And thank the prophets it isn't on Facebook. I wonder if it will follow the show, and - if so - will it wade into the unmitigated awesome of the Relaunch series? (Disclaimer: Switch awesome to failure if you didn't like DS9:Relaunch. I thought it was very well done, but that was me.)

Seems like it'd be stupid simple to reverse the two screens in the software, if the screens are the same size and both can detect the stylus (not owning a DS, I don't know that that's the case).

... so I hope that Rackspace would be fair-minded and shut down any site that publishes the Qu'ran.

The same could be said of the Bible, to be honest. Are you going to be honest and upfront enough to demand the same thing for bible websites?

And I find myself wondering just how many people will suddenly be registered as coming from Fort Gay, WV. Certainly more than the 800 people who live there, I imagine.

...it scared the hell out of our secretary about 10 minutes ago. "How does it know?!?" she said. I guess it found her city with just "city" in the box - pretty impressive, I thought.

There are legal processes for protecting against shenanigans like that - lawsuits intended solely to mire the defendant in paper would fall under vexatious litigation, I believe.

Turn it around - someone with a ligitimate complaint would be unable to proceed with it if the defendant stuck his fingers in his ears and went "LA LA LA I can't HEAR YOU"... Default judgments mean that you can't just run away from a suit, you have to face it and deal with it.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

I keep thinking back to our good friend Xibit when I read this article. Yo Dawg, I know you like Gmail, so I got you an inbox for your inbox, so you can read mail while you read mail.

I don't think Duke Nukem Forever-level time scales are a problem, either - unless you're referring to the forever bit. I mean, how long was Team Fortress 2 in development?

On the one hand, this seems to be a simple and trivial app that could easily have been done with HTML. On the other hand, Edward Packard is an absolute master of the format. I can't imagine Hyperspace will have held up over the decades, but I still have the urge to track down my copy.

According to http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1419, Sean O'Keefe (and his son) both survived the crash, though they are "...banged up". This, per a family source.

"You and 54,972 others like this."

During the early 00s nobody cared about anything else than IE because there was no decent alternative (Netscape was hell at the time), so, anything written/acquired back then only really supported IE. Rather than spend money on making it work with newer browsers, the companies decided that they'd just set IE6 as a requirement and force companies to either pay for costly migrations to more modern software, or keep IE6 installed.

However, the threat scenario with Club-K missiles (according to TFA) is not a "shooting war between first world powers". The concern is that if a terrorist organization were to get these missiles, they could sneak up on a warship that doesn't know it's at war. Your step 1 is already solved if you have a ship within visual range.

Not sure what you do about step 3, though. Also not sure why it's more likely that terrorists get these than any other Russian weapon.

So there's a financial incentive to keep IE6 around - for you guys.

Actually I do know my neighbors.

That's why I don't hang around with them. We have no common interests. I've got more in common with my coworkers (engineers/programmers/geeks who like scifi/technology/etc) and people I meet online, than the people in my hood.