That's exactly why I use iTunes to develop all of my WMD projects.

From the iTunes EULA: "You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."

I wasn't on the debate team in school, but I'm pretty sure once you start using whatever is within arms reach as a weapon to physically attack your opponent, it's no longer a "debate". Or perhaps this is some new definition of the word.

I don't know. Do you happen to know what type of radioactive material is in those barrels? Once the steel and concrete are gone, don't you think ocean currents could move it around? It's 30 miles from half moon bay. What's to keep it from washing ashore at some point in the future? Look at all the crap that washed ashore from Japan after the tsunami at Fukushima.

"But he is doubtful that they pose any health or environmental risk..."

To him or his generation.

FTFY.

Except it's Old English for good bye. The usage of it as slang for breasts is believed to be American (as far as I've seen) and as far as I know, dates back to 1997.

Seriously, who picked Ta Ta's as a slang term for boobs? Tata industries was founded by Jamshedji Tata in 1868.

People don't just watch that show because of that. They can go to their own IT department to witness it on any given day. 20-30 years ago that show wouldn't have been green lighted, and rightly so. It would have bombed because most people would have been afraid of being caught watching it.

Clowns are creepy has hell. No one would want to hang out with them.

I wonder what kind of warning will it give if a cat jumps into the drivers seat?

The 1980's are over. Being a nerd doesn't carry the same stigma it once did. I remember seeing a commercial for rice cakes, or something, ten or so years ago where the actor in it listed all of the things she was/trying to be. Mother, wife, blah, blah, and ended with "wanna be computer nerd"

The television show, The Big Bang Theory, is pulling in 15 to 20 million viewers per episode.

So, no, I don't think too many people are worried about it. Hell, back when I had enough free time to worry about what my background was, I always had people comment on how cool the images from Hubble looked as my background.

Regardless, my original comment was meant as a joke.

Except this is /. The average person does not come here. That's why I stated "our" desktops and not "everyone's" desktop.

More like Longhorn/Vista.

Are you joking? NASA probably creates more desktop background images for our computers than any other single entity. ;)

I had an Apple 2 from a couple year prior also. It was a much better computer by every point, other than maybe size/weight. Well, it did have less RAM once I added the 16K RAM pack to the Sinclair. I also had a TI 99/4A from the year before the Sinclair was released. I got the Sinclair for the novelty and because it was relatively cheap. So, no, it was not elegant even then.

Um, yeah. I had one of those, and elegant is not a word that was used to describe them, even when new. Being that I was alive back then, I can also assure you that it was not a more civilized age either. Crime and pollution were much worse than now. Racial prejudices were starting to die off, and sexual orientation prejudices were very prevalent.

I'll give you that. Hackers were pretty damn benevolent. Most cracking was meant to be more for humor or to see if you could do it, than anything harmful. But the internet was a much different place. You wouldn't recognize it. Nor could most of us afford to be on it more than 10 hours a month, connecting with our 300 baud modems. The NSA were also the "good guys" back then. They were "No Such Agency" and hadn't turned on the population they were tasked to protect.

And yes, I saw that movie you are referring to when it was in the theaters for the first time. That was when it was called "Star Wars". No Episode anything.