Do not confuse my statement. I never said the IP is a person. I said banning it affects multiple people including innocent bystanders. A crowd is not a person. Do we bomb a crowd because a few are bad actors?

We should always err on the side of least effect on innocent people, preferably no effect.

A person made the edits. However,if you ban the IP or IP range, then you ban innocent bystanders. This is unacceptable. Period.

That IP had been vandalizing for years. That IP is not a person. Period.

Now that it is mentioned here, slashdot can be cited as the reference for his culinary proclivities. Problem solved. Put the edit back with a citation.

I am no MS fanboi. I did not RFTA. However, windows 9 is already supposed to ship with both touch and classic interfaces.The default will be chosen by device type but presumably it will be changable. The big complaint here is WinRT - which is ARM not Intel.

I would hope this unification means that there will be suffice emulation built into windows that it will pick the kernel/libs/drivers required by the CPU arch, and userland apps can run in emulation (even if slowly) if they are compiled for the wrong proc. This would be a unified windows, that allows x86 and 64 bit apps run on ARM and vice versa (although the other direction is likely not as useful). And have a usable interface. This may actually be a killer OS. It is the next version after a bad one!

Read: http://www.ars-nova.com/Theory...

Case in point, from a customer last week. Legit local radio, click steaming button. Stream controls in pop up from 3rd party. Stream is broken, stars then stops. Ad in same window, from ad choices, plain white misleading ad, "you need to update your windows media player 11". What do people do? Oh I need to update. Boom adware or worse. There need to be laws and real penalties for this, it does real damag.

Okay. You have a full 2-liter soda bottle. You drop it from hip height to the floor. The shock releases dissolved gas, increasing the pressure in the bottle. Now pick it up and drop it again. And again.

At some point the bottle will fail and the soda will erupt.

Can you say on which drop? Can you say how it will fail (split seam, pinhole rupture that expands, cap failure?)

No? But you can say that it likely will if the behavior continues.

Lets take another example, say HDD failure. Any HDD will fail, at some point. Is it head failure? Bearing failure? Temperature damage to the media? You do not know, but you can say it WILL fail.

So, nice troll attempt, but it falls flat.

You took my crappy little joke and made it into a thing of glory. Bravo!

Lazy bum.

# wget popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
# tar xvf popcorn-6.2.1.tgz
# cd popcorn-6.2.1
# ./configure --libs="-lbutter -lsalt"
# make
# make -install

Please forgive errors, I don't eat popcorn anymore so my popping skills are rusty, but still better than that microwave apt-get popcorn.

The bottom line is that we know far more about Uranus than Pluto. Even given the wealth of knowledge and enjoyment Uranus has given generations of scientists and philosophers, the decision was made to explore strange (no not new worlds, just strange.) I think in part this is due to the fact that Uranus is massive and gassy, but what do I know?

You should always have a competent tech on hand for maintenance tasks. Period. If you do not, Murphy will bite you, and then, instead of having it back up by peak hours you are scrambling and looking dumb. In your current scenario, say the patch unexpectedly breaks another critical function of the server. It happens, if you have been in IT any time you have seen it happen. Bite the bullet and have a tech on hand to roll back the patch. Give them time off at another point, or pay them extra for night hours, but thems the breaks when dealing with critical services.

Not quite.. this is not everyone polluting. I think the meme you are looking for is "First world problems..."

That's because elec vehicles do not have to comply with the OBD spec that gas vehicles do. Same is true of the device at www.automatic.com

Do you want to become pregnant because someone hacked your hormone implant?

I do not see this ending well.