Who says we aren't? I am. But I've never used a keyboard that feels and types as well as a Model M. For me at least, I'm able to type significantly faster on one than I am on any other keyboard I've ever tried. I've got 2 of them, they cost me about $8 each, including one of these Airline Reservation Versions.

As a Unix/Linux admin, typing is my bread and butter, so I'm going to continue using the best tool for the job. For me, that's a Model M keyboard. I don't care how much it pissess off the Windows admins in my office, with their cheap-ass Dell keyboards.

Which reminds me, one of the things I don't see anyone mentioning about those cheap keyboards these days is that there is NO plastic around the keys by which to grab the keyboard to pick it up. Any time I am stuck using one and I have to pick up the keyboard, I end up mashing a bunch of keys and screwing up whatever is on the screen because there's only a tiny area above the INS/Home/Pgup keys to grab it by. Crappy typing notwithstanding, even just that issue drives me up the wall!

It *could* if the store at least used the Chip + Pin to validate the person picking up the loot.

Granted, I still don't see how it helps stop people buying stuff on Amazon but that one example you provided should be fairly simple to avoid.

Perhaps they are aiming for a new demographic, who might feel embarrassed by every one else having low user ID's, and who aren't smart enough to understand yyyy-mm-dd date formats?

That's the only thing that makes sense to me. The beta is horrible and as a *LONG* time reader and commenter here, I won't continue visiting if they go live with that horrid beta interface.

Actually no, they still exist, you just can't access them without the private key.
In theory, given enough computational power [unlikely] one could manage to find/re-generate the same private key and would thus have access to those bitcoins.
Of course, if anyone ever had that much computation power available to them it would probably make the rest of bitcoin unviable.

So from a practical standpoint the bitcoin are lost, but they still technically exist.

Pedantic I know. Perhaps one could compare it more to that gold being 'lost' by being converted into some other compound [ie. auric chloride]. The gold is unusable as a currency in that form and thus is 'lost' from that standpoint. But, given the technical know how and resources, you could presumably recover the gold from the compound but it would be difficult and expensive.

The biggest issue I had with I, Robot was that Asimov intentionally wrote robot stories that did "not" involve scary robots running amok and killing people, but that's exactly the movie they made.

On its own as an action/adventure sci-fi, and not branded as an Asimov story I thing the movie would have been much better received, at least by fans of his stories.

FTS: The Debian technical committee has been asked to vote on which init system to use, which could swing in favor of using Upstart due to the Canonical bias present on the committee."

So what are the chances of getting the Canonical-associated board members to recuse themselves from the vote, given the obvious conflict of interest there?

From work I get about 30ms
From my home internet a few miles away I get about 69ms.
Why?
Because Time Warner sucks ass!

Because from my connection in Arlington, TX [near Dallas], Time Warner kindly routes all of my traffic down to Houston, then back up to Dallas before it even leaves TWC's network. Then of course it still has to go the rest of the way to wherever it is going. Of course thanks to their near-monopoly, my alternatives for 30Mbit connectivity are slim.

Best I saw myself was 6.5 years on a Solaris 8 system. I took a screenshot before I shut it down:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doubletwist/3662948158/

And yes, I know it was insecure. It wasn't a system I managed outside of being tasked with decommissioning it.

If you'd like to improve some of your typing skills, you could always try TypeRacer

FTFY

Why yes, we are a Sun/Oracle customer. How did you know?

I don't know about the UltraSparc 10, but the V210 will run Solaris 10 just fine.

Actually, it would probably run Solaris 11 just fine if S11 didn't detect the hardware and refuse to install.

I'm certain it would be just as painful to look at how much one has spent in power and cooling to run that monstrosity since 2005.

It's amazing how drool-worthy systems like this were once upon a time, yet now I realize they are bulky, heavy, loud, hot, power-hungry and painfully slow. I'm just glad we've gotten rid of all our legacy 'purple' Sun hardware.

I suppose it would make a nice end table next to your sofa however.

I'm a big fan of Bistromathics as a method of travel.

I can only speak to 111 8th Ave. The affects in that building appear to be company specific. There's no power in the building, but our datacenter [NTT/Verio] there has successfully been running on generator since 8am Monday.
I guess we got lucky on tank/pump placement? Either that or our frequent generator testing has been a huge success. :)
We've already had one fuel delivery and are expecting another today.

Our other datacenters in the area [NY, NJ, CT] have also managed without outages. Many of them already have commercial power back on again.

NOTICE: The above information is unofficial and may be wildly inaccurate as I am located in another region.