They say they they are sitting right next to Yahoo in the conference room, just across the table from Netscape and SGI. They are telling me that any Yahoo walking the streets in 2013 is most certainly an imposter, and possibly a time-traveling zombie. Whatever it is, they recommend a bullet to its head, just to be safe.

Hold on.
My teenagers are asking me "what is a yahoo?"
It is a good thing I have a copy of Gulliver's Travels on the book shelf for just such emergencies.

Maybe I'm just sensitized to these kinds of headlines, but it sure seems like many, many officials in the US and UK governments will go to their graves without every having realized they were on the wrong side of history.

To be fair, those same officials would probably think the same of me. Or they would, if they gave a rat's ass about what ordinary people like myself think. The treatment of Snowden and Manning leads me to believe they have no interest in the opinion of hoi polloi. On the contrary, our officials seem little put out that they should have to answer to the unwashed masses.

It is sad to think that Obama's legacy as the first black President and as a health care reformer is being overshadowed by the institutionalization of the surveillance state and the persecution of those would challenge it.

Even $1 of "screw you, Facebook" money must taste indescribably sweet.

I lived in Switzerland for a few years. To dispose of your trash, you bought specially marked garbage bags at a store. The cost of the bag included the cost of waste disposal. Fill up the bag with trash, leave it out on trash day, and it was hauled it away. There was an incentive to recycle because you did not need to place your recyclables in a trash bag.

In fact, if you put recyclables inside of your trash bag, you were mailed a fine for putting them in the wrong stream. (I never did understand how they knew who was responsible, but they did).

I saved a bundle switching from Comcast to Century Link. I get 8 Mbps/down which is fine for my Netflix and other streaming needs. If the price goes up, I'll just switch back to Comcast on one of their introductory plans. Then again, in a year from now, it is likely that HSPA+ and LTE wireless broadband will be competitive with Comcast and Century link in terms of price for my personal bandwidth needs.

It's a good time to be a customer.

PS: I'm lucky. My Century Link connection is still up.

Amen. There were engineers before there were accredited engineering programs. There were business professionals before there were business degrees. How was that even possible? Universities taught students to think well. After that, anything was possible.

There are different personality types. Throughout history there have always been inspectors or some others doing quality control. As a design/dev type, it would drive me nuts. But that's just me.

They pour strong drinks at the 5 Point. It's great dive bar, much safer than the Twilight Exit and more poorly lit than The Canterbury. And it's pretty small. I'm more than a little surprised the they made it onto Slashdot. I guess anything can happen when social media is involved.

Zuckerberg needs programmers like the LA Lakers need basketball players.

The irony drips onto my tongue like drops of sweet honey. Best of all, irony is free.
In all seriousness, $250K sounds like a fair deal. He should just pony up the scratch.

This is an orderly process to deal with financial institutions that have to be bailed out. They are put into receivership. As the lender of last resort, the government makes good on a company's debt, but puts the company into receivership. The company's assets are sold to pay down the debt. Effectively, the company can be broken up and its pieces sold. Trading of the company's stock is frozen and the stock becomes effectively worthless (provided the amount of the bailout exceeded company's assets).

This is how the dissolution of Washing Mutual was handled. Unfortunately, all of the company's assets were sold to JP Morgan Chase, another to-big-to-fail institution. IMHO, Washington Mutual should have been broken into pieces, and the pieces sold to community and regional banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receivership

Isn't there an economic argument in here somewhere? It sounds like glut. An over abundance of music drives down the prices. When a glut occurs in the housing market, it depresses home prices. Some home builders go out of business because they can't charge enough for their work to make ends meet. They find other employment, even if their passion was home building. Maybe there are too many people trying to earn a living from music all at the same time? Perhaps the market for music is saturated and cannot absorb everyone who would like a career in writing and performing music?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fhNVQPb5I

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of rare earths producer Molycorp Inc. MCP -25.12% fell as much as 22% at the open Thursday after the company warned it expects lower cash flow and revenue in 2013 than earlier anticipated. The company also said it would not proceed with the planned next phase of development at its Mountain Pass, Calif., manufacturing complex until it saw an improvement in rare earths demand, prices, and easier access to capital.

I am not particularly talented in math(s). Math is hard for me.
I do not use much math(s) in my day job.
I consider math(s) the single most important subject I studied in my education, from third grade through Master's degree.

Education is not the same as training.
One can train for a vocation.
Coding is a vocation.
Do not study math(s) or attend a university if training, not education, is the only goal.