"What's a 'meter'?"

If they are still collecting on 1.3 of the 26, then maybe it's a sample group of phones, for collecting service quality stats. 1.3MM/26MM happens to be exactly 5%. That's a nice round number.

When I ride the T or commuter rail, the bottleneck is at the doors to get in the cars. One small door on either end of the car, with people competing to get on and to get off. *My* brilliant idea is to have the entire side wall of the car roll up like a garage door so that people can board and detrain en masse. The problem is with the placement of the seats.

Reading things like "she was lost" and "she's finally sent a weak signal" and stuff like that make me sad and want to send a rescue mission to save this hunk of metal and hydrazine flying through space.

I had to see it to believe it! I had no idea that 6 was an odd number. Well, back to square-one.

It's worth a couple hundred for me to hang out in the terminal and watch commercial space flights landing and taking off as nonchalantly as though it were Logan (airport, that is). Even if I can't go up, it would still feel good to watch the activity man's nascent commercial space adventures.

I posit that it's more tempting to steal the software you need and are accustomed to, more than it is tempting to move to foss alternatives.

I just tried to import my photos from FB to G+ and got a message from startgoogleplus saying, "Facebook isn't responding to requests from startgoogleplus.com". Looks like they put the kibosh on it in near record time.

Sign up for a Yahoo! email account. You can import FB contacts natively through Yahoo. Then import your Yahoo contacts from your Gmail accounts.

Hm. Can you make the inside of the case a positive pressure area by blowing room air into the case through the front?

How often do you have to install Ubuntu?

Standards are like toothbrushes: everyone agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours.

I use HTML in email from time to time. I have scripts that generate small business reports (sales, basically) and use HTML to tabulate them, and then send that report in HTML form. The audience is business people, so they don't want a "table" made with monospace-fonts, and it would be overkill to attach a CSV or something like that. Ideally I would have a general purpose webserver where I could have my report hosted (or generated on demand), and just tell people "Look here when you're interested", rather than spamming them. But I'm not expecting a miracle! So anyway, as a /.er I am of the "plain text email only please" mindset, but I'm in the minority in my organisation and must adapt.

Or more like, you gave the car and keys to the valet, and they left the keys in the car while they dozed at their post. Your car (or your GPS) was stolen.