Should soon start work for that LA basketball team Balmer purchased.

"Is that a three-pointer you're attempting? Can I . . ."

Which validates the belief that the even version numbers (Vista, Win8) are crap and the odd version numbers (XP, Win7) are better.

Waiting for the inevitable reboot of the franchise.

What is exercised the most becomes the strongest.

Beam me up.

Perhaps you can write a script that will do that for you and possibly make some random clicks.

... in the butt.

This must be ancient alien plastic.

A new face for EVIL.

My thoughts are that posting in on-line communities is done mostly for reasons of self-esteem (although there are obviously other motivations) by people whose task is to share and receive useful-to-them information.

If your self-esteem is high, the post itself provides the validation and positive or negative comments have little to no effect on what you post since validation is intrinsic.

If your self-esteem is low, validation comes through feedback. Positive feedback is then seen to come from kindred souls and negative feedback from trolls. In both cases, validation is extrinsic and therefore has a volatile effect on the poster.

My problem with TFA is what they quantify as "better" content. People post using words, phrases and grammar that they come equipped with; their level of education is fixed for the most part; their real-life experience and socialization is essentially fixed for the short run. Their ideas and opinions are already formed. There will not be any substantial improvement in the quality of what people post, no matter what the feedback is.

Obviously, we need to fund more studies, especially studies done at exotic locales and funded by government money.

It would most likely look like AOL and BBS.

Does Slashdot get all its news stories from FARK.com?

I read most of the current crop there first.

Unless you compile from vetted source code on an un-compromised system using an un-compromised compiler, etc., you can't be certain the binary they provide is the same as what compiling the source code would provide.

So who added that little sentence to the farm bill?

Coffin . . . meet nail.