is she was ordered to give up her email to investigators. She gave them some of the mail and deleted the rest.

Whether we'd actually done anything wrong or not, if one of us little people had pulled such a stunt we'd be rotting in jail awaiting trial for destroying evidence, not running for president.

Some 30 years ago I worked for a company where discussing salary info with co-workers was cause for dismissal. Problem was, they had a boatload of titles, each title had maybe a 5k range in salary. The titles and salaries with each said title was easily available.

The problem? Everyone had their title printed on the business cards, and the company directory listed everyone's title. So I didn't need to ask how much you made. You were a widget master 3, therefor you made from 20-25k.

As all my recent encounters have been of the 127.0.0.1 variety, if they take that away I'm in trouble.

CSB time. I went to a community college the first 2 years it was open (Cuyamaca college, San Diego county if you're in the area). In my first semester computer class the instructor took us on a field trip, on a Saturday. There were 3-4 of us who agreed to go, we met on campus. Got in teach's pickup, he drove us to the midway district, into an industrial park, and into an alley going behind a bunch of buildings. There we saw a PDP-8 sitting by a door. Turns out the PDP-8 belonged to my instructor's old company and they were donating it to the school. Our "field trip" was providing muscle to get the thing into the pickup truck, back to school, then into the computer lab.

Used that PDP-8 for the next 2 years, it was the only computer they had.

/CSB

There's a certain level of stupidity you just can't deal with. Don't bother trying.

Dafuq you talking about? Why would the gun need to be aerodynamically sound? Do you thing a GoPro is aerodynamically sound?

Are you implying the bullet would start tumbling right out of the barrel? Why would it do that? The bullet would be spinning nicely, it will go wherever the barrel was pointed when it left the muzzle. Or are you implying the gun would start tumbling right out of the, um, huh. That makes no sense either.

If you don't know jack about a subject then have the decency to STFU, not spout nonsense.

AM quality is horrendous, and FM isn't as good as the average MP3 file. So, Neil, you gonna make radio quit playing your songs?

So, "you vote for my pork and I'll vote for yours" is compromise. This is why the system fails. Everybody is concerned with bringing the money home, and not concerned past their own political future.

I'll be 72 in 2030 with no kids to worry about. Should I care if Earth turns into an ice cube that my cremation will do little to help?

Yeah, this is the scariest part of the story. No way can you trust the "authorities" do Do The Right Thing nowdays.

Lillian could write a letter and send a fax. We bought a fax for her assisted living home, and one for our house. She died at, I think, 96, in '07. But for the 3 years she was in that assisted living home my ex talked to her mom daily over that fax connection.

About a year after she died I tried to craigslist the 2 fax machines, no joy. I gave them to goodwill and took a nice tax deduction. I can admit to that because the statue of limitations has passed :)

Back in late '07/early '08 I bought an iPod. Dumped it about 6 month later because I could not get it to organize my music by album. An example of the problem is a soundtrack: 1 album with several different artists. iTunes insisted on grouping songs by artist and wouldn't let me group them by album.

It's been a while and they may have fixed this, but I have no intention of every tying myself to iTunes ever again.

This article has been up for over 3 hours, yet nobody knows yet WTF Worldwide Telescope is.

Sad state of affairs for a summary and an article.

Signed up for UVerse, got it installed a couple weeks ago. 2 surprises. First, I got a "welcome to ATT UVerse" email that contained my account password in cleartext. Not cool UVerse.

Then I logged into my router at 192.168.1.254. There on the welcome page was my wifi password for all the world to see.

It's turning out the UVerse DVR is a steaming pile, at this point I can't really recommend it.

They're MP3 format but yeah, I still listen to CDs. I prefer whole albums over random songs.

/ Now playing: Amplifier: The Octopus // Next up: Tribute to Ronnie James Dio