They know my secret identity.

Apple //e with 128KB -> Lenovo S20 with 6GB. 6GB / 128KB = 49152 by my quick calculations.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. BUT, broke is highly subjective.

Welcome, brother.

I want a business card that lists my title as "Open Source Janitor".

The zeroth doctor? How very Asimovian! Unfortunately, that is very likely the reason they won't go that way. It will be something no one would have guessed, or they would have kept a tighter lid on it.

Actually, the poll mixes and matches incorrectly. The poll caption is "Most precise measuring tool I've used ..." but then all of the options describe accuracy, which is of course different. Precision describes the difference between the measurement of the quantity being observed and the next closest possible measurement. Accuracy describes the difference between the measurement and the actual value of the quantity being observed. A deli scale might be precise to a tenth of an ounce (or a milligram, if that's where you live), but when the clerk has his thumb on it the accuracy is no where near that.

Compared to most level 1 tech support I have dealt with, I would rather talk to a bot.

You can get that on Reddit too.

Get off my lawn.

Lacrosse sticks are seriously deadly weapons, but that is mostly becasue they are carried by lacrosse players. Those guys are crazy.

There has got to be some SCAdian lurkers on Slashdot somewhere ... doesn't there?

+1 for anything Beagle Brothers! Byte Zap earned me some ooohs and aaahs well into my college years.

Freecell was a sample application bundled with the ill-fated Win32s subsystem for Windows 3.11. Win32s was intended to be a "subset" of the Win32 API available on the fledgling Windows NT that would allow developer to build a single EXE that could run on both systems. Freecell was included to demonstrate this ability.

The previous paragraph was entirely from memory, but Wikipedia agrees.

If they knew what you meant, this conversation would have never happened.