If the Internet has taught me anything, they’re 42 and 69.

And if you kept pressing it, it would tell you off. Back when even installers had more soul than their games do now.

Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.

What happened to Lord Buckethead?

Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.

He was using a decimal comma. The counter offer was 1000 times more than he wanted to pay.

I didn’t count them, but wired itself has a very impressive list of “partners” in their cookie disclaimer too.

Should’ve brought a shrubbery.

“This button turns on the light in the hallway. Sometimes it brings the whole house down on you, but we haven’t found a way to reliably reproduce this. If that happens just crawl from under the rubble, rebuild the house, and try again. This time the light should turn on.“

“Oh, and send us the log messages.”

10 years ago is giving Apple too much credit. They were using Intel processors then, ARM now. For now, you can still run Intel applications, but that won’t last much longer.

More importantly, a 10 year old application is likely to use Carbon instead of Cocoa. Unless it’s an extremely simple application (i.e. hello world), it is unlikely to run.

Then there’s the depreciation of resource forks, a new filesystem, tons and tons of extra security restrictions, etc.

She had a very tough and uncompromising stance on most things, including Northern Ireland and the Troubles. Rather than seek compromise, she increased the military presence there, which many believe exacerbated and prolonged the situation.

It is, of course, much more complex than this, but her policies regarding Northern Ireland are a large factor in why she is not remembered fondly by many Irish.

The points made in the article are that server admins should have policies regarding privacy and data retention, that users should be aware of this possibility, and that developers should ensure more of the users’ data is encrypted at all times.