My bad.. I'm usually better than that, but was distracted by the shiny video! (which I didn't listen to, since I try to stay muted at work).. Missed most of the summary. Thanks!

Your joke was already used by HowStuffWorks

How much does a Solo Wheel cost? I tried to check on their site, but it was slashdotted.

This is an outstanding post, with a great quote! I wish I hadn't squandered my mod points yesterday! Thanks for the link, much appreciated.

Windows 3.11 is still available for technet subscribers. Simple!

Should we also ban free speech, to keep it from inciting riots? Should be proactively ban the consumption of alcohol (again) because of so many alcohol related deaths? How about we ban the internet, since so much piracy and child pornography and other heinous crimes are committed there!

If you don't want to live in a free society, then maybe you should move somewhere that you won't have to worry about it.

This was the first thing that came to my mind as well. When the authoritarian government is requiring high speed internet access to every home, it can't just be for the public to have faster access to the censored internet. There has to be a bigger reason, and I'm sure it's more to do with upload speeds than download..

That's a pretty cool website! I didn't know that my employer (formerly Union Switch & Signal) developed a car phone in 1964! I did know that we made guns during WWII... But we don't do any "extracurricular" activities anymore, as far as I'm aware.

And now with linkage!

There are alpha (and maybe beta) versions of XBMC for Android as well. I'm not sure if they run on this MK802 II or not, but I'm sure that's coming.

If the Facebook team is using pair programming for their mobile apps (on all platforms!), maybe they should try something more traditional because it's not working! They have so many bugs and glitches in the IOS, Android (tablet), and Blackberry apps that they definitely need to try a new approach! Maybe if they TESTED them before releasing, they'd have better results?

I'm a DirecTV subscriber, and I honestly never even noticed that I lost some channels. Must not have been anything important. I'm happy for them to lost those ones, and reduce my bill, but I'm sure that would never happen.

On the other hand, if someone malicious were to get physical access to the network, it may be a different situation.

I work for a company that does networking for many railroads, and on every project that we've done the entire train control network is isolated from the rest of the world. That's one of our basic rules, it should never touch the internet. I can't speak for our competitors, but it seems like they would do the same.

While you're right not to trust this, the website says his DNS server does NOT allow you to connect out to any other sites. It only allows in-app purchases, and you must restore the configuration to use your old DNS server before you can do anything else. I'm not sure what dangers there are from the certificates that he has you install however.