This guy seemed to be campaigning on not prosecuting war criminals, so military lawyers might be the first ones with difficult decisions to make.

LEGO must be sh**ing themselves at allowing this project to be featured on their UK packaging last Christmas?

Reminds of this bucket-line system

Interesting video about the subject from Ryan McBeth

Similar with “get up, Trinity” from The Matrix’s opening scene.

Pair of marines turn up with a VPN key in a diplomatic bag.

The standard protocol for friends list and “who’s online” would be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

Like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Interactive_Simulation or you mean the match-making protocol?

Seems excessive to convert everything to rust when you can use std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr to eliminate the memory safety issue?

jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

There’s an “editorial complaints” link at the bottom of BBC news website.

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

This computer.

re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?

That was so insane - “we need a unique number, let’s just use the MAC” - it was like people didn’t even think through any of the implications when making ipv6 address schemes.

Similar with the address proposals that ignored the need to minimise the size of core internet routing tables.

Substitute Chaos Bringer to really give everyone flashbacks

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

I like it here, from RimWorld.