The jacket did not belong to the kid, it belonged to the father. That was in TFA though, so I don't hold it against you!

Whoosh!

What? 9000! That's Impossible!!!

Sure, it might be a fun and cool thing to do as an 8 year old (Or any age, really), but it isn't like we need to see it once a month on Slashdot.

How many times are we going to see the "Camera put in styrofoam box and floated up with a weather balloon" story. Is this one special because they threw an iPhone into the box too?

In my case, and the case of every engineer-in-progress at my university, we get somewhere between 2-8 licenses for Windows 7 Pro, depending on the number of classes in different Engineering departments. You see, each department has an MSDNAA set-up. What this means, is that anyone who 'wants' Windows 7, has no problem getting access to a key for it. Almost every Windows-running laptop has 7 on it. This ability to be able to GET Win 7 has caused a large population to upgrade, just because they 'wanted' it.

Same. I think in the end though, I bought around 25 of them. Reselling the set parted out (wiimote, and game individually) netted a nice profit...

It's country land, and it's a huge lot. I didn't know it existed until he told me. It's quite a ways back from the road, behind a lot of trees. Not visible from their house at all. Besides, if you are already pumping poo for a business, how bad can a pond of it really be?

Up near my cottage, the local septic tank sucker has a septic pond where he dumps the sucker trucks, mushes it around and whatnot, getting the not-good-stuff out, then pumps it out into a sprayer truck. He sprays local farm fields. I'm sure it doubles his money. People pay him to take their poo away, then he gets payed to spray it all over someone elses field.

Is this supposed to be posthumous?

Generally correct, yes. My opinion was based on these PowerMat products that I see often enough in weekly flyers

I believe the idea is that you have one charger plate that you would always leave plugged in, and it works for all of your devices that have a power receiver plugged in (Or built in, I suppose). You wouldn't have to "hunt around for the induction charger plate", since you would have one between all of your devices. It would be like a bowl for your keys at the door - When you come in, you can just chuck your stuff onto the charger plate, and hey presto, it's charged next time you grab it. No fiddly wires to plug or unplug when you come in.

Nope, but now I can go and turn off error reporting! Hadn't realized it was just a service...

People actually hit the 'send' button? I always hit 'don't send', even if it is a Microsoft product. The "solutions" they give are almost always generic enough to be completely useless. It's not worth the time to look at them.