OK, somebody fill me in, here...

3,000 "lakes" on an ice shelf that they state was 2700km^2?

That's a little over a thousand square miles. That's about the land area of Cook County, Illinois, where Chicago is.

3,000 "lakes?" Lolwut? You mean "ponds?" Perhaps "puddles?"

Somebody convince me that I should be runnin' to the hills, because I'm just not feelin' it, here...

That's the FIRST thing to do!!!!

Is it 3D, too?

You knuckleheads couldn't resist, could you? Perfectly good discussion of "when do you, as an IT person, have a moral and possibly legal obligation to intercede when unethical shenanigans goes on with your area of expertise," and you turn it the Twitter feed on Nancy Grace about an unremarkable trial in some shithole in Florida.

I remember when /. wasn't /b/

They should have never let you AOLusers on the real internet, just kept you in the box pink dialup sandbox.

Was it Windows Vista? My guess is the need to wipe that crap off there was entirely legitimate.

If Microsoft built houses, a blown light bulb would require you to bulldoze the house and rebuild it. Sure hope you were able to back up your furniture and appliances.

And EVERY SINGLE AGENCY at every level of government that's covered by a public records law is also covered by provisions of that law that recognize that they aren't about to keep every damn thing that has ever been stored on it. Go read up on NARA and federal records-retention regulations... every agency of every government that is covered by a public records law has some means to account for legitimate needs to wipe computers. Every single one.

...doubtful.

Yeah, F-UEFI.

My newest MBP is a 2007. It replaced a 2004. That replaced a 2002 iMac 1Ghz. If I need one faster than this, it'll probably be a VMWare image of OSX on a dirt-cheap Intel clone.

Oh, wait, already got one of them, and it XBenches 2.6X faster than the 2007MBP.

I think that thing could host a kick-ass DOOM session!

At least in the USA, then you get nailed for anywhere from 10-40% surcharges for "business-class service" which basically means you pay $400 a year for fixed IP and the "privilege" of running a server on your own broadband line."

My ISP tries to explain the ridiculous cost boost on "well, you get 'priority' on service calls. You have 10 email addresses and 10MB of free web space on our server!"

I shut them up one time:

I've been on "the internet" longer than you've existed as a company. Even at 2am, nobody has ever asked me if I was a business customer. And if I'm running my own server, whadduigivefuck about your "free email addresses and webspace?" I HAVE A SERVER.

#FAIL

WAIT.... "deleted?"

As in, "spilled the seed on the ground?"

I can understand if things maybe don't get delivered for a few hours, or maybe a few got munged up somewhere during the repairs, but to blissfully direct the firehose into the abyss that is /dev/null...

Who pays for that?

Oh, wait. Canadians are rather accepting of abuse on the part of their phone/cable/broadband suppliers, and the Tories back up the big businesses.

"Unacceptable! Unacceptable! Mepps, mepps!"

Facebook actually thinks these are one billion distinct humanoids? Zuck is stoopider than his investors look. As anyone who ever posted a signup sheet in a college dorm for IM softball can attest, at least a third of people who sign up for anything, anywhere, ever, are fake.

Sorry, this was my post, forgot to login. I hate when that happens.

The chest freezer with frozen 2L bottles works very well. (a) they have tremendous thermal mass and (b) even when they thaw, you can drink the water. Used this trick for many years. They also don't rupture even if you fill them a touch too high, unlike gallon milk jugs.

I own an 1840 stone house and barn built into the side of the Blue Ridge. Today, it was 99 degrees outside.

In the barn, it was 73.

Last winter, it was 0 outside. In the barn, 41.

They had this stuff figured out before the Millard Fillmore administration: don't build your house in the middle of a cornfield that still wants to be a cornfield.

Oh, and please quit making new humans. We've already got more than enough.

I know there's some reason people continue to use Facebook. I just have a hard time imagining what it is.