Hitman: Blood Money had Agent 47 infiltrating the White House and assassinating the Vice President. But then, nearly all of the targets in the HItman games are villainous in character. You could try to the guards of the White House (I assume they are soldiers), but it's tougher in this mission to come out alive doing so.

Shitty context menu with 'Rename' just on top of 'Delete'. 'Delete' bypasses Trash. Guess which I clicked.

(Emphasis mine.) That's worth a chuckle, at least.

Partially correct. The responsibilities in this case are passed on to the the legal guardian(s).

That quote reminded me of Michael Crichton's Airframe. Was he basing it on that crash?

When did you last test it? Most of my files open well enough. I'm on 25.0

While not a native speaker (mine is Malayalam, which has plenty of words originating in Sanskrit), I have heard yaan being used in both senses - journey and vehicle.

The article itself has only one link, so it's not a click farm. But it is depressingly low on facts.

I thought the budget was initially $165 million and then they overspent by $500m?

Proxy support! The one thing Uplay has over Steam or Origin that I'd like Steam to have.

No, it's the contrapositive of the more famous saying.

That's about 325 kmph. The Bugatti Veyron has a top speed of over 406 kmph. What's so special about this Ferrari?

lsb_release -c | cut -f2

I first read "Achilles, the tortoise, ..." as meaning "a tortoise called Achilles" and thought of a book called My Family and Other Animals. Then I remembered Zeno. Sill didn't get the Secretariat reference.

From the late 90s onwards, webmail *is* email. I hadn't even heard of the term until I college, when I noticed that my institute's webmail site was called webmail. Initially I thought it was a mistake or a lame attempt at branding, but later on I understood the difference.