If someone could figure out a technology that would allow me to forget things like "2 Girls 1 Cup" while allowing everything else to remain intact, I'd be eternally grateful.

My opinion is yes. It was a system that was never conceived to fairly handle millions of domain names. "First come first serve" sounds like a fair system, but in fact it is a poor system that encourages a land-rush mentality over something that essentially should be free. It is a false commodity that is being perpetuated by early adopters (and ICANN of course) and should be deprecated. No one should control domain names, they should be done away with entirely. If I am looking for "Bob's Deli in Washington DC", I'd rather just have a search engine figure out what I meant instead of having to remember some lame domain name like "bobsdelicatessenandbagels.us" because THIS Bob's Deli was the umpteenth deli to try to register the same domain name. Might as well just remember an IP address at that point.

I'm just waiting for the "Damage Control Fee" to show up on my next month's statement. Then I'll have to pay an "Account Closure Fee" as well as a "Don't Let Your Ass Hit The Door On The Way Out Fee".

The average TV viewer in the US has about a five minute attention span thus are only interested in the highlight-reel moments. I don't blame our media for creating an oversupply of useless, sensationalist drivel, they are simply responding with what they think WE want. Obviously, we want more TMZ! You know - the stuff that really matters. If I want any real analysis of world events, I'll just turn on The Daily Show.

World of Warcraft is kind of nerdy.

Or not. Other than one point in the article (Competition is good), the reasons people pirate are largely the same.

...but as a developer I just hope IE 9 conforms to standards. Firefox will. Javascript/CSS is all happy and fun until you need to account for IE's quirks.

My guess is he is just copying and pasting from places like Wikipedia. Hungary's constitution will seem remarkably familiar to some folks.

Dear Steve Jobs, How do we remove the line, "sent from my Ipad" from our new constitution? No, seriously :( -Jozsef

You know, the one that starts, "If we just flying the ship into the sun..."

There are many adults that have spell check, and don't use it. If Oregon is giving them tests on a computer, fine, then grade them on that medium. If they fail to USE the spell check functionality, just fail them, or at least seriously penalize them on any test. I know that my spelling ability has degraded since I was in school simply because my process has changed to typing as fast as possible and then editing, not thinking about each letter as a type it so that red underlines won't appear. This leads to some sloppiness that has to be cleaned up after the initial pass, but it is WAY more productive for me than torturing myself over the spelling of some words, like I would if I were writing it out with a pen. If I had pen out an entire essay now, it would probably take me three or four times as long, at minimum. People use computers now, spell checking functions are built into almost all document editors, and no employer cares how you produce an error-free document as long as you do. These are high school students on the cusp of adulthood, not 3rd graders. It is way better to judge them on real word standards, not academic standards that have outlived their usefulness.

Of course, depending on which screener you get, the odds of coming out sterilized are probably the same.

It would be far more beneficial to (almost) everyone if they studied the people involved in creating botnets in captivity. If not for the legal issues involved with that idea...