G+ invites have been out for what, like a week? And already FB is playing the me too! feature creep game with Google. Could this actually finally be the beginning of the end of the reign of Zuck?

Probably not. They're probably just trying to kick some dirt into EA's eyes in order to add insult to injury over the fact that Origin doesn't even work.

Is it really that hard to test and insure that your custom 404 error page is actually throwing a 404 error message, and it isn't just a soft 404 that actually throws a 200 OK message? There are far too many sites with custom 404 pages that don't check this, and it makes script writing needlessly difficult.

I created an all in one cure for cancer, hiv, and erectile dysfunction according to some pieces of paper I scribbled crayon onto.

Literally the same day as I find a beautiful 1960s era plug-in wall clock in a supply closet at work...one of the really nice ones with military time pained in red numerals and everything.

• Incessent narcissism 24 hours a day 7 days a week
• Data protection that is circumvented by the highest bidder
• Privacy policies that change with the wind
• Employers using the data to keep track of their peyons^Hemployees between 5 PM and 9 AM
• Siphoning of data for the creation of consumer profiles by any third party company with an internet connection
• Non-stop astroturfing

Nope. Nothing to do with any of those.

Although Facebook chat uses what could roughly-be-described-on-a-foggy-day-during-the-hour-your-glasses-are-at-lenscrafters as XMPP, their implementation is convoluted and contains proprietary elements to the point where native XMPP clients are not able to properly use it, despite Facebook's claims on the contrary.

We're losing customers to Newegg! We need to stop price gouging our repair services! We need to hire actually knowledgeable and well trained sales representatives! We need to carry a better selection of components that aren't grossly overpriced! We need to .... ah screw it too much overhead let's just sue them over use of the word geek.

So, converting a PostgreSQL backend to MSSQL? I predict the suicide rate for DBAs is about to skyrocket.

Oh look at you, you can rephrase people's words about as well as a political advertisement. However, you miss one pretty critical aspect in your argument.

Your work computer that sits on the desk that belongs to your employer that sits in the office that your employer pays rent on is probably the property of...your employer, wow how 'bout that? It's his property, and you are merely a user on it for 8 hours a day. Why is he not in his right to protect his property from someone who may not be as technically competent in keeping the computer compliant with the company's network usage policies?

Meanwhile, I gave money that was mine to a man in a cheap suit, and he gave me a car and a little piece of paper that represents the title to the car, therefore the car is my property. Why do I have to lose my warranty, which is a promise from the seller of the car that the property he sold me is free of defects and poor craftsmanship, just because I would like to opt to handle the routine maintenance of my property by myself, rather than give the cheap suit man more of my money for the same exact if not poorer quality of maintenance?

Customize your own car? Blasphemy! Due to being a consumer, you are assumed to be an idiot and completely technically incompetent; it's a miracle you can even figure out how to work the automatic transmission. You can't even change your own oil without voiding your warranty these days.

I learned the history of Spongebob Squarepants a couple of days ago. If I remember it correctly, Stephen Hillenberg was a marine biologist who also had a part time job working in an animation studio, and his boss was Joe Murray. He worked in Murray's animation studio during the period of the early 1990s when Murray's main project was Rocko's Modern Life. When Murray stopped doing animation after 1995 due to some serious marital issues (his wife eventually killed herself and he went on a 10 year hiatus from animation before creating Camp Lazlo), Hillenberg came up with the idea for Spongebob, and shortly thereafter made a pilot for Viacom.

So basically, Spongebob is the alter ego to Rocko Wallaby.

That's the way it should be, and that's definitely the way it is at my job. Every good sysadmin knows that the biggest idiot in the whole system is the user.

If you are allowing common users to install their own software, you are doing it wrong.

"If you plan to shoplift, please let us know. Thanks"

Philadelphia Police: Sir, we caught this man trying to break into your house at approximately 1:30 this afternoon after receiving an urgent notification from Comcast.

Homeowner: Who is he?

Philadelphia Police: He claims he is from "Verizon" and that he was here to "install FiOS", whatever that means.