What's the problem with Perl again?

It's not new enough or buzzy enough.

A good commercial pizza oven can get to 1000*F but not 1500!

T-mobile refunds the last 2 years of cellphone service to all customers past and present.

That would be fair and just.

HP don't seem to have ditched Windows 8 in the UK, at least not for consumer machines you buy in stores. (Source: Multiple friends and family have recently been in the market for laptops and we looked at several HP models via multiple suppliers. I can't comment on what their on-line or business sales are doing right now though.)

SQL server is down and the boss is in the elevator coming to fire you is a pretty critical bit of information.

I get all kinds of stats from work and home, the Pebble has a full open API that allows me to do whatever I want. the Samsung crap is closed up tight with not even any promises of opening it up yet.

Most neurosurgeon bots are run on old PacMan arcade motherboards. I though that was common knowledge!

here in the USA I can point you at several buildings that have been "for rent" for well over 30 years and have never EVER been occupied. They were built and then sat there.

All over the USA there is crap like that.

Don't forget about the resolution he got out of a video controller. Or the way he mercilessly attacked the IC count. Woz is a populist geek hero to anybody who wants to maximize performance while minimizing cost.

The big iron folks always look down their noses at the little people with their little computers, but they don't start any revolutions.

I did the same, except I returned to ti Best Buy and got a Pebble instead.

Works a LOT better for what a smart watch is good for, critical Information display.

"GNU/Linux systems just can't seem to get a foothold in the consumer market."

Actually almost 100% of homes in the USA have GNU/Linux systems. Their TV, Their Bluray Players all run Linux. Tons of consumer devices run linux in homes.

So I noticed they didn't say the USA was one of the countries the NSA can't spy on, so I guess nothing is changing?

Sorry to drag out the UID, but this all goes back to the Echelon stories we were discussing here in the 90's. The same group of countries has agreements to spy on each others' citizens for the sake of circumventing their local laws. One presumes this is why GCHQ figures so prominently in the Snowden revelations.

Even that the NSA is not legally allowed to spy on US citizens does not matter, nor do any of the current Congressional posturings about stopping them from doing so.

We're back to the beginning again, but this time the enemies of liberty are two orders of magnitude more well-equipped. The slope is not a good one.

If NoIP doesn't drain Microsoft's reserves significantly for doing this, then they'll just do it again. It's important to speak to somebody in their native language whenever possible.

Do you want the justification that invokes 'child pornographers', 'terrorists', or just generic 'boogey men'?

We should change the definition of Legal to "Backed by much money".

It's better to study history than folklore, especially if he about whom the history is told is doing the telling.

They'll need a more expensive one if NoIP seeks a claim for disparagement of their brand name.