"Why did Microsoft take away the start menu in Windows 8? Metro is worse than bat shit."

It's a common refrain to say that nobody benefits from class action suits except the lawyers. While that may be true for the class litigants themselves it is entirely untrue for the public at large. The purpose of large punitive rewards is to penalize corporate misbehavior and in turn incentivize good behavior. By that measure we all benefit from these suits.

Maybe Linus isn't cursing at the developers with enough frequency or intensity?

Bring back the old-style Thinkpad keyboards and all will be forgiven.

In twelve easy steps!

Yet I want you to give me a copy of the key and trust that it wont fall into the wrong hands or be used illegally against me. See how stupid that sounds Obama?

And so on? Such recursion might cause the patent office to explode.

There will be a surge and resulting peak in demand for their expensive cars and then demand will fall off a cliff and the company will eventually disappear. Maybe then we'll finally stop seeing the endless supply of pump and dump stock articles that appear on /., esp positive-spin articles like this one that magically appear whenever there is negative news about the company.

90% of the time is spent executing 10% of the code. But when something goes wrong you want that other 90% of the code to be there so that you don't l lose 100% of your work :)

From the aritcle:

"One investor said she spent HK$1.3 million in swap options for the virtual currency last September. She said salespersons had told her she would recoup her investment in four months and make around 200-300 percent profit in one year."

How does someone this stupid get hold of that much money?

Couldn't resist :)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The study also revealed that female-run companies experience a recurring dip in relative performance that happens once per month with a duration of approximately 3-5 days. Researchers are actively working on finding the source of this blip in the data.

http://www.dailydot.com/politi...

By offering this simple advice for a long and healthy life: Do everything in moderation. Too little or too much of anything will kill you.