Agree with this.

Kinda difficult to brush up on polyacetylimidazolidindiones if you slept through that chapter, without dedicating some hard learning time to it.

I got better.
"What's your IP address?"
"127.0.0.1"

There should be a "not equal" sign in the middle. Bad Slashdot! Bad!

Updates bugfixes.

The niche that Slackware fills still better than any other distro is: small, highly customized, floppy-sized (or close, USB stick-based these days) "live" bootable mini-distributions aimed at a very specific goal. Such as system repair, etc. Slackware is just easier to adapt to such a role, because of the lack of those basic features you mention.

Not Walnut Creek, but still Slack 3.6 (Cheapbytes was the source for me). Easier and faster than downloading over 28.8k dialup.

Kila-pascal must be the pressure equivalent of the Kill-A-Watt. It tells you where you're using too many torrs and how to avoid wasting them.

I propose a law that requires all books, even those not having any sexual content, to carry a big label "WARNING: books with erotic content have been linked to sexual excitation"

My credit card has 2 addresses on file. One is in CT (which has sales tax), one is in New Hampshire (no sales tax). That's because I live part time in both states. Then, for digital downloads which state law applies: CT or NH? Will I have to pay the download tax or not?

Is it fancier to call those hydrogen ions? Because they're protons. Proton accelerator, sounds nice enough to me.

I don't like the new "terms of use" that google recently slapped on its wallet. Among other things, it gives them free permission to run credit checks on you whenever they please.

I don't use it for that reason.

From TFA: "Although this move by Google might seem high-handed, it reduces the friction for purchases inside Android apps and therefore makes users more valuable,"

Makes users more valuable? In English please?

Lots of doctors ride buses in big metropolitan areas like NYC, Mr. know-it-all. And they carry pagers that work on the cell networks. My wife for one.

Tell that to my CDMA 3G phone with unlimited data through Sprint. Specifically the Motorola XPRT, Sprint's version (and pretty much identical to) the Motorola Droid Pro, the best smartphone in existence.

Kills the 3rd party accessory market. Because you won't be able to get "crypto" power blocks from anyone else. Wanna bet?