Is it actually a poparul game? I've never heard of it...

Yep. Hit #1 grossing in the first day, sustained pretty well.

I did find this, which might be useful for anyone who ends up Googling and finding this thread:

https://rachelandrew.github.io/eu-vat/third-parties.html

(although I don't know why the knitting links are listed)

Knitting and crocheting is a big thing, actually. Huge community, people selling done products as well as patterns for you to use. Both are calming hobbies and a nice break from programming, even for just 10 minutes at a workplace power-break or home.

It is meant to be like a switch (schematic symbol for a SPDT switch), i thought?

https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-6f64cb39bfdaae2f7e097f...

I believe Halo, one of the Xbox's most popular games, had its first version (first one you could buy, i mean) on Mac

No, Microsoft bought Bungie while Halo was in development, you could never buy Halo for Mac.

And the Mac version was a very different game from what Halo on the Xbox turned into. You can find old trailers. Among other things I think it was 3rd person with a heavier emphasis on vehicles.

The Mac version was the same as all the others at release, Microsoft had Bungie dumb it down for the Xbox. The trailers you are watching are for what HALO was suppose to be, not what it ended up being.

I know. I was referring to the original design for the game before MS bought Bungie.

As I remember the Mac version of the Xbox game didn't get released until years after the Xbox.

I own and still play Halo for Mac frequently. Not sure what you mean.

I wasn't aware years later another company ported the original Halo.

It was released by Bungie/Microsoft for Mac at about the same time as they released the desktop PC version.

"The firmware is password locked" - how did you enable this?

how is an Apple service provider able to bypass this? if they can, so can an adversary, no?

the different urls are in the source:

    var urls = {
				"web": {
					"doc": "https://docs.google.com/document/create",
					"sheet": "https://sheets.google.com/create",
					"presentation": "https://slides.google.com/create",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
				"ios": {
					"doc": "googledocs://docs.google.com/document/create",
					"sheet": "googlesheets://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?new",
					"presentation": "googleslides://docs.google.com/presentation/create",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
				"android": {
					"doc": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs;end",
					"sheet": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets;end",
					"presentation": "intent://#Intent;package=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.slides;end",
					"drawing": "https://drawings.google.com/create"
				},
			}

How is this on the front page?

Surely if you are coding something to use this, you would be able to write the 30-odd lines that these sql statements are...

also table names like "UserUserRole" don't look right to me.

What would be the reason for this:

// analytics disable if url contains underscore try { if(window.location.href.indexOf('_') > 0) {window['ga-disable-UA-20753548-1'] = true;} } catch(e) {} });

It seems like they store files (presumably both internal and public) under https://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/ so I guess it's the way they represent their non-indexable urls.

The if condition is wrong. This is why functions like indexOf should return a tuple of a boolean and an offset instead of encoding "not found" by returning -1.

The if condition should use >= rather than >, but it otherwise makes sense.

I'm not arguing in favor of writing it that way, but I might argue it's not incorrect as written. location.href can never start with an underscore.

A regex on location.pathname would sure be a lot clearer to read, though.

My guess is that there is a test scenario in which they don't want google analytics to load?

i agree, but if you highlight it, it is much easier on the eyes.

and how many of those are for spam...?