No, what he meant was that Organtini is going to put a bunch of Higgs Bosons on a DVD and sell them to people who want them.

I don't think Higgs Bosons will catch the interest of the mass market.

A feral druid blog I follow had this to say about the banning:

TLDR:

• There are tens of thousands of Linux/Wine Diablo 3 players.
• Only 4 of them were banned.
• Whatever they were banned for is completely unrelated to Linux or Wine
• They were either cheaters or ran something else that turned up false positive by Warden.
• If they were innocent, then they are pretty much screwed without possible help.

(Full source here)

Blizzard doesn't make a point of banning Linux users. The same source claims that there was an incident a few years ago where they inadvertently banned everyone using Cedega to play WoW, but when Cedega contacted them they determined the bans were false positives and not only lifted them but credited them with 20 days of game time.

I've read that Maptools (an open-source virtual tabletop for RPGs/etc.) currently is non-functional under Java 7, presumably due to an incompatible library.

However, the way some things are headed, why have any hardware at all? The only hardware you need is a screen to display the content/produce the sound which has been generated in the cloud...

And perhaps a controller or other input device.

It's been done before...

(Which obviously proves satellites cause sea level rise. )

Well, there is one particular satellite that has been well known to cause sea levels to rise quite significantly, so I think you might be on to something here...

At least some of the MCSE-related exams do as well, though they're adaptive in a different manner -- if you miss a question on one subject area, it asks more (harder) questions on that subject to determine if it was just a tiny mistake or if your knowledge on that subject is actually lacking. The drawback to the format is you can't go back and revise your answers before time is up since, if you could, you could pay close attention to the questions being asked and go "Oh, I must have picked the wrong answer to this one, let's try this other answer."

The net result is a much shorter test than when I took the NT Server 4.0 exam (70-067) way back when (a few months before they changed to the adaptive format.)

(Disclaimer: I never actually did anything with my (now defunct) certification, I just had a high-school level class (as a pilot program) that actually taught it and included a trip to take the actual test.)

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/03/27/android-or-condom-can-you-tell-which-is-a-phone/

Need I say more?

...kind of the same reasoning they use to justify high ETF's that still cost over $100 one month before the contract ends.

T-Mobile pro-rates ETFs. My wife and I are changing plans with them in a couple of weeks to save $50/mo, but it'll be costing us $50 per line in ETFs on the current plan (presumably because the new plan is unsubsidized and the existing one isn't). The reason we're waiting two weeks is because we're right on the cut from when their ETF goes from $100/line to $50/line.

I believe there was a class-action lawsuit against some other carriers (Verizon I think?) about ETFs that basically forced them to pro-rate ETFs as well, so I don't think this is exclusive to our carrier.

like you don't xerox on a Cannon.

I tried to xerox on a cannon, but every time I fire up the machinery there's a loud bang.

I'd really like to know what kind of information you have that still needs to be a secret in the year 2111 when we'll all be driving fusion powered flying time traveling cars and vacationing in hotels on the Moon and Mars and carrying petabyes of data on our iMicrosoftPods with end-to-end DRM that terminates in chip implanted in our brains.

The keys to the DRM, of course.

Knowing people's fanatical devotion to their model M keyboards, I think they'd rather take the bullet than let the keyboard do it :-p

You're associated with industrial products, not big bouncing boobs? I'm sure there's an audience for that (Possibly NSFW).

In China, if your $180 camcorder breaks due to a burst electrolytic capacitor, you can take it to the corner electronics repair shop and pay somebody $10 to open it up, unsolder the bad capacitor, solder in a new one, and send you home with a working camcorder. In America, $10 wouldn't even pay the postage to ship it to a repair center, let alone the $100-200 or more you'd have to pay for the actual repair labor.

I have a TV that, due to some rough handling in a move, had one of the jacks for component input break off. It still worked if you could manage to get a cord to stay in just right (I think we had a solution involving tape, cardboard and clay), but otherwise was very fickle.

Presumably, somebody skilled in electronics could get a $2 jack and with 10-20 minutes or so solder a replacement into place. Instead, a TV repair shop wanted $75 just to diagnose the problem much less start fixing it.

I kept the TV (and did not end up getting it repaired), but the fact that someone here in the US would be more likely to spend $500+ on a new TV and just throw away the old one "because it's broken" is stupid, and I'd love to go to some shop around the corner and get it fixed for $10.

Instead of using email attachments, make it company policy to drop the attachments on a network drive, and instead share intranet links.

Anyone who spear phishes with attachments will fail. Now they will need intranet access, which can be significantly harder to acquire.

This works well, right up until the point where you need an attachment from someone outside the company.

Say... the latest revision to a requirements doc being sent back and forth between a client and a vendor...

Admittedly, I only skimmed it and did read that the results seemed to conclude that cell phones were not a cause. However, I was trying to explain someone else's post -- probably a futile cause. The word "speculated" in my post for a reason.

Perhaps I should have emphasized that other people have speculated and there's no real studies that prove or disprove it (I won't count a single study as disproving, for all I know the methodology was flawed.)