Unfortunately, this technology probably won't get to far after people read the word 'radioactive', even though I'd hazard to guess that 8g of Thorium probably has less environmental and health impact than 7,500 gallons of gasoline. Otherwise it sounds awesome. Is there another word for 'radioactive' we can use to get rid of the negative connotation?

He actually was a KDE user before hand and switched to GNOME 2 when KDE4 came out. The question is what will he switched to after Xfce gets a big upgrade?

Exactly. They aren't random at all. Laugh if you want but there is actually a RPS strategy guide. Its mostly determining what kind of person your opponent is and knowing what that person is likely to pick from what they know of you. it's much more like the battle of wits in The Princess Bride than random guessing.

This fortune was so close to being in this article:
COBOL is for morons. -- E.W. Dijkstra
Too bad this article wasn't posted sooner

Looking at Wikipedia, it seems Capslock is very important to Japanese keyboards as well as its used to toggle the alphanumeric characters instead of hirigana or katakana. I can't speak from experience but I would assume that key is used a lot. Hopefully, Google is smart enough to realize that that key is useful in other languages and includes that button on languages that need them. With French I can see fixing the input to allow shift-letter-ctrl-accent (or however it works) and everyone being happy, but with a non-latin alphabet telling people to use some other key because the key causes people using a different keyboard layout to yell won't make people too happy.

Poaching is already a big black market and chances are they might kill a few people who come in their way. They probably violate so many other laws that it isn't necessary to do this in the first place. This is true everywhere, I've heard that in the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans give some of their inspectors guns for investigating possible fishing violations. Sadly, it looks like all the drones would seem to do is make the poachers charge more for rhino horns or whatever to offset the cost of them using a bullet to shoot down the Drone and/or the ranger who comes to the location of the fallen drone.

So since Canadian Thanksgiving was in October, isn't "Was stuffed, now recovered" the best option?

According to the article the replacement is 'elevated' and 'imminent'. With imminent they have to say why it is imminent and give a reasonably specific reason why. So you were right about the switch, but it sounds like they are going to at least toggle the switch once or twice before it gets stuck.

If the people at SQLNinja really want a to have it easy to use/install on a redhat machine all they have to do is make their own RPM file and host it themselves. Currently, it looks like all they have available is the source code available. Although I don't know why they made such a request when they don't have any 'easy' (RPM/DEB file) installation process available yet. I'd think RH would tell them to make a RPM file to submit before rejecting them on philosophical grounds.

The big problem with that is that you'd have to respond very quickly to the order before Amazon ships it out. The instantaneous approach has the advantage that if your Aunt does actually try to send something good, well you have a gift certificate for exactly enough to get it and it'll only be a bit late. Also I doubt you want to confirm the correct size for a gifted shirt and miss the deadline to change it and get an XXL instead of and XXS. And this isn't for all presents anyways - its just for the probably bad ones... I know I wouldn't want Amazon to spoil my X-mas morning by telling me what I got beforehand.

My understanding of them suing was not for the free advertisement but rather the fact that the lawsuit will happen in Texas rather than a "Facebook-friendly" court. And Facebook was probably going to sue them anyways, so they took the initiative and did something to improve their chances of winning. I don't see anything wrong with survival instincts and I give them credit for sticking up for their 1st amendment rights.

http://xkcd.com/644/

If you don't have to worry about the environment on the moon, how much gold (or rare earth metals or whatever) do you need to make a robotic lunar mining mission viable?

invest in time travel technology.