Time travel as a story telling mechanic has always been… unreliable, at best. When you get to the end, everyone is asking the same question, “But, why did you have to travel back in time to 1493 to save the professor? Why didn’t you just go back to yesterday and stop him from going back …
I remember a time when I was seven or eight years old, one of my overindulged and brain damaged cousins told me that crabapples were perfectly safe to eat right off the tree. We went all around Shediac (a shit-hole town too small for autocorrect) picking green apples and eating them.
After they said that, I took a deep breath and tried really hard not to speak as I exhaled.
It steals every cycle from the CPU, revealing a massive security vulnerability with iOS. Ctrl-alt-delete is wired to a hardware interrupt that software can’t bypass. Left button-right button reset requires iOS to recognize the double sided button presses. If it can’t think, it can’t reset.
We all get so many scam calls from unscrupulous people trying to convince us that we owe the IRS our soul. Or, that we should buy the extended warranty on the car we don’t own, and that Microsoft needs to speak to us about how our computer might have an unsecured IP address. Crooks trying …
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