Voting for both QC and http://girlswithslingshots.com/ as my favorite non-geek strips.

And why are they suddenly so powerful?

Sums it up nicely. Using a tablet for professional work is like using a minivan to move your furniture. Perhaps it does the job, but you'll always get things done faster and better with tools designed for the task.

Did you already forget what site you're on?

They do, actually. It's just not as interesting news fodder, so nobody hears it.

Even an elliptical orbit is right twice a year.

Always test a deployment of new hardware within a single department, or smaller group, before implementing it throughout the building.

...of a subject-specific TLD was so that it could be easily blocked. Don't want .xxx domains in your workplace? Filter any URL that uses it. Same here for those countries. It's not supposed to "promote" homosexuality, it's supposed to make it easier to identify.

I don't think the poster meant that patenting and commercializing is inherently evil; I think he meant that he wouldn't be able to download it for free and use it himself for fun.

My very own Evil Wil Wheaton action figure can be a reality!

...which you can only employ if you're actually in the room, which thwarts most burglars anyway.

...then I might have to run for office myself.

It occurred to me that it ought to be in the economic interests of any space agency to push for an astronaut core PRIMARILY made up of women.

They are (on average) smaller, lighter, and eat less, all advantages in an industry where every ounce of extra weight can cost hundreds of dollars.

In the early days of space flight, astronauts were converted test pilots who were all male due to military recruiting rules, which have now changed.

They are equal, if not better, to their male counterparts when it comes to mathematical and scientific ability, and we have finally reached a point where culture has stopped telling them otherwise.

And without a doubt, it would be a public relations coup for the first agency to send up an all-female crew into space.

..."building an app graphically" is to "learning programming" what "using a calculator" is to "learning math." You've replaced an actual understanding of the underlying process with a bunch of buttons to be punched.

It's only still "programming" if you have the knowledge to do it without the tools, but not the time.

That can generate just as many complaints. Recently, George Takei's Facebook page put up a funny photo which nevertheless contained a picture of an old man's naked butt. Complaints were made to Facebook, and Facebook immediately deleted the image. Not blocked, not hid -- deleted. Takei complained that it should be policy for Facebook to hold the image out-of-sight somewhere until a defense can be made by the one who posted it.

Admins can make it easy to remove stuff, or hard to remove stuff, but anything in between requires a lot of moderation which most admins are too easily bored by.