Well obviously my Slashdot account must've been hacked or something...

If you're doing the Wave, you deserve to get stuffed back in that locker. Or worse.

As far as Deflate Gate goes, in the end it won't matter. The Hawks are going to walk all over the Pats. The only real question is whether they'll hit any of the numbers I drew in our office pool.

Hofstadter isn't THAT heavy...

I have been quite puzzled regarding some of the insulting names I've been seeing on my junk mail.

I have read people's complaints about this, and I know it's happening and is very vexing. But I haven't had any trouble with wi-fi on my Macs - either at home (a couple MacBook Pros and several iDevices, connecting to an Airport Extreme base) or at work (iDevices connecting to whatever enterprise gear U of Wash. has - well, except that UW's wifi is universally oversubscribed). And over the past decade or so, I've been much happier with OS X's wifi performance than I ever was with XP's.

I would assume people have investigated whether there's some commonality between the complaints and the base station chipsets / manufacturers involved... (yeah, yeah, I know - RTFA)

This reminds me of a scene from an old Andy Griffith Show episode that, for no good reason, has been relegated to long-term storage in my brain.

Andy and Barney are checking into a hotel somewhere for a cop convention. The receptionist says "Thank you Mr. Taylor. Thank you, Mr. Fife... oh, excuse me, DOCTOR Fife!"

Andy incredulously looks at the sign-in book and notes that Barney has appended an "M.D." to his name - after which Barney sheepishly explains it stands for "Mayberry Deputy".

(okay, in all likelihood I'm the only person here who thinks that's funny...)

It's obvious they also stole some vowels from the poor spokesperson.

Hopefully this will make it a lot easier for those Nigerian princes and military widows to transfer those millions of dollars to me. I keep giving them my bank account info, but I'm still waiting.

I totally agree - the writers (or producers) way overcompensated when it came to Janeway. It wasn't enough she was a female captain - she had to be MacGyver on steroids.

Funny thing is... I think Kate Mulgrew did a pretty good job, given the role she was handed.

Bah. The X-Files was for people who couldn't handle Twin Peaks.

I thought they were wiping the Chromebook's internal drive, then reinstalling with their preferred Linux variant.

If you tune into the stream, and the background music turns out to be Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction... head straight to your fallout shelters forthwith.

So you're not continuously wasting time reinventing the wheel.

And of that "just 9%"... how much was activity on other Google properties where you have to jump through hoops NOT to have it cross-posted to Google+?

I know they mentioned YouTube comments, but this was also an issue with YouTube videos. If you posted one on your channel, you had to take steps for it not to be crossposted to your Google+ page. And, of course, most people who post on YouTube were semi-forced to create a Google+ page simply to remove some artificial constraints Google added with the goal of attempting to force Google+ adoption.

Not to mention that we don't get to mod stories... and we should.