Comment Define "permanent" (Score 5, Informative) 121
It'll be permanent until the ISS is de-orbited in 2016, eh?
Comment They didn't go far enough. (Score 1) 287
Given the average IQ level of YouTube commenters, they should have blocked responses altogether and provided a URL to a forum on whitehouse.gov. That would at least eliminate the morons who can't read carefully.
Comment Re:My call... (Score 1) 358
"May I ask who I'm speaking to?"
*click*
Damn! They abandoned the scam just because you ended the sentence with a preposition?
No, it was because he used "who" instead of "whom."
Comment Re:Netizens are the new Jack Bauer (Score 1) 339
And why cats?
Quite. The Chinese eat cats.
Comment Re:Safari does clean up after itself. (Score 1) 200
But is the average Safari user's cache weighing in at several gigabytes? I don't think so. That was just put there to cause alarm for attention-getting reasons.
Mine was 1.38GB and I'm a fairly average user. And that was with Top Sites disabled.
Comment Re:real mug, but.. (Score 1) 571
An interesting approach to hotel stealing is going with the game and putting a price list somewhere visible. I've seen this in NYC.
A place we stay in AZ has nice bathrobes in the room, with a note mentioning that a $100 charge will be gladly added to your bill if a robe walks off.
Comment Re:real mug, but.. (Score 3, Funny) 571
Reminds me of the guy who complained about hotel towels.
Comment Re:Already removed my links. (Score 4, Informative) 470
Yeah, I gave up on Amazon when it started throwing its weight around in the print-on-demand arena. It's become as big a market-distorting force as Wal-mart, and I don't feel like supporting them anymore.
Comment Re:If its not april Fools (Score 1) 250
Is anybody else a little wary of yeast cells that can live inside the human body and process blood?
10 OSes We Left Behind 562
CWmike writes "As the tech community gears up to celebrate Unix's 40th birthday this summer, one thing is clear: People do love operating systems. They rely on them, get exasperated by them and live with their little foibles. So now that we're more than 30 years into the era of the personal computer, Computerworld writers and editors, like all technology aficionados, find ourselves with lots of memories and reactions to the OSes of yesteryear (pics galore). We have said goodbye to some of them with regret. (So long, AmigaOS!) Some of them we tossed carelessly aside. (Adios, Windows Me!) Some, we threw out with great force. (Don't let the door hit you on the way out, MS-DOS 4.0!) Today we honor a handful of the most memorable operating systems and interfaces that have graced our desktops over the years. Plus: We take a look back at 40 years since Unix was introduced."
Comment Re:Tactics? (Score 1) 227
Fixated on "seizes" I guess.
Comment Re:Tactics? (Score 4, Informative) 227
It seizes to amaze me as to why they would make this public, 8 days before conficker is "supposed" to become active.
Assuming English isn't your first language: "It never ceases to amaze me" is what you meant, i.e. "I'm always surprised."
Comment Re:Meh I figure were doomed. (Score 1) 409
You left out technological collapse and massive die-off caused by a plasma ejection from the sun.
Comment Google (Score 1) 776
Has constants and conversions. I don't need an industrial-strength calculator and my browser's always open. Quite handy.
