else it might have been teenage me shooting off my home-made rockets.

/ yep, I'd be in gitmo nowdays for half the crap I did as a teen

True dat. I was in Jr High (grades 7-9) in the 70s and I spent a lot of time in chemistry class pushing mercury droplets around with my finger.

Don't care how many celebrities got their nude selfies exposed, nor various websites' responses, nor that at least 1 celebretard was underage when she took her pix.

If the person who coined 'fappening' comes to San Diego and drops me a line, you get 1 free beer.

Anything is better than the way I was taught history. In high school it was nothing but names and dates. No context, no motivation, nothing.

About 30 years ago there was a show called Our World on TV. It gave context, explained motivations, and in general made history pretty damned interesting. Too bad the show only lasted 1 season.

Then I had a college history class. Yep, back to names and dates and not much else.

History can be interesting, the way it's taught in school is a sham.

I ride my bike a lot. Unless I'm doing 65 on the freeway, how do they know I'm driving to the grocery store instead of riding my bike? The route is flat and through a residential area, I average 20 MPH there and back in a 25 MPH zone.

True dat. The solution is that for every bugfix submitted there is also an automated test to verify it stays fixed.

Automated test suites are not static. They should grow as the project matures and users/developers gain experience with it.

In the late 80s and early 90s I was involved in 2 projects run under MIL SPEC 2167, which was supposed to ensure product quality. Both were epic disasters. IMHO, 2167 pretty much guaranteed mediocre at best software, taking 3x longer to do, at a cost at least 6x of non-2167

This sounds like the 21st century version of 2167.

I would be very surprised if the entire archive isn't on TPB by now.

I rode a motorcycle for 2 years. I finally gave up on it when I realized that it wasn't that motorists didn't see me, rather they saw me and actively wanted to kill me.

First, about half of what I buy on Amazon are gifts that I myself would not have any interest in owning. Second, I haven't ordered anything off Amazon since they started charging sales tax (fark CA and it's high taxes). Too many other online sources to use without letting the spendthrifts in Sacramento squeeze me dry.

Without their knowledge? You and your gf (or bf) are getting busy in the back yard and you see a drone. That drone can now film away as you know about it.

Or terrorists, whichever works better for this particular feel-good do-nothing PoS legislation.

I've used a lot of languages in the last 35 years, I've only actively hated 1. That would be Javascript. I find it amazing you can test your code for weeks, but as soon as you let someone else run it everything breaks in mysterious ways because they have a different environment than you do.

Javascript needs to die, and I'll find another job before I waste any more time programming this POS "language".

Whoodathunk we'd get caught. Our bad. kthxbye

This. Last year I finally bought a new laptop not because Microsoft EOL'd XP, but my hardware was dying. Went with 8.1, once I de-Metrod it I quite like it.

Win 8.1 is a solid OS. Metro is a steaming turd.