I'd say "if you rely on a third-party web service with no alternatives or exit plans, then you're screwed whether you pay for it or not." Relying on a third-party email provider is pretty easy, just point your MX record at the new server, bam, you're migrated. Ok, so there's replication and actual migration, but the point is email is standard and you can pick and choose at will if one service goes away. You were making backups right? When LogMeIn, Google whatever, Facebook, etc, go belly up, get bought out, or just decide to shut off the service you like because it's not profitable, you're sunk because they are not standard.

Pretty much. There's a couple of links in TFA, but this video I found was pretty illustrative: Versaball

Just about everywhere I've ever worked, I've worked with someone that types fast (for a programmer) with only 2 fingers. There are also the dvorak-wielding snobs. Just because we all sit in front of a keyboard doesn't mean we all use them exactly the same.

That assumes a time-traveler didn't know their flight was doomed until after they booked the ticket.

Who said I was human?

Back when the 486dx4 was out, I'd tune my FM radio to ~100mHz and listen to the weird whirs and buzzes that occurred during disk access or mouse movement. Many years later, during a security class of all things, when I suggested using this as a method to leak information out of a secure room, the speaker said using radio transmission to leak information was much too sophisticated to be a viable attack for anything but the government and military.

This is the feature I've been waiting for since I like to write games and port them to HTML5. I have an audio-only game that only worked in Chrome until today because I had the audacity to require left/right panning.

"The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses." - Patton trolling.

Based on the gameplay video here, I'm wondering why they didn't just go Kinect + nerf sword.

The interesting bit isn't that Google was down. The interesting bit is that when Google went down it took 40% of all internet traffic with it. It illustrates how big a foothold the company has on the internet as a whole.

Have you ever actually frozen a soda bottle? They survive just fine through many freeze-thaw cycles even while being exposed to UV. My mom used a wall of water-filled soda bottles as a way of regulating the temperature near some of her plants. They sat outside for years of winters before we got rid of them all. We also used some as ice-blocks for the cooler when picnicking - just made sure there was an air-gap for the water to expand into when freezing. I once tried filling a PET shampoo bottle with water (same plastic as soda bottles) and then freezing it to expand the plastic. I'd then top it off again so the next time it would freeze-expand bigger. The bottle got to about 150% normal size before I just gave up.

I tried it on a private server. My biggest problem with TT is they don't officially support much of anything. Over half my feeds were broken when I tried it. When I went to the forums, I kept finding the developer telling people it's not TT it's the RSS feed itself and that he's not going to accommodate broken RSS feeds. Yeah, he's technically correct, many RSS feeds fail miserably at conforming to the standard, but every other RSS reader out there manages to at least work. When your RSS reader doesn't officially support half of the feeds I read, it ceases to be useful (to me at least). I'm using inoreader now. Yeah, I'm not in direct control of my data, but at least all my feeds work.

I signed up at the same time. While I didn't quite like the interface, it was the best I could find at the time. However I did keep looking and actually settled on inoreader just before Google Reader shut off. It's gone from good to exactly what I was looking for. My biggest concern on inoreader is there's no monitization either, so....

Their goal was to cash in on the Star Trek brand name, nothing more, nothing less. And, honestly, it showed in the first movie with the "that's not a knife, THIS is a knife, err, collapsible battle axe" and giving Scotty an Ewok. I haven't yet watched the second, though I know I will eventually, it does have the Star Trek name after all.

Very few conventional SUVs can be taken off road, unless by offroad you mean the maintained gravel road out to your favorite trail head. SUV hasn't mean off road for many years now, SUV generally means minivan-without-the-stigma.