So, it seems that live sex shows advertised locally would be just fine.

If you live nowhere close to a coast, most of your table salt is almost pure NaCl ... trace amounts of iodine are added to it, as it is next to impossible to get that iodine from "natural sources" (almost exclusively fresh seafood - which residents of, say, Kansas don't have).

I don't think that is what the GP is talking about, though, I think (s)he's just spouting nonsense. It would take fairly a fairly sophisticated set of tests to find anything other than NaCl in a typical store bought container of Morton Salt (even Morton Salt Iodized).

People offer what they think you might take ... always feel free to counter-offer.

The bandwidth of my effing Time Warner Cable "broadband Internet" connection ... When my neighbors are home, KB is the only way to effectively measure it without using negative exponents.

Two points:

1) Cost? Not an object, tablets are virtually free. Less than half a day's wages if you are in an office job, a full days wages for Joe-middle-class. Granted, I work in IT, but for me a MacBook (either) would be barely above the price point of "impulse buy", any tablet is priced below that point.

2) "With an Android device ... and keep most of your data "in the cloud" ..." - why did you specify with an Android device? My documents are in the cloud and accessible on whatever device I happen to use (iMac at home, iPhone wherever, MBA or iPad in meetings). Work documents I keep on my employer's "cloud", personal documents of one type on my Apple account iCloud, personal documents that I share with my ex are on my Google account. Multiple accounts are easy.

A tablet is a smartphone in an easier to view and manipulate form factor, a smartphone is a tablet in an easier to carry form factor. OS is next to meaningless, except in my experience, Apple does a better job of making the same documents also perfectly functional on a laptop/desktop computer ... So the integration between home, workplace, and on the road is seamless. I'm guessing others will be getting there soon, probably the next group to get there will be Microsoft with the abomination that is Windows 8, provided they can get the awkwardly unwieldy UI and hardware trimmed down to usable.

Every year the licensing for enterprises gets more complicated. If you have a few hundred users on Windows computers, all of whom need licenses for OS, Office Suite, access to corporate SQL servers, and varying levels of access to Dynamics CRM, some users need access to Dynamics GP, ...

Talking with one MS rep you get one answer for the licensing you need.
Talking with a different one and you get a completely different answer. ... for the same people with the same usage profile, for the same period of time.

If Microsoft's VAR's can't figure it out deterministically, and Microsoft's own employed reps can't figure it out, it is too effin' complicated.

There was a fellow who had as his hobbies being a private pilot and amateur photographer. Part of how he funded these hobbies was taking a nice camera with him on flights, photographing farms from the air, then selling the framed prints to the farm's residents. It was a bit of an odd business model, as when he was taking the photos he had not previously contacted the residents and had no idea if they would be willing to pay for the photos ...

The way some of these bits of legislation are worded, that business model would be illegal. So that is a bit of an unintended consequence.

Time Warner Cable can't sell upgraded speed in most neighborhoods because they seldom can actually provide it.

I have TWC (available at a discount due to where I live currently), rated for 20Mb/s service. At 4am, it is about as good as advertised: 14Mb/s. At 8pm, it is 3xxKb/s (notice that is Kb/s) ... old DSL level download speeds. Many of the other X number of neighbors on the same chunk of cable are obviously in contention for the same chunk of over-allocated bandwidth.

Why pay for upgraded service when their infrastructure can only support it in the wee hours of the morning?

The mega-yacht owners already have a group to protect them. It's a private union, though, your level of protection is determined by the amount of dues you pay under the table. That union is colloquially known as "congress".

This is too hilarious (in a pathetic but believable way) to only have a 0 score.

"former Yahoo!" is a pretty good description of the company overall.

I'm amazed it hasn't ceased to exist yet, it stopped being even remotely relevant to anything over a decade ago.

I understand this is legal in most of the US (FLSA exempt status is supposed to only apply to jobs where productivity is not tied directly to time working - but case law indicates that computer programming specifically is an "exempt" position as far as the federal government is concerned). Nearly all "at will" states permit your employer to fire you for not working whatever hours your boss demands, there are no standards for "unreasonable demands".

From what I gather, this practice is not legal in most of Europe.

As nice as moving to Europe sounds to me, family ties make that move a difficult one.

Yes, iPhones, at least on any semi-recent version of iOS are encrypted. All the remote-wipe feature (usable from, say, the Find my iPhone app) does is erase the encryption key on the phone. The contents are effectively still there, but it is computationally ridiculous* to retrieve them.

*I should trademark the term "computationally ridiculous". I like the way it encompasses "theoretically possible ... but it would take so long that by the time you achieved the goal, all of your equipment used to get there would have long ago disintegrated".

Except the guys (and gals) from India "can't hack it just fine." I'm sure there are some decent programmers coming in on H1B visas, but I haven't met any of them. Yes, you can hire three cut-and-paste coders from India for the price of, well, me. It has been my experience (repeatedly) that if those coders can't Google a set of code online for the specific problem, copy it, and make trivial modifications to get it to apply, they don't know what to do. They can't write code. I've rescued so many projects over the last decade it isn't even funny ... although it has been great for me, as I've picked up a reputation as a project rescue specialist ... but only because I actually know how to apply normal programming techniques to a problem.

This should get a billion funny mods.
I actually re-read that percentage 'cause I couldn't believe anybody would think MS had 5 9's on anything, then on the second read finally noticed where the decimal place was!
Thanks for the late night chuckle.