Maybe the passengers need swimmies? or life jackets so they can be tossed overboard! either way, +1 to explanation being clear, concise, informative, and funny.

I know this is /. but perhaps a less gadgety would be better. Offer minor savings as incentive for people to read their own meter, and have the meter read by the company every 6 months or a year. A fee + the difference in meter reads could be charged if you falsify as they would know your usage anyway from the company reading. It could even go so far as to have a unique identifier on the meter and require you to e-mail a picture of your meter on x day of every month.

Where do I find a wife with a NIC, or was that an upgrade?

Great, now they have to worry about suicidal robots.

SSD's outperform disc in applications where they perform better. Story at 11.

While a good idea, I dont think the word guessing is for me. I always ignore it because it takes longer for me to click/point at the word it guesses than it does for me to finish typing the word.

I wish you luck on the next stage in your life. Your creation has wasted more of my time than anything else, and I am infinitely grateful.

No Cabletron (AKA Enterasys) option? Budget friendlyish, great hardware, good support.

In situations like hotels and hospitals, coverage is not that big of an issue. Client density becomes more of a concern with a 2 person room possibly having 6 devices (tablet, phone, laptop) 4 rooms can have 24 devices connected which leaves handy homeowner routers in the dust. An Aruba, Enterasys, or Meru have worked well for me in the past (with these companies doing a cloud based controller these days so you don't have to purchase the $10,000 device up front)

" The implication that you could own the right to all individual words within a trademark is also a bit scary." I believe Apple owns every individual word in the trademark of their name.

IT also forgot to tell them not to set their password as password, 1234, or their birthdate.

The most secure transactions you can make is cash out of your wallet. Only person who can take it then is a mugger (or a girlfriend) and at least then I know when it happens and how much is missing. All these alternative payment systems (including debit and credit cards) are ripe for the taking because of the numerous hands and systems that touch the payment information along the way.

It's called a dildo.

This is the perfect excuse to stop talking to your family.