Better yet would be if the vendors just took care of it, of course, but given their lack of motivation and alacrity

Perhaps the first step could be to hack the execs' phones and make them send text messages out to all the employees telling them that this patch needs to be pushed ASAP.

Is that like the login form AT&T used for a while to pretend it was all mobile-6-point-oh-like where the password field was a plain text box with a script that turned the letters you typed into dots after you type the next letter?

There's a reason that all the major browsers don't autofill forms until you tell it to.

I'm pretty fucked if anyone wants to pwn my Sprint HTC Evo 4G.

At this point, HL3 (or even just "HL2 episode 3") is going to become Valve's Daikatana or Duke Nukem Forever. Just following on from the end of Hl2e2 is going to be a huge hurdle (their writer must be at least this good in order to get on this ride) never mind whatever Source engine technology they want to show off.

I think that Newell sees only two possibilities: 1) they never make the game or 2) they make the game and everyone hates it.

Single 39.6% tax threshold: $41320
Married 39.6% tax threshold: $46850

In order for this to be a tax ADVANTAGE for two earners, the 39.6% threshold would have to be at least $82640. This is actually a penalty, since if both spouses make $40k, before they married their taxes each would have been below 39.6%, now that they're married, nearly all of the second spouse's income is taxed at the higher rate.

Especially the % for "things dropped into the body". How often do human surgeons drop something in the body? My guess is that the issue in the robot case, the surgery has to be paused while a human scrubs in to fish the object out.

You also get tax breaks for the marriage thing

Standard deduction, single: $6300
Standard deduction, married filing jointly: $12600

The only tax break you get is if your wife is a stay-at-home mom where you can double your tax deduction. Of course, then she runs the risk of losing all her credits etc from having no income.

if you have kids, you get those breaks too

You get those breaks as a single parent too.

After being in "Offline" mode all day yesterday, who knows what's going on today.

I expect that what's happening is that Dice has given slashdot a budget of $0 and expects it to crawl into a corner and die on its own.

Come on, folks, let's cheer with the AC "We're number one better than China! We're number one better than China!"

it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Remember that next time you talk to a cop and they don't feel you were "concerned" enough about the situation and use that fact against you in a court of law: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08...

The retroactive immunity came much later.

nothing you can't have in perl today, with a relational database, and a table or two to track relationships between objects.

Sure, and there have been written entire books and essays and algorithms on how to get your relational database to store and return a hierarchy. It reminds me of those highschool programming challenges where you implement a binary tree in a single array because why the fuck not?

But instead, it's a whole new opportunity to create problems!

Every language invented in the 60's was a whole new opportunity to create problems. The problem now is continuing to use it without fixing the problems. Even PHP has made improvements to the language.

Nope, right on time and everything starts freezing again.

because the choice is between Government enslavement and anarchy.

You seem to believe the choice is between ignoring laws because it suits you and ignoring laws because it suits me. The third option, which respects the rule of law: working within the framework of government to change the laws.

As you pick and choose what laws you think you should bother to follow, keep in mind that whatever moral high ground you claim to possess that gives you this power will also be claimed by others.

Disk Defragmenter service is set to manual. I've disabled the SuperFetch service, we'll see what happens tomorrow.