You might be surprised what could happen as far as motivation to build new technologies if the general public saw a real picture of some distant world with bluish waters, brown and green continents and pearly white clouds.

Whoever you are, Slashdot should interview you about your experiences.

Its amazing that this is the only comment that mentioned Verizon math. Maybe I'm not on the right site. This is Slashdot correct?

Garage fires aren't a very common topic on Slashdot.

Don't they already put that warning on the box?

You are clearly Apple's target market. They should listen to you.

Given recent events, you'd be lucky if you even had a chance to open your mouth.

Happy Birthday and exactly, I am also related to someone whose birthday is tomorrow, which is how I also remember it. Its amazing how with so much information at people's fingertips that they keep eroding facts.

Tomorrow is also the 30th anniversary of Richard Stallman announcing the FSF/GNU initiative.

Yeah, that was a mistake, how many times have I accidentally rebooted Linux because I was trying to login to my windows vm.

You're right that's how I ended up with two kids.

If you want to make a lot of stupid jokes about the Pentium chip, don't worry, they were already made 10 years ago in the other Slashdot article

Sally: Mom, Bobby is moving my hand, tell him to stop.
Bobby: I'm not moving it.

Missing option: Answering this poll

I had to do a SIGINT on previous girlfriends too.