d'oh...that should have read:

And here comes the endless 500 post thread on how shouldn't allow to install without . This then ends up becoming a debate on operating system security and rights management and 100 other completely unrelated topics. Oh, and vi is better.

Clark (of Louis and Clark fame) would probably disagree with you there...

It really just matters how it is popularized -- I've never heard Louis or Clark discussed separately, just as I've never heard anything about Watson without mentioning Crick (although Franklin is the loser in that one), so they will probably stay in the consciousness indefinitely, or at least as long as we're talking about them.

The fact that Wales is often discussed without mentioning Sanger at this point will likely lead to him being completely forgotten in a general sense associated with Wikipedia.

Clearly the solution is to convert all text into Captchas so we never forget the words!

That's funny, because I called Cablevision the other day to resolve an issue where my cable modem wasn't getting an IP address assigned to it, and I was routed to a completely automated system. The beginning line was "You may ask to speak to an agent at any time, but they will be following the same script that I will be following." I gave it about 3 minutes through the script before I moved to the agent because I figured I could get escalated to a tech faster with a real person than a scripted machine.

You are mistaken. You cannot buzz in until Trebek has finished reading the question. One of the reasons that Ken Jennings was so successful is because he had the timing down perfectly such that he was reliably the first one to buzz in when he knew the answer.

As someone who has heard their ad on the radio at least 100 times, that's KarsForKids with a K. It's also one of the most annoying radio ads I've ever heard, although the fact that I'm posting this indicates it's also a successful ad.

And ponies. Pink ponies.

Go to a public swimming pool, look at the people there, and let us know if you still stand by that statement.

Am I the only one that doesn't see why this is such a huge deal? Facebook offers a convenient way to import a person's contact list into their site. They do not offer any convenient way to extract contact information out of their site. They have never offered a convenient way to export data from their site in their near 7 years of existence, and I've never heard big complaints about it. Solution: don't treat Facebook as your single source of a contact list. That's what other programs are for.

I understand there are privacy issues and whatnot, but that's not what this article is about. This article is complaining that a service allows you to import data but not export it. It's not like if I use Facebook's utility to import my gmail contact list that it is suddenly gone from gmail and never accessible again -- it's still sitting there for export into some other service.

What about:
(3) Launch by terrorist/hostile regime, aimed at LA, but it failed and missed the target.

While it certainly doesn't sound plausible, at this point I don't think it's much less plausible than the other options I've seen tossed around, and it certainly has the gravest implications.

You are assuming that they are not selling the Kinect at a loss, subsidized by selling games that work with the hardware. I have no idea whether they are or not, but given Microsoft's history, I wouldn't make that assumption.

Was the double negative intentional?

Not only that, but as long as you're still playing multiplayer, you usually still need your copy of your game and cannot resell it without losing your ability to play multiplayer. When I finish a game like Assassin's Creed or Mass Effect, there is very little preventing me from reselling the game, which "cuts" into the profits of the company who created/published the game.

Lemma 4:

People still playing multiplayer need an actual copy of the game and cannot resell it to Gamestop or a friend. People who are done with a single player game can resell the game which means no new profits for the company who made/published the game.