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Re:What Happened to Text Inputs? on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:35AM (#33908944)
Why do we keep screwing up the simplest parts of web interfaces?
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"President Obama signed an executive order outlining emergency control of the Internet, and thus the Internet kill switch was born."

WTF?? Is there an Internet kill switch capability? Will it work if invoked?

Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:48AM (#15372617)
This is not new. Cisco made a big router (BFR) and also a huge router (HFR). Among their designers, the 'F' did not stand for 'fast'.
Re:Unlocking Cellphones Becomes Illegal Saturday in the U.S. on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:56PM (#5132093)
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with AT&T Wireless. I went on their website and found their "Online Chat" support. I told the support person that I needed to unlock my phone so I could use a prepaid SIM while traveling overseas. Three minutes later I had my unlock code, no questions asked.
It's a lot like putting an assert() in your code. assert(m&m != brown);
Serious answer: The bright orange/red bar saturates my red cone cells, leaving an "afterglow" green bar burned into my vision. It fades away after a minute or two.