Anybody else remember the Green Card Lottery Spam all over USENET. Good times. Canter & Siegel...

This is not the first time that Netflix increases its prices and there is an outrage. And there have always been those predictions that this will be the beginning of the end. So much for that... I will stay a Netflix customer even though my 3 DVD out and streaming will go up by $5 (a 15% or so hike). It just makes good business sense to me to unbundle the mail-order and the streaming departments considering that the latter will go up in price a lot for Netflix.

I agree with the original poster that Google should offer a Kid search engine or a kid's version of YouTube. That would be awesome and I am very sure a lot of schools would love this concept as well. That said, there are plenty solutions available that can be implemented on the client side. I have absolutely no stake in any of the following companies but I am a father of three and love what they offer. My kids love Zoodles which is pretty much a collection of age appropriate content for kids of all ages. You can find a lot more in the educational arena, like Nick Boost or PBS Kids. Just pick your children's favorite TV channel and chances are they have a lot of online content for your child to play with. Getting age appropriate content is very easy. Even on the search engine side of things we have kid safe offerings. There is Kid Rex and plenty other Google based search engines. Last but not least you should make sure your child can only access child appropriate URLs. For that you can choose any of the web browsers and built-in OS mechanisms to restrict web access. My favorite child browsers are KidZui and the now defunct Kid's Browser.

It seems that the field of mathematics is cut throat. Just the tone alone from that blog post would make me reconsider even trying to break into mathematics as a researcher. I thought only computer geeks are like that on USENET.

Well, according to his own website (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html) his plan is to finish volume 5 by 2020 and will then revisit volumes 1-3 to update them. And only then, and if he's still alive, will ge start on volumes 6 and 7, which he doesn't count as "central core of computer programming for sequential machines", though.

Does this really come as a surprise?

Yeah, that was weird. In some bullet point the author is missing the times when Linux was "hard" to install and in another he is missing tools like linuxconf. No UNIX admin needs configuration tools to do his/her job. All you need is vi.

... they don't seem to go out of business anytime soon.

I don't know why the article does not link to the original advisory but the ISC qualified this vulnerability with a severity level high.

Akibia. I didn't have the pleasure, yet, to open a service request with them but colleagues from a different company also using Akibia have only good words for them.

we did move our hardware support to a third party company. Oracle's pricing is ridiculous compared to what we were used to with Sun. In addition Oracle was just unable to get us renewal quotes for equipment we have installed overseas in time. We still have to keep some support contract with Oracle, though, in order to have software support for Solaris. If you do the math we probably still pay about the same for annual support but at least we don't have to deal with Oracle anymore to get a drive replaced.

But that would be phone manufacturer's doing and not Google's. Big difference, no? There will always be at least one choice of phones that allow you the full pure Android experience: the developer phones like Nexus 1 or the Nexus S.

Ditto. Fed up with Firefox causing the beach ball on my Mac too many times (I am very sure this was caused by Flash, though) and other weird things like Javascript stopped working until I restarted the browser and page print outs that were cut-off I tried out Chrome. Once I installed similar extensions like the ones I loved on Firefox I don't think I'll ever switch back.