No, no they didn't.

To be fair, a washing machine can already do this. You just have to forget to take the key out of your pocket when you do laundry.

Do you have any idea how much power a can opener or (especially) a coffee maker can require under load?

Don't worry - all the bugs got worked out in the first four prototypes. The fifth one is golden!

Funny thing is, I don't actually remember why - other than there was some feature that wasn't available in the default build back then (Keychain integration, perhaps?)

Anyway, there were a number of libraries and other packages that had to be added to the system in order for the build process to succeed... but I don't remember it being all that difficult to do. Time consuming, yes - but not difficult.

When discussing these sorts of treaties, it's important to make note of the differing legal systems that exist in the countries involved.

If the U.S. had signed and ratified Kyoto, it would've had the force of U.S. law. The government could've been sued and forced to meet the requirements.

Compare this to some other countries that did sign Kyoto - Canada, for instance. Canada didn't even come close to meeting the stated targets. So, a year or two before the deadline they simply withdrew from the pact - not something that would've been an option for the U.S.

Same thing with most European countries. Some met or exceeded their targets, while others did not. But there were no penalties applied to the countries that did not succeed.

OP failed to mention that, to make the jump possible, Mr. Putin first plans to throw Mir back into orbit.

That would only work if he was employed by Western Digital or Maxtor.

At least for me it is.

I was perfectly happy with the old iPhone 3GS screen size (3.5"), for a phone - you can easily reach everything with your thumb, and texting is a breeze. Then, for a tablet, I think the 8" is just about perfect... but that means I have two devices. Most of the time that's not a problem, but an iPad Mini can only fit in some of my cargo pants pockets and not others.

So now I'm wondering - do I want to go to a ginormous phone, and just forgo the tablet altogether? When I've played with friends' big Android phones, they seem too big for a phone while being smaller than optimal for things like web browsing. BUT carrying only one "good enough" device has a definite appeal. So the decision is, is it enough of an advantage for me to willingly compromise on the size equation at both ends of the spectrum?

So it's a complicated question - and a potentially expensive experiment.

On Slashdot, an alternative joke might've made the OP's intent clearer:

"So it's trying to be Diaspora without the popularity?"

It's mildly funny that Server 2003 doesn't have this bug, and also was the last Windows Server that still used some Unix/BSD code.

(No, I'm not claiming a causal relationship...)

That's a straw man. I send physical objects several times a year. When I do, I use UPS or FedEx because the Postal Service sucks at it. My expectation that the USPS will die does not mean package delivery has to die with it.

USPS's bread and butter has historically always been letters and bills. Nowadays that is rapidly drying up, so their bread and butter has become delivering advertisements to our houses. We don't really need to maintain a government funded agency for advertisement delivery.

I'm not sure why we should invest much time moving "stamps" into the digital age. Does anyone expect the Post Office to even exist, ten years from now?

No one sends physical letters anymore. Almost all of my bills can come electronically, directly to my bank. Doctors offices and medical clinics seem to be one of the few holdouts... and even they seem to be moving online now.

He might need that one week per month - just to recover.

Nah, just send one guy. He can do all the heavy lifting; plus he'll be the happiest guy in the solar system.