It isn't nice to refer to her as a "box". I hope he's using a condom.

I hope Howard, Leonard, and Rajesh didn't just mess up Sheldon's experiment...

Silly EA. They should have known pulling out isn't a safe form of copy protection. Didn't they take 5th grade health class?

It is the ONLY EA game I've bought in the last decade. My friends begged me to give it a try, and the talk of 64 player games was really interesting to me. I've learned from my mistake, and won't make it again. For the record, I purchased from Amazon, not direct from EA, so EA would not refund me. I'm absolutely positive Amazon would, but frankly I'm not sure EA would get the message.

This seems to be tied to certain ISPs, especially Uverse. They claim they can't verify it is a US IP address, even though I'm in indiana and the IP clearly comes up under a US company's IP block (AT&T). The first EA person actually had the nerve to tell me my ISP programmed the release date wrong. The second one said it would be fixed in an hour. Finally after getting a manager he said they are aware of the problem and can only wait until 7pm tomorrow. I asked why don't they just completely remove the lock outs to let people play the game they paid for, acknowledging that some regions may get early access. That was "impossible". I bet people pirating the game are playing just fine, I feel like a fool for parting with $100 for the deluxe edition. Not buying another EA game. Some have suggested using a VPN service to somewhere else in North America that the Origin virus can verify you to North America properly. Silly...

They are jumping through coils. Tesla coils...

I'd like to see your stats on that. The last real figures I've seen show only 30% want it repealed. The Republicans as usual think they speak for everyone when really they only speak for their narrow elitist buddies. It is all really ironic considering the health plan was originally planned by Republicans, until the Obama administration actually got it done... at which point since it wasn't their idea any more it became the WORST THING EVER. Frankly, there are more important things that they could be focusing on, like our crumbling transportation infrastructure or other real problems. If people really wanted them to keep doing this, why does this Congress have the lowest approval rating in the history of political approval tracking?

Sounds a lot like Congress... "Hey, maybe the 42nd attempt to repeal the healthcare laws will work better!"

Maybe Linus needs to create a backup program like he did when he wanted a better version control system and created git? Also, why is the only copy of the changes on his local workstation and not a server with redundancy? This seems rather amateurish.

Wow, it used to have a thick atmosphere AND feet? Awesome! What is Mars' shoe size?

Sounds like we are on the road to a good Quantum Leap! I can't wait to meet Al!

So, the predominant theory seems to be that the water on Earth came from comets raining down in mass quantities in the early days of the Earth. The samples of this old water source shows a high amount of hydrogen. Could the water here have come from our planet having a lot of H2 that burned/reacted with the O2 we had, creating all our water, instead of being delivered here from the sky?

I averaged 9ms from my office. Masked our internal IPs but here's the full path. I sense some instability on the ATT backbone. We're in Indianapolis.

Tracing route to slashdot.org [216.34.181.45]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms <1 ms *******
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms *********
3 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms ********
4 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 209.*.*.*
5 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 206.246.181.101
6 8 ms 8 ms 15 ms gi7-0.corea.ind.iquest.net [206.246.181.78]
7 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms 12.117.232.25
8 14 ms 35 ms 11 ms cr84.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.132.90]
9 12 ms 14 ms 12 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.7.250]
10 9 ms 75 ms 65 ms cgcil03jt.ip.att.net [12.122.84.93]
11 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms att-gw.chicago.savvis.net [192.205.35.42]
12 10 ms 29 ms 10 ms hr1-te-9-0-0.elkgrovech3.savvis.net [204.70.196.14]
13 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms das6-v3035.ch3.savvis.net [64.37.207.170]
14 10 ms 18 ms 21 ms 64.27.160.198
15 9 ms 10 ms 11 ms slashdot.org [216.34.181.45]

Trace complete.

Any word on if this stuff contains BVO like regular Mountain Dew? I would hope the answer is "no", but I've been wrong before.

You could possibly be looping through an array or reading lines in a data file (such as CSV) and have some elements or lines with errors that you just want to handle and keep processing. Exceptions would be a bad choice here. You assume if one entry is bad, they all must be, which is almost never the case. I code for a company that deals with huge (million+ entry) data sets. Using and dealing with exceptions is to be avoided when possible. If you think 4ms is trivial, I would not trust you to write any of our performance code.