for the botnet like it claims, they used the botnet infrastructure to uninstall itself.

There are still extremely valid privacy concerns here, especially considering potential applications of plain view laws, but it should still be presented factually.