My newest MBP is a 2007. It replaced a 2004. That replaced a 2002 iMac 1Ghz. If I need one faster than this, it'll probably be a VMWare image of OSX on a dirt-cheap Intel clone.

Oh, wait, already got one of them, and it XBenches 2.6X faster than the 2007MBP.

I think that thing could host a kick-ass DOOM session!

At least in the USA, then you get nailed for anywhere from 10-40% surcharges for "business-class service" which basically means you pay $400 a year for fixed IP and the "privilege" of running a server on your own broadband line."

My ISP tries to explain the ridiculous cost boost on "well, you get 'priority' on service calls. You have 10 email addresses and 10MB of free web space on our server!"

I shut them up one time:

I've been on "the internet" longer than you've existed as a company. Even at 2am, nobody has ever asked me if I was a business customer. And if I'm running my own server, whadduigivefuck about your "free email addresses and webspace?" I HAVE A SERVER.

#FAIL

WAIT.... "deleted?"

As in, "spilled the seed on the ground?"

I can understand if things maybe don't get delivered for a few hours, or maybe a few got munged up somewhere during the repairs, but to blissfully direct the firehose into the abyss that is /dev/null...

Who pays for that?

Oh, wait. Canadians are rather accepting of abuse on the part of their phone/cable/broadband suppliers, and the Tories back up the big businesses.

"Unacceptable! Unacceptable! Mepps, mepps!"

Facebook actually thinks these are one billion distinct humanoids? Zuck is stoopider than his investors look. As anyone who ever posted a signup sheet in a college dorm for IM softball can attest, at least a third of people who sign up for anything, anywhere, ever, are fake.

Sorry, this was my post, forgot to login. I hate when that happens.

The chest freezer with frozen 2L bottles works very well. (a) they have tremendous thermal mass and (b) even when they thaw, you can drink the water. Used this trick for many years. They also don't rupture even if you fill them a touch too high, unlike gallon milk jugs.

I own an 1840 stone house and barn built into the side of the Blue Ridge. Today, it was 99 degrees outside.

In the barn, it was 73.

Last winter, it was 0 outside. In the barn, 41.

They had this stuff figured out before the Millard Fillmore administration: don't build your house in the middle of a cornfield that still wants to be a cornfield.

Oh, and please quit making new humans. We've already got more than enough.

I know there's some reason people continue to use Facebook. I just have a hard time imagining what it is.

You'd be astonished how many attorneys are (or present as) bi-polar. This lady sounds like one.

I'll go sorta OT here, but I am fed up with articles, here or elsewhere, that can be summed up as "here, watch this video."

Thanks for making me ingest content at the speed of the slowest talker in the video, not at my reading speed.

If you post a video in lieu of text, you just wasted the world's time.

Nø, really!

This could be spectacular! Tossing water droplets around in zero-G pales in comparison to getting that thing twirling like a baton at a Texas halftime show...

While I appreciate ESR's statements, pinheaded politicians and bureaucrats tend to take things the wrong way regardless how small the words are you use to spell it out. I can picture some knucklehead seeing the Gilmore quote and saying, "well, these internet geeks are getting militant! They're threatening us!" And then they do stoopid things like propose federal licensing of all network engineers backed by heavy fines and Federal prison terms, to where resetting your own WAP would get you a year in jail and a $50,000 fine.

Indeed. I've been off-grid at various times, and my ace in the hole is a 2x2 solar panel with alligator clips charging a 12v automotive jumpstart box that had a built-in inverter. Charge it all day, power the laptop and charge the phone all night.