Follow these instructions right now, don't read further then the step you've taken:

1) Find a coin

2) Decide what heads and tails will be

3) Flip the coin.

4) look at the result as the final result.

5) Are you happy with that result? If answer is yes, that's your decision. If answer is no, then pick the other option.

They forgot to mention that their youngest daughter was hearing voices in the static she could talk to.

It's pretty simple, they need you to obey orders even though you hate the guy giving the orders, and even though you hate the orders.

Boot Camp is trying to emulate the worst case scenario when you're in the middle of combat, i.e. do the order that you're given, even though you don't really want to be there, you don't really want to kill some guy you don't know, and you think the officer is a dick.

Did facebook actually trademark "Timeline"?

If we'd just be content with the status quo, we'd still be using quite a lot of these ideas: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-famous-scientific-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-wrong.php

It's one thing to complain that it's a hassle to change into a newer format, it's quite another to complain about progress.

Besides, if you really think it's _that_easy_ to create a data format that stands the test of time, go ahead: Make your own.

I would think that any judge would throw out a case against this because the developers are in Dolittle mode, i.e. willing to change it. wanting to change it. waiting to change it.

You grow new tastebuds replacing the whole batch every 2 weeks, so I guess if that friend would stop eating spicy food for 2 weeks you could test whether this is a problem with the tastebuds, or just a conditioned appetite from overuse.

That it requires more energy is an added upside to the tiles, it's a selling point.

With the current health issues people have with not enough exercise and hyper-caloric diets, having these is actually a (very mild) health benefit for the people. People who are already getting enough exercise won't mind the tiny bit extra, so the only people left who will complain about this are lazy fucks.

And I hope you're not telling everyone on slashdot that you're a lazy fuck, are you?

Good input.

I don't want to understand how people can be flummoxed by algebra and symbols instead of specific numbers. That's like being flummoxed by the male/female symbols on toilets instead of specific people.

Letters are a generic placeholder for any number, get over it.

If the data actually gets sold, that means greed of the few has won over fairness to the many.

Everyone and his mother would judge that if a company ceases to exist, then any privacy data should be deleted. The decision to give your data to a company is tied to the reputation of that company.

"no guarantee in a bankruptcy" should not mean "let the wolves rip the thing to shreds without exemption" it should mean that the grey-area should be judged to the favor of the security of the majority. there's just too many ways this could be abused by selling it off.

Pardon me, but the phrase "You are what you eat" was coined some time ago.

What you eat has always had an effect on you, it is interesting that it's at the RNA level, and will mean that in the future, the doctor won't need to get you pills to get you better from a condition, just a menu.

Think of it this way:

A person goes into a shop, sees "Star Wars" on the shelf (never seen the movie before), and mulls over whether he'd like to purchase it or not for his newly purchased VHS. Then decides to risk it and enjoys the movie.

The same person 30 years later goes into a shop and sees "Star Wars on BluRay" on the shelf and mulls over whether he'd like to purchase it for his newly bought Bluray player. He sees that this particular copy has new-bits which he doesn't want, but he still thinks that he would like to own a better version of the movie, but he wants the original movie in better quality, not the revised version. This he can't have. The person who owns the copyright is not interested in selling him what he wants.

There will always be 2 options: 1) to forego the purchase and make do with the fine films by other people not as insane, or 2) acquire a copy without the help of the copyright owner of the originals.

It's crippling to make an account on facebook and accept friend-requests from real friends and check on it once in a while?

don't be an idiot.

As you say, it's a way to contact people, all you need to do is make yourself available on it, and if something pops up, there'll be a red notice mark you can click on to check it out, you can ignore all the rest of it.

Can you ask them, nay demand that they add 1 single feature: Make manually-saving-a-file a thing of the past. If there was ever something an OS should do is to make sure that what you're working on doesn't get trashed just because you forgot to save a file manually for 5 minutes.

The Google wave protocol is a first step in the right way, Apple Lions' autosave feature is another step, but Windows really needs this as well.

Consumers aren't demanding anything.

It's the CEOs and people in the corporations that is demanding higher profits, that's why this is happening. If there wasn't this greed at the executive level, this kind of thing wouldn't happen.