some day, in the far off future of October 1st, 1993, 'people' will understand computers and all of this tomfoolery will cease to be a problem. The internet will revert to civilized discourse for the propagation of knowledge and ideas.

*Checks watch* Any day now...

Its wierd because if you pointed to an individual letter written in cursive and asked me which one it was, I couldn't tell you with more than a 1-in-26 certainty, yet I can read cursive writing, not very fast, but it is understandable to me.

Is it just me or does the tear look a little like an anus... Does this mean that Jupiter just got tore a new one?

at&t and most other carriers are pretty much required to allow you to switch phone numbers. You have to complain about it though.

One thing you can do is if your phone allows it, you can assign unknown/blocked a ring tone, but make it ring silent (this varies from phone to phone, google is your friend, I did it on my Razr). Include something in your voicemail message that if they are calling from an unknown/blocked number, leave a message and you'll get back to them.

I'm all for having 96 flavors of firefox, such as iceweasel and icecat.

That way you can sell people with clip art, flying headlines, and indecipherable diagrams that will cause people to want what you've got, but have no clue what it is and how it can help them!

I hope that they put on a really really good telephoto lense. Those original footprints have the chance of lasting for thousands of years if WE DON'T STOMP ALL OVER THEM WITH A FRICKING ROBOT.

the zune subscription tied with the zune software is incredibly easy and perfectly legal. $15 bucks a month and you get unlimited access to music that lasts as long as your subscription, you do, however, get to keep 10 songs a month that are included with the cost of the subscription. I use it for my listening needs because i don't need to hoard music forever, being able to play an album for a month or two and then delete it is precisely what I need in a service. Yes its drm, Yes its not my music, but i'm perfectly aware of that and I'm ok with it. I "rent" books from the library and "rent" movies from Netflix, why not music?

P.S. Its amazing how fast it is too, I mean you have microsoft hosting 2 million songs and only 6 people are using it. Songs download LIKE THAT! *snaps fingers*

Imagine how slow bittorrent would be if only 6 people used it...

In a game that lets you consume mutant rat meat, I think that the 200 years in a barren wasteland has influenced the definition of "consumable."

It ate a goose, could be the start of a biological grey-goo scenario.

The legal definition (as was explained to me by a drunk law school student) is that a company is a group of people working together towards a shared goal. I.E. a bunch of boy scouts who want to go camping could technically call themselves a company, a bunch of guys looking to go out drinking could technically be called a company. Scale that up and the foundation could be technically called a company.

Your issue isn't with the technical use of the word, but diction, its implied meaning and associations. That being said, the use is technically incorrect but not artistically apt.

provided that the SSD is used only for hibernation data, the cost of the drive is more than the cost of the data, meaning that you can replace the drive for cost of drive + nada. If, however, you wish to rely on the drive for anything more than hibernation, you run into a case where the data is more valuable than the drive and additional measures should be taken to protect that data. Knowing most people though, they'll just curse and turn purple when their report is gone and the drive is dead.

I don't think the submitter was asking for a Sunday school answers to a request for science instruction. While it is perfectly acceptable to use God to fill the holes in knowledge for the time being (if a society must because it has a sever phobia of areas of uncertainty and doubt), it is not acceptable for a society to refuse to acknowledge scientific findings, or refuse the future possibility of what science may find simply because it has already answered that particular question with the stock "The Creator did it."

At least they GET data rather than just basing their opinions what they're fed. Honestly, when was the last time you did a thorough scientific experiment in your personal life? I think that personal science involves questioning the status quo, not accepting everything at face value, and figuring out how to answer your questions. Simply because your methods wouldn't stand up to rigorous testing doesn't mean that you can't use it to make good decisions. Ultimately I think that is the role of science in peoples lives, to answer questions and aid in decisions.

While I don't always agree with the mythbuster's methods, at least they don't sit around waiting for the talking heads to hand down the truth from on high. The scientific spirit of the program is strong if the flesh is sometimes weak.

P.S. Relying entirely on mythbusters for your science is just as bad as blindly believing the news (New study! Polyester socks triple your risk factor for big left toe cuticle cancer (from .000000003% to .000000009%) so avoid cotton/poly blends like the plague! (they also make you fat and are linked to male pattern baldness!!!)) /sarcasm

i think it may have been one of the nine sub-squares in his sudoku puzzle he was working on before you interrupted him to sign your book.