Give the writer a break, he probably thinks anything bigger than an iPhone is a mainframe. Although, Unix/Linux eventually made it to the mainframe, especially on IBM z-Series.

Rogue was best enjoyed on a PDP or VAX minicomputer running BSD, and using a VT100 terminal; countless hours of Rogue were more than just entertainment, they trained my keyboard fingers to be very instinctive when writing code using vi.

Mod +3 on this comment! That's exactly what occurred in Los Angeles when the cost of fuel began to spike ever higher in the past 10 years, the MTA would cancel routes to save cost despite an increasing demand for seats by folks not willing to pay more each week at the pump.

Mass transit in the US is a make-work boondoggle in nearly all the nation, virtually all of the transit agencies are gov't or quasi-gov't with all the plodding inefficiency of rampant corruption and disinterest amongst the managers.

There is the group at www.xda-developers.com where you can get all the tools needed to jailbreak/root your Android phone. Also, www.androidcentral.com, www.androidforums.com, etc. which have very well organized forums for each Android device - whether phone or tablet.

And in Portland, they drain an entire reservoir after one guy takes a leak
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/16/Reservoir-drained-due-to-urine/UPI-10781308249177/

ummm... collecting rain is and has been illegal in a lot of places in the US because of senior water rights holders, these have been law since the 1800's when the western states were settled.

That has been my thought from the start. Speech rec is extraordinarily accurate now and IBM has a world class engine, so that would give a bit more of a real challenge to see Watson process the input of Alex's reading of the question. It's not clear why the team did not build that engine into Watson's front end, it certainly has more than enough power to run a speech rec engine. Of course, I'd love to have 50 servers running umpteen cores for my speech rec IVR system, but my firm won't give me the entire capital budget for this year...

Seems like the Square credit card swipe dongle is doing something similar. Does anyone know if the method is same as Hijack?

Look out, here comes Ungoliant!

There was measurable snowfall accumulation in Malibu in both Jan-2007 and Dec-2008, albeit for just a hour or so each time.

So true, the craft of touch typing is seldom taught now, nearly everyone I hire recently have been two finger peck typists. While they are rather quick to type, you can see that few of them can compose while typing, they continually watch their index fingers and marvel that I can sit and type notes while engaging them in a meeting. Don't presume that I'm slamming them, I honestly am sad they were not taught proper touch typing skills and had the benefit of it through their careers. Knowing where the keys reside on a QWERTY keyboard compensates a little for the lacking tactile feedback of touchscreens. Alas, my fingers are fat now and can't easily tap just a single key on any screen keyboard, even when I know where it is.

I have a similar experience with my friend's very elderly father. Her father is continually confused by the extra box (converter) which he can't remember to turn on or return to the proper channel. He is a channel flipper and enjoyed scanning the dial on his very nice Sony 32" TV. Since his memory is failing, he cannot re-learn how to use the TV remotes, so it's frustrating for him as he grabs the wrong remote.Now when he scans channels he loses connection to channel 3 so all he sees is static until she gets home to get him back onto the converter box. I'm betting he is not the only one, but rather a typical profile of the octo- and nono-genarian population.

Well then, technically yes. Otherwise you could not have touchdown runs exceeding 100 yards, such as the 109 yard play in 2007 NFL season. Typically, football field measurements presume only the offensive field of play and not the scoring areas of the end zones, each 10 yards long.

Recalling the BWB work done at McDonell Douglas and Boeing in the '90s, there was considerable resistance from passenger focus groups who could not get comfortable not seeing windows. The arrangement I remember seeing was similar to a theater seating with 3 or 4 rectangular sections in the thickest part of the chord of the wing, which could carry several hundreds of passengers in a ship not nearly as long as a 747. Cost per passenger mile is much better optimized in such an arrangement; perhaps with all the novelty items found in typical Emirates accommodations there will be less resistance to the windowless cabin.

Alas, it was RIAA which taught the current generation to think the music is free, due to their intransigence at the dawn of the Napster age.

I remember writing to the music companies back in those days encouraging them to unlock their enormous catalogues of the previous decades, to sell at a nominal price of 10 to 25 cents per download. Imagine how much money could have been made had the RIAA labels begun selling like this in early 2000? This revenue stream on extant music could have re-energized the labels for creating new music with new artists and genres. I'm sure iTunes would have come into being as Apple was already building the iPod, but certainly iTunes would not become the largest purveyor of music on the planet.

I did use Napster in those early days because I thought fair use allowed me a copy of music I already owned on vinyl or CD in MP3 form. But I abandoned downloading after the Napster takedown and continued searching for better ripping apps to convert my collection of CDs to MP3. Tried other P2P (Bearshare, torrent, etc) but am spooked by a dread of trojans and other nasties so I abandoned those too. Now, I sometimes buy from iTunes but mainly still buy CD and rip them myself to eliminate DRM. Every once in a while I buy from Amazon download, and have begun patronizing artists' sites directly because I would rather the artist get the lion's share of the payment rather than the RIAA firms who continue to rip-off the artists. I get paid for work I do and feel strongly that artists need to be paid for what they do.