Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.
For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.
This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.
Yeah, this is exactly the case that the headline reminded me of (I got instantly downvoted for commenting about this for some reason). If they had actually encrypted the data it would have been fine, but BASE64 encoding is not encryption. It's trivially easy to decode base64: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64#the...
The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower.
Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options requires willpower to not over-indulge. A factory worker or subsistence farmer didn't have force themselves to exercise or worry about spending to much time watching TV. They had to work to not starve.
I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.
Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.
> Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.
The result of that though is an excellent example of 'software eating the world' and allowed for a whole pile of other tricks to be pulled (in software!) that would have required more circuitry in other computers. For instance, the tape interface used it, as well as the joystick interface. If you were a bit more adventurous you could use it for analog in as well as analog out.
Although the 6809 was assembly-source level compatible with most of the 6800 opcodes, it was not binary compatible, and was in fact a totally new (better) design.
Same year I faxed them a resume touting my 8-bit assembly experience. Dodged a bullet there, although I'm sure I could have picked up another architecture pretty quickly.
We switched to C++. Nobody had a problem with the switch, although multitheading became a sticky point with some of the developers so we had to write an API to simulate nonpreemptive tasking like the old assembly system.
The imagery of the football players at the buffet brings back memories of my team going to the breakfast buffets at Shoney's the morning of Saturday games at noon. We didn't need lunch and the food was down before game time.
There was a not-very-good Chinese buffet just off campus when I was at college, and religiously after Wednesday practice the whole rugby team would go. After 2 years or so of cleaning them out in about an hour, the owner banned us. :-)
Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.
For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.
This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.