Don't forget the various subsets of "cloud computing".
If you have a "personal cloud", you actually do, at least least in part, control the computers. From the definition I got from Microsoft Norway, it pretty much just means your server room uses virtual machines in a dynamic way with lots of automation.

Every time someone new pops by #yourfavoritedistro on irc.freenode.net, they have to learn how to pose a question on IRC.

This includes figuring out what is relevant, what is not relevant, when to include a pastebin link with logs, config files and such, the exact command the user is typing, the expected output, the actual output and often also an explanation of the higher goal in case a whole different approach could be suggested.

New users also have issues with using needless abbreviations line "u" and "plz" and use the enter key as punctuation, making it very hard to follow their broken up sentences in crowded channels. Once you stop doing that and put your entire question in one message, don't make assumptions, paste your command and output exactly, the amount of help you can get from friendly voulenteers is nothing short of astonishing.

I know, it's a lot, but you get used to it, and it's great!

To say something is "inexplicable", you first have to prove it is so. Otherwise I am very uncomfortable with you calling it that. I am much more comfortable with "we haven't figured that one out yet" and am willing to live my life either not having that information, or helping to figure it out, depending on what the information is. Deciding on one's own that something is "inexplicable" is a pointless activity and is probably detrimental to progress.

So how do you make a "You're infected with X" page people actually trust?

Unlike the batteries however, it can be stored indefinitely without degrading, and be "charged" (tank filled) in a matter of seconds. Also it doesn't wear down (to anywhere near the same degree, anyway) when recharged.

The. Car. Is. Not. Gone. If you have the technology to copy my car, leaving the original intact so I can still use it, feel absolutely free to do so.

I really want to enroll there, make a little PHP script to redirect to a random link on either a newspaper, or the pirate bay (50% chance of each), and then distribute that link in an email. Wonder what they'd do with that. What about a site where if you aren't logged in, all links to its content redirect to copyrighted material? They aren't *really* going there, you just don't have access to where they actually go...

I thought toys with small parts had warnings and age restrictions on them, magnets or not..?

wget --quiet -O - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot | grep title | grep "Bet Big On Mobile Payments"

$ wget --quiet -O - http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot | grep title | grep "Bet Big On Mobile Payments" AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Bet Big On Mobile Payments What's with the & ? Stop doing that, please!

Nothing more interesting than that it had to be checked in as "special luggage" I'm afraid. It traveled in a small cardboard box which came back to me on the luggage line along with my bag.

Can I still bring a cell phone and a laptop battery, fully charged and with their power controllers removed? Can I still bring a carry-on bag with two 1 meter reinforced steel rods connecting the handle, without anyone wondering if it could be dismantled and the steel rods used as quite effective swords? And will they still take my pencil, so I can't bring one to take notes while I make the laptop battery explode? Will they still not allow my modded PSP because it's see-through and the sight of electronics scares the shit out of them?

The lady who made them do it was feeling a lot better, and didn't have headaches anymore, until she saw me surfing wirelessly using a router located on the floor below. Signal strength was still perfectly fine...

I'm still wondering when someone is going to make a "handheld" Altair, reproducing some of the looks and most of the functions (except for plugin cards) and selling it on ThinkGeek or somesuch for a reasonable price. I want to play around with an Altair, but I'm not going to get one of those huge replicas: http://www.altairkit.com/index.html

I've tried several programs that study the source code and tries to find possible null pointers, unchecked input, possibly dirty data and whatnot, and they all have one problem - false detections. When the program studies the source code and gives you the output of this process, you can quickly decide whether to act on it, fixing the potential bug, ignore the problem as "intended behaviour", or simply correct the syntax so the source code studying application doesn't complain about it anymore. However, if you were to run this thing, which is only concerned with the binary, wouldn't it have to run again for every single version of your application you distribute? Also, you'd never actually get any patch information back to put into the source, except maybe in binary... In addition to this, when some programmers take a quick and dirty approach to things to meet deadlines (which are sometimes more important than clean code) how will the program know about your "// DIRTY HACK. WILL FIX LATER, BUT THIS IS NEEDED FOR THE DEMO. FUNCTION X() WILL WORK AS EXPECTED WITH THE TEST DATA" comment in code? Will it try to correct the binary, producing unexpected results?