You breathe breaths. One's a noun and the other is a verb. They're pronounced very differently. English isn't even my native language, but even I know the difference.

So they got boondoggled. There's really nothing they can do. Someone is counting their ill-gotten gains at everyone else's expense, and that's business as usual for the world. That's always how it is, people unjustly enrich their pockets at everyone else's expense. It's not illegal to be an unethical crook.

Here's a new video card for $0.01 - shipping is $200.

I have a Korean 2560x1440 IPS display I got for $285 from eBay (including shipping). It has 3 missing pixels, but they're very hard to see. Best monitor for the price imho.

You don't get it: material in space is worth a whole lot more than material on earth. If you brought it back down to earth it would be worth only a tiny fraction of that price and defeat the entire purpose of catching it. We already have lots of water on earth, and this whole planet is made of all kinds of metals, there is no water shortage here. Asteroid is worth a lot in space because bringing material out of the gravity well and atmosphere is expensive, to the tune of several thousand dollar per pound. If we slowed down this asteroid to make it go into a stable orbit around the earth (or the moon) then it really would be worth billions, if not trillions. The problem is slowing down an object out of a hyperbolic orbit - it requires tremendous amount of force. We could change its trajectory slightly so it enters the atmosphere for aerobreaking, but that requires very precise control of the trajectory to make sure it doesn't end up sub-orbital. :)

This is exactly what I was going to post, I searched to see if anyone had posted the dancing rabbits problem yet and there it is.

If you leave it up to the user to decide whether or or not to bypass the security protocols, then you have no security protocol. It's like getting the most secure door installed on your house but allowing your 4 year old to open the door to strangers.

“Schools are supposed to teach best practice, which includes ethics and adherence to reasonable laws,” -- yes... in some imaginary world they live in that's much more important than fixing exploits in your software. That's the right attitude for having a very hack-able site.

I heard Guy Hingston saved a bus load of children from a burning building... unfortunately he sued Google, so that makes him a total douche, regardless of how many children he saved. Oh... it turns out he didn't save any children from the burning building. He can go to hell.

OCTO MOM. Think about it... this is genius.

to ask people to install ask.com toolbar when they carelessly go through the update. Every idiot I know has ask.com toolbar installed, they have no idea how they got it or what it does, and they don't understand that it redirects their searches to their own shitty web site. It's disgusting, and it's disgusting that Oracle benefits from this.

I am so glad our Justice Department is busy locking up such horrible and dangerous criminals. Thank goodness the Department of Justice is hard at work locking up these criminal masterminds. Now we can all feel safer.

They go to great lengths to ensure the content industry fat cats don't lose any money, because how else could they afford their eight figure salaries if a few people get their disgusting hands on their content without paying? They might have to go down to ... *gasp* seven figure salaries, ugh just saying it brings chill to my spine. That's unimaginable cruelty! Thank you Department of Justice for using my money to protect the interests of a select few that I don't give a crap about. Thank you, very much.

In the mean while, identity theft is at an all time high. Bravo, Department of Justice! Bravo!

It's not hard to get to Mars, the hard part is getting back.

... because we really don't want sex offenders playing games. They should be out on the street raping people instead. Someone clearly didn't think this through. Kudos on stupidity.

I agree, it will be a gradual change, at each step we'll lose a bit more one day we'll wake up and there will be no Internet. American lawmakers are already pushing their own agenda trying desperately to gain control of this beast that has escaped. It's only matter of time until greedy bastards ruin everything. Greed disgusts me.