But even that doesn't always work. When was the last time you filled out an application that required (otherwise I don't give it) your email address and there wasn't even enough room to write it? Limitations are found even on physical paper.

That, and you have to question how much time was spent on social networking sites as well. I know of a lot of people with similar "disadvantaged" backgrounds that waste their days away on Facebook et. al.

Besides, they should be reading more /. and other real news sites!

BP took shortcuts. It is their fault.

And while I agree that our dependence on oil is a contributing factor, everyone saying it's all our fault needs to stop driving, stop taking the bus or anything that uses petrol and live up to your claims. Yes, alternative fuels will be nice someday, but get off your soapbox and start practicing what you're preaching. It's not so easy, is it?

We need more R&D into alternative fuels but right now much of that is being done by the oil companies, and our shoddy education system based on standardized tests doesn't exactly turn out the best and the brightest to contribute to more R&D. I see that as a bigger problem that will fail to sustain America.

Like "All My Circuits: the Movie"?

• Movie:If you want Calculon to race to the laser gun battle in his hover-Ferarri, press 1. If you want Calculon to double-check his paperwork, press 2. Enter now.
• (Fry presses 1)
• Movie: You have pressed 2.
• Fry: No I didn't!
• Movie: I'm almost positive you did.

How would that help? Yeah, they screwed up by making shortcuts and not properly inspecting equipment and they should be fined. Fixing this disaster would cost them big. But to get rid of BP - one of the largest oil companies in the world? Consider the economic impact of that - many jobs lost, decreased tax revenue, and certainly OPEC will raise oil prices from a drop in competition (they do that).

...I'm a doctor, not a patient! - Dr. McCoy when asked to wave the tricorder medical scanner for 24 hours waiting for a diagnosis.

Silverlight supports Accessibility APIs natively. It also works on Mac and Linux (through Moonlight). It can also be easily scaled if, for example, hosted in a DIV with relative size (and, optionally, positioning).

Hear that sound coming closer? Watch out for the Langoliers!

Drag the Windows task bar to the top of the screen where you claim your mouse usually is. So now what't the point? The GP post asks the right question: how does this boost productivity if I can't place Windows side by side (and in Windows 7 this is even easier by dragging one window to one edge of the screen, and another to the other edge of the screen)?

Actually, Silverlight 3 supports browser navigation with very little work on the Silverlight developer's part. Without refreshing the page, it adds to the history by using bookmarks and clicking back does work. Also with very little work is a way to represent the same data in the web page via server output using SEO extensions, so content is still searchable. Sure you have to code a minimal UI with the same data, but with shared business objects and a thinweight UI layer you can achieve this pretty simply.

Mod parent up. Although it seems most so far get what UAC does/doesn't, for the rest of you: UAC helps prevent privileged execution by running everything in a filtered token for administrators (very close to normal user). If a virus doesn't require elevated privileges then UAC won't help.

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But not all, and they have no way QA to validate their claims.

Besides, how can you trust that anyone knows then end date? Why would Mayan's have such knowledge, and that a culture that is long lost even has an understanding of the heavens? Even with all today's telescopes, probes, and such we still can't explain much / most of it.

It seems foolish to believe, and a waste to discuss. And if I'm wrong...well, you can point and laugh at me after the apocolypse.

As someone with a child recently...I have to agree. Children aren't for everyone - whatever the reason. My only grip is that too many people that can't afford children are having too many (and are a strain on our economy), and that people that can give children rich, full lives (like with all that travel!) aren't having any/enough.

ViM only needs 7 versions to get it right. Emacs is at 23?

I remember sometime back on /. when WSJ was reporting rumors and the statement was basically the same: WTF WSJ? I thought they were supposed to be more tactful than that, or are they just trying to cope in a world where print is quickly dying (and the economic situation doesn't help either)?