Nuclear power, when done properly, is safe.
Of course, there's always the human element, and that's the source of the problem in every nuclear event I can think of.
"This sort of thing has cropped up before... And it has always been due to human error."

...which is what he's saying. Unless tolls fund the majority of roads (I'm ignoring state vs. city roads here), then it's just like rail. The government funds the infrastructure to keep things moving.

Or, seeing the XP-styled attempts on Windows 7... that's nice too.

Yeah, that one's timeless. There's also a variant in which you set the desktop to a broken-LCD image (i.e. corruption, garbage) and hide the icons and taskbar.
Of course, the fact that the cursor still works would be a giveaway. (Unless you change that too--but that's a bit too much.)

With what? Fake credit card numbers? They'll immediately be rejected by the system.

No, no. You're doing it backwards.
You take their $50, and if the world does end, you give them $100.

That's because fluids are the same, no matter where in the universe you go.

(Now if you were to go to another universe, I can't guarantee the local laws of physics will apply there as well. Which does not bode well for hyperdimensional porn studios.)

And for those of you who would like to actually see the Phoronix article mentioned in the summary, it's here

(Yes, there are obnoxious ads, but only if you turn off your ad blocker and Flash blocker and mouse over the double-underlined blue words.)

It reduces the temptation to waste an evening (or more) trying to scrounge together a frankenstein system, reading old newsgroups to figure out how to resolve IRQ conflicts and write an autoexec.bat, and all that evil stuff.

One man's "waste" is another man's "enjoy". ;)

Okay, maybe those particular activities aren't particularly enjoyable, but tell me you don't get some enjoyment out of getting an old system working again.

I recall one episode of the original series, in which the crew ends up on one of those "fantasy worlds" (you can imagine it, you get it), and Sulu ends up with some old firearms. Others' reactions are basically "I haven't seen one of those since they banned such-and-such weapons so-and-so years ago!".

So basically: projectile weapons were banned, I guess. Because they're much more deadly than phasers (which are designed to incapacitate).

We really need to get this internet meteorology right.

Well, if I ever get into the The Cloud business, I know what to put on my business cards...

Are you kidding? If Microsoft paid for every bug in Windows, they'd be bankrupt in a week!

Well, it was "fixed" a few minutes ago. So that it displayed a whole bunch of fortunes instead of just one, though. (It seems to be really fixed now. It's just showing one fortune.)

Because they can't charge you for anything if they don't have your credit card number.
(And having to give it to them again is just another step between them and your money, so they do what they can to eliminate it.)

This is just anecdotal, and probably a one-off kind of thing, but the other day my Comcast cable box/DVR was being very slow to do anything (i.e. press a button on the remote, wait several seconds for a response). I fixed it by unplugging it and plugging it back in again.

So, I guess what I'm saying is: have you tried rebooting it? :P