> Yes, Ukraine is a democracy, but also one that still contains some unsavory elements
And you think getting rid of those 'unsavory elements', replacing them with an authoritarian, warmongering Putin led puppet government would be an improvement for the world?
" K Foundation Burn A Million Quid....... compiles stills from the film, accounts of events and viewer reactions, and an image of the brick that was manufactured from the fire's ashes. A film consisting of a static three-minute shot of the brick, "This Brick", was shown at London's Barbican Centre prior to Drummond and Cauty's [The K Foundation] performance as 2K in the same year."
They probably do. Elon's other company apparently has a global map view of every starlink tereminal and it's exact location that he watches. Why anyone would trust a product of his beats me...
And yes, they really did do it. (This was the same blokes who, at the top of the UK charts, as an artistic statement deleted their entire music back catalogue, meaning you could no longer buy their music. In 1992, that really did mean no more sales of their music and no more profit for them.)
> The "don't be easily annoyed" rule is increasingly needed.
Interestingly....
I recall a post on here where a bloke got very indignant about the innocent use of the term 'Chinaman'; something this Englishman (sharing an office with two Frenchmen, an Irishman and a Dane) found rather odd, especially considering the complainant was not Chinese themselves.
I think this was my introduction to the idea of the 'modern' internet user being far too easily offended (on somebody else's behalf to boot!), coupled with a modern desire to engage in culture wars and internet virtue signalling. This has certainly not lead to rational and healthy discourse.
I'm willing to bet only Private Eye readers (where to story broke and who continue to demand justice) are aware of this debacle and the shear scale of misery it has caused; all due to software being considered infallible.
As long as we hold onto the USENET tradition, that all posts pointing out a spelling or grammatical error must themselves contain such an error. Including punctuation.
> I suspect the modems will be around for a very long time.
No they won't.
'Dial up' modems need a PSTN line to work. The roll out of full fibre networks means analogue PSTN is going the way of the dodo. You cannot get a new PSTN line anymore in Blighty. In Estonia and the Netherlands (IIRC) the PSTN switch off is already complete.
Surely there’s a vendor that will sell you a v.22bis modem that works over VoIP if that’s what your two mainframes need to sync up, and you’re buying the multimillion dollar support contract…
Cable company here (US) still sells service that has POTS over cable modem. Just plug your modem into the cable modem tele slot and you have a dialton. Now, are you getting super high speed connections, no, but that's not what you need for most hacking like this. Not that I recommend hacking from your own house.
I should have restricted that statement to include the United States of America. PSTN's are still utilized, deployed and actively sold in most of the US. As a side note I recently tried to get a telco to remove a phone line and two poles and they refused to do it. Their excuse was that they might one day run fiber over it despite there already being a fiber network here. I hope they do as my fiber ISP really does need a competitor. If they really do run the fiber over those poles vs burying it that would be amusing.
To your point I am sure some day the US will stop selling access to the PSTN but some old systems will hold on for dear life, government contracts and all. Governments are kindof slow to migrate to newer things.
I've been secretly hoping an over-sized big rig would take them out but I would not want anyone to get hurt. They are the only poles within a few miles and are an eye-sore.
And you think getting rid of those 'unsavory elements', replacing them with an authoritarian, warmongering Putin led puppet government would be an improvement for the world?
What utter drivel.