The idea of shows filming their season cliff hangers before a renewal makes it hard for shows to function. Although with Lost building up hype, or the BSG "They have a plan" was just outright lies. TV isn't alone on dragging things out. Any Wheel of Time fan had to feel cheated when it started taking over a page to describe a dress or over 2 decades to finish a trilogy.

On TV Fringe has somewhat closed the hanging threads.I'm glad they managed to get a 1/2 season to work on this. Eureka did the same thing with a half season closer. I recall Angel was notified they weren't being picked up so Whedon decided to go for broke on the ending. But it's far too rare.

The science channel showed firefly, that's as close to a sci fi channel that's out there. I have no idea what that 'syfy' channel is.

The NSA is already grabbing everything and storing it. The NSA can store all they want, it's only an intercept when a human sees it. So if they realize Mr. Smith may be worth investigating they can then pull every email/phone/whatever else they're storing up from the past and it's totally legal.

Why hasn't anyone written a good firefox plugin to make gmail GPG workable?

Out of business from lack of sales if I recall. I think the last I bought from them was quake 3 in the tin box.

Back when Meraki came out they were a great product. Cheap products that did mesh that just worked. I used them for years giving free wifi to a small area that transferred over 1TB to thousands of clients. Then Google bought them - or invested into them, not sure the exacts - and I didn't notice much of a difference at first. I wanted to expand my area and found the cheap products were end of lifed and no more. They had more expensive multiband gear and then enterprise. I could upgrade but it wasn't worth the expense to add two units when I could redo my whole area by going with openmesh. I've been happy with openmesh, another simple mesh wifi that just works. In fact I'm using it right now, my house is 2 hops from the commercial connection at the office, about 1km away.

I never used the enterprise level gear. If it was as easy to use as the cheap gear I can see why it'd have value. I am surprised that it's a billion dollar value. I wonder how much profit Google made through this?

It's daylight saving time, no ending S. I'm far from a grammar complainer but this one just irks me.

Life is out there, they just ran off and hid in black holes waiting for us to dig them out.

I had been reading comics around the reboot and just gave up on DC. Marvel does a variety of reboots to a point and restarts numbers at #1 on a near regular basis but that's a series not a whole continuity change. But the crossover mania, even not having to err.. pay much.. for comics got so it wasn't worth the time. Last year's Fear itself storyline was over 100 comics. That'd be a lot of money shelled out to follow one storyline.

It was all about the vast amounts of profits to be made. Cheney's past company Halliburton with no bid contracts is a good example.

Pffft, I still use MUDs to communicate with friends

I agree. Unless the kid is already wealthy sell, be a success, then do something fun or start another. Easier to be a success if you don't have to worry about bills.

How many of us went through the dotcom era and wish we had sold out the first chance we got instead of hanging on? In hindsight I would have been far happier, and better off, if I had cashed in when I could have.

Surprised Bezos hasn't done something like this to go along with his 10,000 year clock.

It's all you people enjoying the free shows that got him in trouble in the first place!

Just watch your back, that IRS can be crafty. Years ago a local barber was audited. They decided he was paying too little in taxes based on the towel service he used, one haircut per towel was more income than he declared. He settled that and started doing his own laundry.

Now if only more places would take bitcoins you'd have more pseudo-anonymity and be cashless. While there is a credit card tied to bitcoins they still follow the normal rules of credit cards so that isn't as private.