my flip video recorder is laughing very loudly.

I wonder if "[citation needed]" is the encryption key to the "insurance" file....

This whole media circus will be over in a second if all the media looks at the contents of that instead of this.

I live with feet in both sides, and I can tell you, Open Source generally does much (100x) better than closed source. Especially in companies that need to release product or die. Hey, that's about every commercial company I know....

no smoke detector in your bedroom?

Name one linux distribution that ships zfs as part of the default installation, and installs by default on it.

154 comments and nobody mentions btrfs? Seriously, we don't need zfs anymore... And most definately not some half-assed probably-patent-encumbered version that will never make it upstream - mark my words: it will be unmaintained within 10 minor kernel versions.

In other news, 100% of heavily intoxicated people claim their driving skills are fine.

And they'd get behind the wheel too, if the law was open to interpretation. Numbers that can be measured accurately through a blood test work so much better for road safety then asking everyone to judge whether their reaction skills are still appropriate.

If everyone bought the underdog, wouldn't they be the market leader?

so THAT is what motivates police officers, now I get it.

is they'll never pay a fine. guess how?

I can think of one: it allows them to see which websites are popular?

Or another one: it allows them to match & check advertisement click throughs?

there's a huge source of information in DNS lookups. The CIA and NSA wants you to use *their* DNS server too.

I think it's a fake, and I know of one achievement he doesn't have (perhaps wowarmory doesn't even know them):

it takes at least 5 kills over Argent Confessor Paletress to get an achievement for killing at least 5 different nightmares. He's only killed this boss once according to his stats page.

other achievements also show incomplete but granting him the achievement points (turkey rogue shooter one for instance).

looks like a giant glitch on blizzards site, and so I'm not trusting his page (not that it isn't impressive, but he certainly hasn't *beat* wow just yet).

Actually that's totally untrue. You NEVER give up your constitutional rights. No contract or agreement can also take them away.

I strongly suspect that the manufacturing capacity of Europe is rather a lot smaller than the total EU-wide demand for consumer goods

CIA factbook on the EU states, quote:

"Exports: $1.952 trillion (2007)
Imports: $1.69 trillion (2007)"

seems like your suspicion is off... the EU is a huge importer of raw goods, obviously the exports must be from something else

Well sometimes you have to take a nice idea and try and make it work. Thanks to the US (largely) being a dickwad this interesting experiment totally failed. Even though Kyoto wasn't ideal, the alternative was far worse - and that's exactly what we got.

The same is happening to health care - why can't people see that it isn't 'bend or bust'? If things don't work out in a year or two, we can effin fix it. That's exactly how Kyoto was intended (which is why it had an expiration date).