Like, will it still count as masturbation if he uses the cybernetic hand?

And, can they give you control without feeling sensation? Because that would totally feel like somebody else's hand...

I too have an Inspiron 5150, and I too had the motherboard replaced past the original warranty; however it was still free as a result of a class action lawsuit over this problem in the 5150.
http://www.lieffcabraser.com/dell-inspiron-2.htm

Oh, shit. I was in mid-lick when I read that. If I go put on some gloves after the fact, will I be protected?

Exactly. I used to work for a company where there was one smoker who chain-smoked all day long in her office. She went through computer components and printers like the rest of the office went through coffee. The other computers had hardly any hardware problems. From motherboard failures, dead CPU (heatsink was covered in that fuzzy residue you mentioned), to hard drive failures, multiple dead printers (the electronics apparently, not the mechanical parts); I was always replacing something in her office. It was ridiculous.

I don't blame Apple at all for voiding warranties of computers kept in such damaging conditions. Just seems they are citing the wrong reasons here.

He said one million, but maybe he was just having a Dr. Evil moment.

So what he really meant was ONE HUNDRED... BILLION DOLLARS!

"Long-winded 'explanations' of the code in the application's comments (that is, the ones that read like excuses), indicate that the developer probably didn't understand what he was doing.'"

That's right, I'm an expert and I keep my code comments short and sweet. Observe:

// This function kicks ass.

function kick_ass()
{
...

// This following code is like Chuck Norris. It doesn't know how to fail.

while(true)
{
...

It would be difficult to add any more arrogance to your comment.

As a computer science (BS) student I too had a lot of difficulty with calculus. I'm not bad at math, but calculus in particular was just completely unintuitive to my brain. No other course in the CS program gave me as much trouble as did calculus.

I'm glad I suffered through it (though unfortunately my GPA suffered too) because I do think that calculus is valuable even if rarely used directly in computer science. I'm very good at programming and at problem solving, however I don't think calculus had anything to do with that at all.

Why is calculus required for CS? Probably because CS is frequently offered through the school of engineering and most engineering degrees require calculus. My university has since added a new CS degree (BA) through the college of arts and sciences that does not require calculus. Historically CS got lumped in with engineering because they didn't know where else to put it and that seemed like the closest fit. It is not a perfect fit, and CS does not necessarily require calculus; certainly not in the way the more traditional engineering disciplines do.

As someone with long experience working with lawyers I can tell you that the percentage that are dirty, crooked scumbags is just as high as in IT or the general population. If no lawyer did anything dodgy then there wouldn't be many disciplinary or disbarment hearings, yet they happen all the time. Just look up news reports of lawyers busted for fraud involving millions or billions of dollars. There are several from just the past few days, and that's only one type of dodgy act and only the high-profile cases that make the news.

Yeah, but if you get cited for too many RUI/RWI's they can impound your horse or at least issue you a pink saddle to publicly shame you.

RTFM, Grandma!

Well, of course he did. Riker's used to taking orders. I'm sure he wouldn't get any action at all if Picard wasn't there to say "Engage!"

And I run Windows on a farm, so for me it's a moo point.

Why is this so funny? I use the digital equivalent all the time. No need to store massive amounts of data when you can backup the md5 hash instead. It's never more than thirty-some bytes so I haven't even needed to overwrite older backups.

You're related to that bad analogy guy, aren't you?

I voted for the sun.

Now I'm going to go compile a list of people I would like to nominate for the honor of being the first we send to explore the sun.