A lot of this happens already so people can comment/troll on various Gannet newspaper sites.

True. Heck, even when I was as young as 8, the routine was to come home from school, eat, then go out and play. The only rule was I had to be home by the time the street lights came on. In the Summer I'd be gone all day.

When I was a teenager in the late 70s, there was nothing to do except jump in the car and drive down Main Street and yell out the window to friends loitering in front of the bars, get to the end, come back and do it again, over and over. ("Cruising") or just go on a lot of joyrides.

If I had an xbox or ps4 back then, I'd have probably been on that instead.

I own a very short domain name where the first part of the name is the same as many organization's name.

e.g., if it was example.com then others have example.co.uk or exampleinc.com etc and I get a LOT of their email because I wildcard my domain for email and people just assume that example.com will work

As I get them, I add a postfix rule to reject that specific username but I still get stuff, including very confidential stuff.

I haven't advised these organizations because I fear they'll just turn around and try to dispute to get my domain or accuse me of criminal interception or whatever. So I just delete them and they can wonder why they never got a reply.

Rule #1: "Email is not a guaranteed service."

Rule #2: "Email is not secure. Stop sending confidential stuff through it"

The reason for timezones is to somewhat coordinate daylight with when we are up and about. Obviously this can be shift a bit each way and the seasons certain screw with that, but on the plan OP posted, the west coast would be light until after 1am in the Summer and remain dark until about 10am in the Winter.

If you'd want to do two zones, they should be at least two hours apart from each other.

They forgot all of the companies they've bought and closed down, like Gizmo5

Oh wait, never mind.

So Pirate Bay goes around and getting new IPs and I assume releasing the old ones. Then what? Imagine getting a new netblock for your own stuff and finding out it used to be a PB IP. How do you go about getting that unblocked all around the world.

One of the MAIN reasons these ISP's are introducing tiered pricing is simply to avoid the costs of upgrading their infrastructure. Instead of modernizing their networks and equipment to handle today's higher demand for more and more bandwidth, they simply implement overage fees and/or tiered pricing to keep people's usage within the confines of what their infrastructure can handle.

Sorry, it's really the opposite. They have little economic incentive to expand capacity now. If they charge for overages, they'll have more incentive to entice you to use more bandwidth so they can increase revenue, and a great way to do that is making a faster pipe and encourage you to use services like Netflix to use it up.

Plus the pre-departure drinks that flight attendants serve in first class.

Haven't road up front with USAirways for a while I see... Out of seven flights in First Class to five different cities last year, not once did I get a pre-departure drink.

July 11, 2008 a barrel of oil topped out at $145.08, July 15th Bush lifts ban on offshore drilling and by December of 2008, oil was down to $37.71 a barrel... and that was nothing more than a threat.

Oh come on. Are you telling me that nothing else significant happened in the last half of 2008 that might have affected the supply and/or demand for oil?

Speaking of stamps (or lack thereof), that feature has me wondering. Immigration agents in other countries tend to thumb through passports looking at where you've been. My passport is going to end up having loads of visa stamps for other countries, but no re-entry stamps back into the U.S. I wonder if that will be looked at suspiciously by foreign countries.

I got Global Entry. My interview was touch-and-go. I got grilled pretty heavily and finally the agent said "Why are you nervous? Are you nervous?" and I was like "I wasn't nervous until now" and then he asked "are you on any medication?" I thought for sure I was going to get denied, but I passed.

We make fun of TSA a lot but they do do a background check on you, the interview is looking for certain tells, and even with the pre-check you never know when you'll go through the expedited line or express. I'm betting the agent that scans the BP can also look for tells and push you through the normal line even if the BP says you can go through the quick one.

Also, Global Entry really delivers on re-entry into the country, especially if you're sitting up front. I'm in my car 10 minutes after the door opens (I know where to park right outside the arrivals hall, which helps too)

Must have been some terrible training, since printing and copy/paste shortcuts remained unchanged from 2003 to 2007.

People get set in their ways so if they used to use the File and Edit menus to do those things and they disappear from view, then they get confused.

I'm not going to call them stupid because there's a lot of things they do in their own jobs that are simple to them but I wouldn't understand myself at all.

I can see the bitching from users already. I tried Win 8 myself and was immediately stuck on how to quit an open app or even how to run another one and switch between them. It's just not obvious, and that's going to be a problem.

When Office 2007 was rolled out at my org, even with loads of advanced notice and training, the phone was ringing for weeks "How do I print?" "How do I copy/paste?" etc, etc....

I have a better plan. Keep Windows 7 deployed for as long as XP was before upgrading users.

I should, however, be thankfully to Microsoft for all of the job security they provide.