I know the B stands for backhoe, but what do the G and P stand for?

One option I've seen on other message boards is that you can't edit anything you posted, but you can add a postscript. The only real difference between that and replying to your own post is that readers would see your postscript before the 20 replies instead of after them.

Jobs was a businessman with relatively little technical ability. Gates had a little more technical ability that Jobs, but he was still primarily a businessman. Neither of them were scientists, and neither of them are respected for anything other than being rich.

Woz was a good engineer, but I don't know of any scientific research that he did. He's also more or less unknown to most Americans.

Einstein is the only scientist on your list, and his work is now nearly 100 years ago (some of his early work is over 100 years ago). He wasn't born in the United States, either; he only came to the United States because he had to flee the Nazis.

Really? The original Terminator movie came out in 1984. People now in their 60s would have been about the same age as most of us here. Someone now in their 90s might not know about the movie, but I would bet at least as many people in their 60s and 70s know the name John Connor as do people in their teens and 20s.

You must be new here...

My Linux desktop at home shows a message that I should restart the computer every time there's a kernel update. Off the top of my head, it seems like kernel updates come a few times per month. Of course, I let the message sit there for weeks, and my desktop happily keeps running. I don't know how well Windows works these days if you don't reboot when it tells you to.

I guess I can see how it would be easier to bribe an entire person than it would be to bribe only the torso and a leg or two.

Coming Summer 2015 to a theater near you...

As soon as I saw "Bennett", I immediately scrolled the browser window to about 3/4 down the page. I was shocked to find that the comments started only about 1/4 down the page.

Half of all advertising is a complete waste. The problem is figuring out which half.

Well, we already have a word for atoms with the same number of protons but differences in some other property: isotope. Whether a difference in something other than number of neutrons would use the term "isotope" or some other new term is a decision that will have to be made if and when the discovery is made.

Who gets to decide whether or not some specific use is a "weapons platform", "human rights" violation, or "oppression"? I highly doubt that many developers want to spend all their time dealing with it, and courts probably won't want to deal with such a vague contract.

What do chickens have to do with KFC?

Guess that means something else is to blame for destroying your ability to judge attempts at humor.

I always knew rap was bad, but I never knew it could transmit Ebola. One more reason I'm glad I don't like rap.