Bringing it up to an average of 100.

That sir, is the suggested retail. I just bought an i7-930 for $199 (Microcenter). Just shop around and there will always be a good deal better than MSRP. The DDR3 and motherboard were what really killed me. But in all, I got a new top of the line i7 system with 6Gb of RAM for ~$750. I built a Phenom II X2(4) 555BE with the same specs and it came out to be only $100 cheaper in the end.

The spammers using this botnet most likely cut it off to work on enlarging another.

Why waste time(read money) repairing something broken when the new, harder to kill version does the same thing in the same time-cost?

to protect our children's education than a trusty old Remington.

Reminds me of another war. Something about terror?

Just because we don't fight a country doesn't mean we are not at war with another entity. Or even the war on terror was brought about on a country to justify Washington calling it a "war."

Reminds me of this video of a cop chasing off some kids just trying to be kids.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h2KD5FTkkw

Removing youth from pro-social environments like this only promotes hatred of "the man" and forces them into hiding. Once in hiding, they gain anti-social attitudes resulting in activities far worse than loitering in public places (where they did no real harm in the first place).

1. Just get any disk.
2. Format with a FS that allows filesizes as big as the drive.
3. Create a contiguous flat file on the drive.
4. ...
5. Realize you were trying to reinvent a wheel that took >40 years to make in the first place?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Parc#Adoption_by_Apple gives a great example of Xerox's past(failed) attempt to do the same thing.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx

Some fun reading. I just read it while going through old Daily WTF posts no more than 2 minutes ago.

Look at the world today. Perhaps we are ex-meteor-dwelling overlords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ_WxTiP--c

Just found this video, clearly shows the laser in action at the ALTB.

Something else to consider would be the effect of a crash on the "external battery". TFA doesn't address this and if the substance isn't stable you might get a small version of a punctured Li-Ion. (Small fires on/around the vehicle are not good after a crash)

Might be a tech to watch but with the "still pretty far from commercialization" problem I don't expect to see this anytime soon.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/08/verizon-wireless-temporarily-blocks-some-4chan-traffic/

Looks like it was only part of 4chan and the blocked parts are unblocked again. No news here.

Exactly.

Mars (along with Venus) do not have a magnetosphere in the same way Earth does. They have ionospheres that operate in similar fashion but the magnetic field only deflects a bit of the solar wind.

I've been using the nightly builds for awhile and this feature bugged the hell out of me. Give it some time and it will grow on you. When you open a link in a tab, you don't have to go looking toward the back of the list of tabs (helpful if you have way too many open).

After using it for a while, I feel that it's more natural way of doing things.