One swallow does not a summer make. It's still Taxachusetts.

There was a little dev, who had a little TRex, right in the middle of his forehead
When he was good, he was very very good,
And when he was bad he was horrid.

My work mobile phone happens to be the same number as a restaurant, except a different (nearby) area code. So I get a couple of calls a week. I've gotten calls from the state department of revenue, too. Someone keeps trying over and over, and just can't figure out the area code thing.

Just another USG subversion campaign. If you don't bend the knee to the USG-led globalist finance system, you are targeted. I wonder what color of Soros-funded "revolution" is coming soon to Iran?

Trying Chrome. It's OK, as good as Firefox at least for me. I'll stick with it for a while to see if I can deal with it long term.

When I tried Chrome, I just didn't like it. I hated the bookmarks management. I like the customizability of the interface of Opera, so Chrome (and FF as it imitates Chrome) really chapped my butt. I had been a sorta-Firefox user (for sites that Opera choked on) and the rest of the family was using Firefox. But then FF went spasdic with its updates and breaking addons, and I just moved everyone to Opera, mostly. But I might take a look at Chrome again.

Just a flimsy skin on WebKit now. Starting from scratch they have a long long way to go to get to current Opera feature state. And the new Android version is a dead shadow of its former self. I'm now trying to get used to Firefox.

"America" and "banana republic" are one and the same now.

Even the BlinkFeed missed it, it came and went so fast.

It's obvious that people feel that they don't need to be alert to their surroundings. That is madness. This crime wave is basically the result of people making themselves easy targets. I know our world may shriek "blaming the victim", but you really ought to be on guard, it's your responsibility, it's your stuff, it's your life.

It's a Slashdot theorem that Technology Cannot Be The Problem. You may proceed, that is all.

De Cloud, de cloud!

America is a land of fear. It is easy to paralyze us, we are already just short of paralyzed by fear all the time anyway.

They're counting on the intelligence of the American people. Whoops! As Mencken quipped, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. So T-Mobile is paddling upstream, spitting into the wind, and kicking against the goads.

Has a deal to display one of the early Wright flyers. The deal stipulates that the Smithsonian MUST present the Wright brothers as the first. Period.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead

"When the Flyer was finally brought back and presented to the Smithsonian in 1948, the museum and the executors of the Wright estate signed an agreement (popularly called a "contract") in which the Smithsonian promised not to say that any airplane before the Wrights' was capable of manned, powered, controlled flight.[37][note 5] This agreement was not made public."