That's all I need, files magically disappearing from my local media.

Thanks but no thanks.

If Microsoft buys GitHub, I am moving all my code to GitLab or Bitbucket.

I went camping in South Carolina with my cronies, in a State Park campground *directly under the line of totality*.

The place was packed, and people were complaining that the WiFi was slow. Talk about your first world problem. We reserved our spots months in advance.

We went there on Saturday and left on Tuesday to avoid the traffic. The weather cooperated, the view was spectacular.

We had a collection of telescopes and big telephoto lenses, some great food and illegal potables.

Good times.

Yeah, I read the linked paper and a lot of the breathless press about it, too. Thanks for asking. The press really got it wrong, and maybe that's what twisted me up. These guys got it right: http://blogs.discovermagazine.... -- very few of the others did.

The reason that there is so much guaiacol in whisky from Scotland has a whole lot to do with the way that they smoke the barley. Especially the Islay whiskys. They smoke the malted barley, then ferment it, then distill it, and even after being distilled twice, the whisky still smells smoky to the nose, and more so with a splash of water.

Makers Mark is made from corn, and the only thing smoked is the inside of the barrel, which is charred. The article authors are not talking about high-proof bourbon. IMHO, you are just diluting that, which may not be a bad thing.

The authors of the article don't understand that "whisky" (from Scotland) is not the same as "whiskey" (from anywhere else.)

The discussion that the water opens the whisky up and makes the guaiacol more aromatic does not apply to whiskey that does not have a lot of this chemical in it, that is to say NOT SCOTCH.

Adding water to Irish Whiskey, or good ole American Bourbon Whiskey, is not going to have the same effect. Adding a couple teaspoons of cool water to your delicious smoky single malt from Islay will make a noticeable difference and open op the "nose" of the whisky.

True "whisky snobs" know the difference.

Lots of options here: https://www.amazon.jobs/

There is a lot of expensive real-estate tied up in these "8-blocks"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

HP, by virtue of their acquisition of the assets of DEC, has 2 8-blocks, which is probably worth a small fortune in real money. 33 million IP4 addresses.

Most (all?) of these were reserved in the great IP address land grab back in the early 90s.

1. The ridiculous ticket prices, when compared to subsequent rental or blu-ray purchase.
2. The ridiculous snack bar prices. $6.50 for 30 cents worth of popcorn? $5 for a paper cup of fizzy corn-sweetener water?
3. The talking idiots behind you. you cannot shut them up. the theater does not care.
4. The texting idiots in front of you. phone screen as bright at a truck headlight in a dark theater. inconsiderate wankers don't care.
5. the uncomfortable sardine seating (in most theaters, some have better seating but for most, there is very little personal space)
6. the box-office lines. 50 people in line and one math-challenged high-schooler making change.
7. parking at the theater. hundreds of yards from the door at many big movie-plexes.
8. driving to the theater. so much more time-efficient to never leave the house.
9. the fact that at most theaters YOU CAN'T GET A BEER. (...most... not all... and when you can it is disruptive to those around you.)
10. the fact that you cannot pause the film to answer a nature call.

I've got a 75" TV with watts and watts of 7.1 audio. A nice comfortable recliner. Privacy to do what ever I want when the film plays. Beer, liquor, munchies, a clean bathroom just steps away. I don't know why anybody goes to the movie theater at all any more, I'd rather sit on a hill of fire ants. Movies at home are awesome.

These will be used 99.9% for porn.

I'm not egregiously overweight. I'm just a large man. 6'5", 250 lbs.

Coach class on some airlines (hello Delta) is like torture. My knees press against the back of the seat in front of me, god forbid they recline it. My shoulders are so wide (and I'm not giant that way) that if I sit besides another person who is not "challenged of stature", there is not room for my shoulders or arms. I will almost always pay for "premium economy" to get the leg room, but there is still the matter of fitting my shoulders in. My butt fits in the seat just fine, it's just that my butt is not the widest part of me.

I'm all for smaller seats for smaller people. The airlines can fit them 10 abreast for all I care. But I feel bad for the person sitting next to me, because I am wider than the seat is, and it is not because I am overweight.

On the last flight I booked, premium economy was 24% more than coach, so it's not as cheap as you claim. I cannot afford first class for personal trips. First is usually 2.5 times the price of coach. I'm just an engineer.

Also, the width of shoulders of the *average* American man is 18.5" -- quite a bit more than the 16" seat width that is typical in most airliners. Do you want to jockey with me for that 2.5 inches? I didn't think so. If you have not noticed the silent battle for the arm rest, I'm guessing you don't fly very much. Seat cramping is a problem on most airliners.

turn on airplane mode.

Some PCs have a physical switch that turns off all the wireless. If you have one of those, switch it off. Files can be transferred over bluetooth, as well.

Trump, whether you hate him or just strongly dislike him, will probably be tweeting about this tomorrow and LMCO will be up sh!t creek.

Huffman must go.

If reddit users don't trust the community, there will be no community. Huffman did the unthinkable by covertly editing users posts; the only way reddit can recover users' trust is that Huffman must go.

Slashdot is going to join boingboing on the list of "websites I used to look at."

Everybody on these missions will die.

There is no known way to protect spacefarers from galactic cosmic radiation.

The Apollo astronauts were in deep space for a little less than two weeks and look what happened: http://www.nature.com/articles...