What does that sentence even mean?

Exactly right. Palm in the 1990s was pioneering, but they stumbled once smartphones came along. Not sure why, really - I mean, everyone could see that manufacturers would put more and more stuff on phones and eventually everything a Palm Pilot could do, a phone would one day be able to do. But Palm was a one trick pony that didn't adapt (or at least, didn't adapt fast enough).

Um, no. He's a 27-year-old who sweats so much when asked a mild non-softball question on TV that he has to wipe the perspiration off his head and take off his jacket.. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were mature adults when they were 27 (1982). Zuckerberg is a child.

Because, of course, it's impossible to create a Slashdot name like that unless the creator is a lawyer.

How is life as a neo-medieval toilet, btw?

In their defense, they are in many datacenters. Also, I wouldn't say Linode is a "cheap VPS provider" - they're one of the pricier ones, particularly if you look at the bandwidth.

BuyVM is a budget provider, and are labeled so on my page in the Budget section. It's not that LEBs are bad, it's just that someone who's never used a VPS before could walk onto LEB/LET and pick a provider and many providers there are not good. If someone is going to use a LEB, they should go into it eyes open.

You should be asking on WHT, which is the best-known forum for discussing web hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers.

I would echo the linode suggestion, particularly if it's the first VPS you've ever used. However, they are not KVM. If you want KVM, try 6sync. Another fine choice is BuyVM, though you have to wait until they have stock, which is a minor media event.

I would ignore the suggestions to look at lowendbox, unless you are willing to trade price for stability (which is not always a bad tradeoff, just be sure to do it consciously)

That is untrue. I work for a large public company (Fortune 500) and our email retention is 90 days. After that, stuff is purged. Backup retention for email is also 90 days. The goal is that if we're sued, we only have 90 days' worth of email to be discovered.

Yes, there are plenty of loopholes - e.g., if I print an email and stick it in a filing cabinet.

I don't believe there is any rule that says "public companies must keep email for X days". However, some industries have regulations - I'm sure our retention would be different if my company was in the legal, financial, etc. industries.

Rather, it's the SNAP reactor buried in an avalanche at the headwaters of the Ganges river.

Autumn 1965

Experimenting on dogs to get better medical cures is ethically questionable...but just to get better airport dogs?!?

May Professor Lee and his children die of cancer.

There is some logic in what you say. However, if I was on Apple's board, I'd be worried about tying up a ton of management time, energy, and focus. If you buy Yahoo, you buy big headaches - morale, layoffs, merging cultures, skeletons in the closet, hundreds of decisions about what to do with different properties (virtual and physical), many new vendor relationships, new legal relationships/issues, etc.

And it wouldn't be a small purchase - we're still talking billions. Yes, Apple could afford it, but by size I mean king-sized issues. This isn't like buying some small startup with interesting tech where you roll into into yourself and six months later it's no longer part of your day-to-day worry. Buying a company the size of Yahoo will take X% of your management talent for a year or two.

The questions are (a) how big is X, and (b) is what you get for that X% worth the headache and (more importantly) the opportunity cost.

Do you have an example of this? And perhaps an explanation of what an "argument based on religious overtones" means, because that is vague, bordering on non-English...