Presumably he paid for a home space which would accommodate the office. What he should or shouldn't do is pretty much his business and his alone.

They'll claim that the same website indicated that Comcast did offer the service. So they stated the service was offered -- not that it was previously installed. Good luck holding a realtor liable for a 3rd party not going through with their offer. If the garbage pickup company stops service to your town, do you think you can sue the realtor for that, too?

I've never thought of Facebook messenger as anything more than a random web chat, a bolt-on feature of the whole antisocial media site. However, email isn't really a fair comparison, as it doesn't allow actual realtime chat. That's what IRC is for, and you get to keep your logs as you please on your own machine. I guess the same applies to any of the newer IM protocols, as long as it's an independent application you control.

BTW, what would you guys suggest to wean non-technical friends off FB chat, given that IRC might be a little too much hassle with all the servers and keeping their computer on all the time?

A collective entity is sometimes treated like a plural in sentences, as explained in The Economist style guide. I agree that Reuters should be singular, for several reasons, but it's understandable that people sometimes overshoot with the pluralization.

I guess "Reuters" looks explicitly plural, but it was founded by a chap called Reuter, and once called Reuter's Telegram Company, so the current name is probably just a typographical contraction. IMHO, it's obvious that a business entity should be singular, even if it represents a collective effort, that's pretty much the idea behind corporations.

Scientists discover this thing called neuroplasticity.

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(Seriously, what kind of a /.er uses unbalanced parentheses for lists? Please hand in your geek card at once.)

Strange, 14 of the 50 US States have been investing 5-20 percent in renewable energy, and their GDP is growing faster than the ones that don't.

Keep pining for your failed fossil fuel religion, the markets care nothing for your ideology.

And cheap clean energy is a market advantage that only some anti-capitalist Mercantalist would hate.

The markets care nothing for your failed fossil fuel religion.

They appear often in the cartoon series on Disney XD. You can even hear the hum and see the shields go up. Kind of a Dune effect.

good catch. more like deflector shields.

But give them time and they'll get the plasma containment shielding working to get the light sabers up and running.

Well, I think the internal code name is Bertha, so give it a few years of failure before they kill it.

See, you tried 8.1 and then to get it working under 10.

You should have coded for 8.1, recompiled under Win 9, and then pushed the Win 10 build.

I tried to roll a Win10 app but I couldn't get it to compile in Linux.

Also, what is this Clippy thing that keeps popping up and asking me if I want bigger chrome fins on my OS?

Nice try, idjots.