This is a really stupid idea.

If the user wants to hide the version number, someone will write an extension to do that. Quit dumbing down Firefox.

If you're avoiding products from manufacturers who try to enforce their patents, you're going to be living in a cave real soon now.

For most of the US there are only 4 cell phone options, period. All 4 are blatantly evil companies that are out to screw every last penny out of you while denying you service whenever possible. In most rural locations there are really only 2 options: AT&T and Verizon. These are the two most evil of the bunch. If you don't like what either one is selling, you do without cell phone service.

Occasionally you get lucky and a small company like, say, Iowa Wireless may provide slightly less rapacious rates, but typically they only cover a small region and offer out-of-date phones.

Why yes, the cell phone service situation in the USA IS absolutely insane.

Actually there is no federal or state law on the book that restricts the use of DPI by service providers. Using DPI to route traffic DOES place at risk their "Safe harbor" status under the DMCA. Unfortunately, since ISPs are now agreeing to be the private police force for copyright holders that no longer matters.

The fact that we can't manage this planet (yet) is an argument for moving beyond it. A permanent off-planet presence is the best thing we can do to avoid extinction.

The "space option" as you put it doesn't imply our planet is disposable. It implies that if we're interested in not being disposable ourselves, we need to get some of our eggs out of this particular basket. Migration off-planet is not and will never be a solution to over-population.

I appreciate the sentiment, believe me. It's really wrenching to think of all that effort, money, and material burning up in reentry, but it's not as simple as "let's send it to the moon". It might -just- be feasible, though, to move it to a higher, more stable orbit and "park" it there until we can do something else with it. We wouldn't be able to shuttle crews to it any more, but I bet we could pack it full of science goodies and remote waldos so it could continue to serve us in some capacity.

Hell, install a small nuclear reactor in it, attach a few more arms and an ion drive and maybe we could use it as a remote repair bay for other satellites.

Sure, we'll put it in orbit around the moon. You work out how to get about 6,000 tons of propellent up there and I'll take care of the rest.

Then you get sent an unsolicited invite. Check your inbox.

Actually if the GP learned to read on the original Dragon Warrior, then he probably learned the difference between a PARTSN, RANSR, GUISA, GLAIVE, LHAMMR, and MFORK.

If only there were some way to populate those fields with bogus data, or not have a Google account at all! Pity Google reaches directly into your brain and autofills them without your consent.

All right. I'm a moron. Why is it bad to use an auto-incrementing row as the PK as long as it's never exposed to the end user?

(Please note I am not a DB guy, I just use MySQL as a backend for some simple PHP projects)

The Dutch guy? I got in the same way, and have gotten in several people using the method you describe.

Sweet galloping Jesus! What were they thinking? Visio is MUCH better suited to that kind of flowchart!

The problem isn't Powerpoint. Powerpoint is a fine piece of presentation software. The problem is that people don't know how to present information effectively, and it's the TEMPLATES included with Powerpoint (and every other chunk of presentation software I've ever seen) that encourage this. If MS wants to alleviate Powerpoint hate, they need to revise their included templates to demonstrate what a good, informative presentation can be.

I've found that you can invite anyone in simply by manually adding their email address to a Google+ post you make. Everyone that I have "Added" in such a way has received an email that allowed them to create an account.