NASA tracks space debris orbiting the earth. This asteroid was not orbiting the earth.

using the Wt C++ Web Toolkit.

I'll give you a hint: it's looks a lot like a rolling ball...

Don't waste your time with Gnome & KDE.

and thanks for all the fish!

Thank goodness for ipv6. Now you can run all services on port 80 and just assign a different ip address for each one!

I was recently disappointed to discover that, in order to download music which you have purchased from Amazon, you must use Amazon's proprietary downloading software *and* agree to the 'Terms of Use' associated with said software. After hunting around the website for about 10 minutes I finally found contact information for sales support, and asked for a refund.

Except that Silk is supposed to leverage Amazon's EC2 to greatly speed up the browsing experience. Facebook just pilfers your data because they can.

Technology moves faster than law. As long as the Internet can route packets from point A to point B, the lawmakers will have little say over what those packets contain. We may be driven to encryption, darknets, or something besides DNS, but it won't really matter in the end.

McAfee thinks that Microsoft will never be able to write a secure OS, so they are taking matters into their own hands.

The same could be said of Microsoft and Visual Basic 6.0 and earlier, and look how many people invested their time.

You're absolutely right! That's why we now have C99 ;-)

Windows 7 is a better Windows than Ubuntu, no doubt. However, Ubunutu is a way, way better *nix than Windows 7 can ever hope to be. If you limit yourself to the GUI tools available on an Ubuntu system, then you're only using a fraction of the power that exists there.

they will realize that C with some ASM produces the best performing, most efficient operating systems.

If the same thing happened to Microsoft, Microsoft wouldn't let anybody know.