Nothing until they are out for a joyride in their brand new sports car and they loose control due to carelessness and wreck my car / destroy my property / hit me while I am walking down the road.

Not letting them on the road seems a little extreme but do they have to have a brand new car? What happened to having a beater to putt around in for the first few years?

Companies and politicians are more interested in looking good and in getting the snazzy release announcement / photo op then releasing accurate, neutral data to the public. An announcement will be heavily promoted / advertised and people will remember those ads more then they will remember the tiny retraction issues three weeks later.

Several years ago they were bought by Bell and re-branded as The Source. They still operate in Canada.

I wonder why they were able to survive in Canada and not in the US?

He is making the assumption that IBM is concerned with a sales drop. For the last decade and a half the only thing their awful management has cared about is executive compensation. Even after this year's awful earnings the genius Ginni said 'the results prove our strategy is working', and lo and behold they voted themselves bonuses today.

Actually last year bonuses were forgone amid lower profits: BBC.

Fresh never frozen. It makes a huge difference in the taste. Never frozen is always better then from frozen.

From the Wikipedia article on National_security_letter: A national security letter (NSL) is an administrative subpoena issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in authorized national security investigations "to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities" (i.e., spying).

If they are just sleeping (or in whatever state they are in) will not their muscles deteriorate? After having no nourishment for several weeks most people will waste away to nothing.

WIkipedia has an article where they trace it out: Man in the Moon

Not the clearest picture ever but you can see what they are talking about.

This article is a pile of bull-knit

Anyone who has yarn, needles, and experience knitting.

How many /.ers are knitters? Seems like this is aimed at the wrong audience...

There should at least be the obligatory disclaimer "Slashdot is owned by Dice" so that readers can prepare themselves. Presenting it as a neutral article seems deceptive.