Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Something can be breadlike without being bread, in a similar way to how whales are fishlike without being fish.

The dictionary doesn’t dictate how words should be used; it reports how people use them. Consulting a dictionary is a way to find out how “lots of people” use a word.

Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.

It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.

A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.

Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

More important than who works there is who inherits Gabe’s ownership of the company. A new owner can completely change a company and drive out or fire anyone who doesn’t go along with the new direction. Look at what happened with twitter when Musk took over. Or his inheritors could take Valve public and introduce all the issues with that.

That’s not how it works. I’m a door dash driver. We get a base pay, (usually $2-$3 per order but can be more if it’s peak hours) plus tip. The base pay isn’t affected by tips.

We see the total (base pay plus tip) when we are deciding whether to take an order. Orders without tips are rejected by most drivers.

Hear, hear for the examined life!

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I can’t believe you’d do The Betty Hutton Show dirty like this. The nerve to think that Goldie’s Playground is better than the classic that is Goldie Goes Broke!

Chi’tac, cousin of Bra’tac

Yes it is

No it isn’t

There’s a YouTube channel that shows videos of people drowning and being rescued so you can see what it looks like: https://youtube.com/@LifeguardRescue

Be sure to tip your pastor-agents

Society and the economy are not a zero sum game. Killing half the population wouldn’t make the survivors twice as rich. It would send society into chaos which would make the remaining people’s lives far worse.

It stands for “Keep It Simple, Stupid”

Lego Starwars works well and is a lot of fun. Only 2 players, though.

A first aid kit