I did an experiment with NT 3.51 once. It could boot with as little as 12MB of RAM. You couldn't really use it, but it would boot up. It was an incredibly good OS.

I'm glad to see someone besides me on /, isn't terrified of Facebook.

I use it and I think it's relatively harmless as long as you understand, as Rasperin says, it's a loud speaker. I expect everything I post on FB will be available to everyone, everywhere, forever. I long ago, many years before Facebook was a thing, figured out that if I never posted anything online I wouldn't want my sainted mother to see, I'd never have anything to worry about*. I speak my mind freely, but I would have no problem if my mother, my wife, my boss, my kids or my pastor were to see anything I've posted.

* Now, of course, that doesn't mean some day in the near future agents of the Ministry of Love won't show up at my door to conduct me to a re-education camp for my political views, but at least I know my mother won't be ashamed of me.

Now I don't want to be accused of defending the NSA, but they are not exactly the most transparent organization in the world. Just as with the FBI, CIA and DHS, we can point to their obvious screw-ups and overreaches but I for one believe that the fact that we are not being nickel-and-dimed on the terrorist front is due in part to their work.

I mean, they have the records of 8 scrillion phone calls and access to everyone's hard drives. One would hope that they are actually able to do something with all that.

I'm going to go out on a limb and hypothesize that you are not Jewish.

Iran's only way out of it is to drop the nuclear program and stop being assholes.

Unless their plan is to nuke everyone and let Allah sort it out. You can't discount the idea that the Muslim extremists _want_ to see the world burn. Does the majority of the country want this? I seriously doubt that, but the mullahs sure do.

I've like to visit your planet some day. It seems like very interesting place, and much different from mine.

Given the way the hard-core Muslims talk, I would think that their plan (i.e., Iran) is to get the nukes, take out Tel Aviv, New York, Washington, whatever, and sit back and let Allah sort it out. It's kind of built in to their religion.

That said, the people of Iran as a whole are reasonable and just looking to live their own lives, just like us, and if there was enough of a popular uprising, supported by the West, maybe Iran's mullahs could be fettered and the country be allowed to rejoin the modern world. If only... oh, wait, that happened a few years ago and we sat on our hands. Oh, well.

Agreed. We are not the country we were 50-70 years ago. Not even close.

We might be again, but it will take some real pain and hardship before we collectively choose to sack up.

I've played about 7 variants of Munchkin with my kids over the years and we agree that Adventure Time is one of the best, if not the best. It adds a lot of flavor to the game, and I'm not just talking about the artwork and flavor text from the show, but in that it adds some clever game mechanics with some of the cards that I haven't seen in other versions of Munchkin.

The guys at MS are professional engineers--they may have different philosophies or coding styles or project priorities than you do, but they're not slowing things down in order to make you buy the next product. You're much more likely to run into that with a local guy or a disreputable company.

This is the funniest thing I've read all day.

Of course the engineers are professionals. Management, on the other hand, often aren't. Microsoft's management is legendary for its willingness to be evil, even to itself.

We all know he will die one day. The question is whether he will die before or after the Linux kernel becomes self-aware and can maintain itself.

Testing won't fix bad design, but it might give you a handle on how bad the problem is.

Hey, where's the apps guy when you need him? Her?

Can't get out of the bathroom. His phone died.

That worked great for me until I hit a corner. So I got another block of wood. I was able to replace all the molding in my house, but I don't know what to do with all those blocks of wood. Perhaps there's a Life Hack for that...

Are we sure Dice hasn't acquired the Mozilla Foundation?