True, but it made click on my RSS feed to go to Slashdot.

Yet another Slashdot misleading article FTW!

Kudos for a well thought out comment. Such a rare gem on a message board.

I used to be an optimist, but then I moved to Kansas...

When is the last time you voted for a member of the FCC board?

"The People" only have indirect influence on these kinds of organizations. All you can do is shout really loud and hope you can be heard over the deafening tone of corporate controlled media.

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

"In 1901, the American inventor King Camp Gillette, with the assistance of William Nickerson, invented a safety razor with disposable blades. Gillette realized that a profit could be made by selling an inexpensive razor with disposable blades. This has been called the Razor and blades business model, or a "loss leader", and has become a very common practice for a wide variety of products."

Apparently a lot of people have never heard of the capital of my state and need to do a search to find out. Google Trends: What does Topeka mean?

Could they store the data in the cloud like a RAID 0 array is set up? Only half the bits are on one server vs. another making it harder to extract data if a single server is compromised? Are they already doing something like this?

"Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass".

WTF! Women are immune?

Damn it! There goes my chances with...

The last supper is thought to have been a Passover Sedar. This would mean, if possible, there would have been many kinds of foods, but not in large quantities.

A little bit of both!

We have actually had TWO different Y2K10 problems at our job. One was related to someone setting certain rules to expire in 2010, because, you know, it was so far off in the future they wouldn't be working here anymore.

The other bug qualifies as complete incompetence on the developer. We contracted another company to write some software to print barcode labels. They encoded pipe delimited values including a date. In order to save digits and thus reduce the size of the barcode they decided to take the year and append the Julian day. For example Jan, 6th of this year would be stored as 2010006. The problem was that they didn't feel that it was necessary to use four digits for the year. Which is understandable, but apparently TWO digits for the year was too much as well. So the end product was a one digit year ex. "0006". The code that reads the label was:
year = 2000 + barcode.left(1);

What's really scary, is that this code had to have been written post Y2K.

The worst part of the whole thing is that we have to go back to the contractor to fix the problem which is going to cost us $$$ beyond the lost revenue of downtime.

Now both of these problems have nothing to do with 2010 specifically, but it just shows how short sighted developers can be.

Bring on the U.N. sanctions. No one sell pocket protectors to NASA. They might be used for nefarious purposes.

You are guilty of not being smart enough to blackmail them for a cut.

How does Microsoft define what is 'explicit'?

That would be an interesting job. Microsoft Smut Engineer. Wait, I think that's what they already call MS Office developers...

Does anyone know if you close the browser if the message still sends? In other words, is it a client-side wait, or a server-side wait for an AJAX cancel message?