Wayland waylaid; now way late.

Well... It's a version of LISP customized for text-editor use. At its core it's still LISP. [And you're talking to someone who has used Emacs and written Emacs LISP, as well as Common LISP, Franz LISP (and ported the interpreter from BSD to SunOS and Ultrix), and InterLISP-D, since the mid 1980s... So, while certainly not an expert, I have some Emacs and LISP exposure. :-) ]

One of the least informed statements I've ever read on /.

Ignoring the fact that Emacs is an editor, not a scripting language, one can do just about anything in LISP (and Emacs LISP), and LISP itself has been around since 1958. I even got paid as a research assistant in college in 1985 to work in LISP on a Xerox 1108 graphical workstation using InterLISP-D (still have the manual). The whole OS was written in LISP and the system had ethernet, mouse and 19" gray-scale monitor. It was fucking awesome.

"Peggy" or "Pegging" the programmer? Given the current job market, either seems plausible.

...about the second letter of the Greek alphabet and I always wake in a cold, cold sweat, screaming "oh my God, NO!" Can't figure out what it means.

Fire department. :-)

Thanks Buckaroo.

The alternative would be Watson talking about things like "The Shocker" (Google it, but not at work) - which would probably creep most of us out.

I thought Google+ is where things go to die. :-)

Exactly. As noted in the movie Volunteers

• Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
• Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
• Chung Mee: Money is money.
• Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?

While certainly not "most", I'm having trouble defining Jamie Dimon as "the very best":

Sure, he got his pay docked by 1/2 to $11.5M for the bank's bad behavior - while he was at the helm - but then gets a a raise to (reportedly) $20M because, "Mr. Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period." -- a difficult period in which, again, he was at the helm.

Nothing but a boys club, patting each other on the back for screwing over the little people and the regulators...

Technically that would be Delaware for most (all?) banks, though those offices tend to be just shells for taxes/litigation. But I get your point for really big national banks, like BofA, and combined investment/savings banks. There are already smaller regional banks, like SunTrust, as well as state/local banks, which are *not* too big to fail.

Umm... "give"? Pretty sure those things show up in the sticker price.

That's adorable. The manufacturer has a vested interested if the recall/update costs exceed the projected liability costs from wrongful death/injury suits and/or negative publicity / shareholder response. /cynical

That simply will not happen - or not in any of our lifetimes (which, of course, may be determined by the lack of auto-update...)

... how much money does someone really need? I'm not against Capitalism, but seriously, does one person really need $100 million, or even $20 million as an (semi?) annual salary or bonus? Does a CEO need 500 times (recent figures) the average salary of his/her own employees - you know, the people doing the actual work?