The introduction of conditioner is what allowed the practice of daily shampooing to become common. I can still remember the Clairol Herbal Essence commercial jingle from the late sixties / early seventies:

"You can wash your hair, now, every night, every night...",

Myself, I stopped shampooing daily in the eighties. I rarely shampoo more than once per month, just rinse it with water during my daily shower. My (long) hair stays clean enough, looks healthy, and is easier to manage. If you're not using shampoo, you'll have no need of conditioner, (except when you do shampoo).

Dear Google,
If you're reading this, (haha, I know you are!), please, come save me from the Comcast-Time Warner monopoly and their slow as molasses high-speed internet.

I'm sorry, that's complete hogwash. I don't know if you've ever owned records, but I've been buying them since the mid-sixties. I'm sure I have many records that are older than you are. If you only get fifteen plays out of an album, you are doing something seriously wrong. I'm a little shocked at how many slashdotters seem to believe this nonsense, but I guess many people have now grown up without any exposure to vinyl. Now, if you're not here to cut the grass, please get off my lawn.

With proper handling and a proper turntable setup, records can be played and last many decades. I have records that are fifty years old, records I've played many times, that are in perfect shape. My punk records from the late seventies / early eighties got a lot of use, bordering on abuse, when I was a club DJ thirty-some years ago. Still got 'em, and they still play great. I'm sure records will "wear-out" eventually, but jeez, several decades of use seems "fairly superior" to me, compared with other physical media.

When CDs first came out in the mid-eighties, we were promised that:

a.) they'd sound better, and

b.) they'd last forever.

I was an early adopter, but by the mid-nineties, I'd figured out the hard way that neither were true. At least, not if you had a proper hifi.* Thank god, I kept all my records! By 1995, I traded-in all my CDs for more records, and have never looked back. I am very grateful the rest of the world seems to be catching up. There was a short period when I thought records would cease to be made.

I have many records that are thirty, forty, and fifty years old, and play perfectly. I had always taken care of my records, and did the same with CDs. Yet, my CDs, no matter how carefully I handled them, would always end up skipping, or making weird noises. With the advent of high(er) speed internet and the MP3, and later, better file formats, it always shocks me to hear that anyone buys CDs anymore.

*If you have less than a couple thousand dollars to spend on sound reproduction, you are definitely better off going with digital. With a $500 turntable/cartridge setup, you're gonna continue to wonder why people say records sound better.

What are they gonna do with big speakers? I doubt one in fifty slash-dotters owns a proper stereo to begin with, (put down the keyboard, I'm not talking about you). Few people understand what "flat bass" means, let alone care about it. They just want to hear low-end of some sort. For them, Bose sounds great. In fact, I would venture to say many people actually like boomy bass. People buy these Dre's to connect an iPod. How good do they have to be? Isn't it the name printed on them that really counts?

Kudzu. Just sayin'. And for a novel lifeform, the whole World is its oyster, (or Zebra Mussel), since it would essentially be an invasive species everywhere in the World. The Law of Unintended Consequences, and all that....

As usual, it's a bit of both. What is clear is that anyone can improve their level of intelligence.

I think this is intended for those users who use poor passwords. Although, come to think of it, it wouldn't help them either.

This shouldn't be an issue. I'm a long-time Mac OS user, which has come with an encrypted password manager since at least 2001. I'm sure Windows must have one by now, too. It's trivial to create a strong, unique password for every site or service I sign-up to, (somewhere north of 600 unique passwords, now), and I've only had to remember one strong password all these years. I've never had an account compromised. Why isn't everyone doing this?

If you were a little older, kid, you'd be remembering the reliability of older cars much differently. You grew up during the dark days of American car making. I'll take the simplicity and rock-solid build of a 1960's American car, any day.

I'm with you. I liked the internet a lot better before everyone decided they needed to make a buck off it. I wish most of these commercial sites would go out of business. It's actually a lot harder to find stuff I'm interested in, now.

Here's another thing I learned in the early days of the internet: Never use your real name online. You use your real name on Facebook, and you care about your privacy? I'm sorry, you're an idiot. It seems like every month there's an article like this, from some clueless "tech writer" who seems completely oblivious to the existence of ad and tracker blocking, and cookie management. I'm a truck driver, for god's sake.

The DEA shouldn't exist, period. How adult people choose to spend their free time should be no concern of government. Prohibition always creates crime where none existed.

Clearly you've never heard of "smurfing." The large-scale operations have mostly been taken over by Mexico, where this pesky law doesn't exist. As always, where there's a will, there's a way.

I still remember the first time I ever saw a personal computer. I guess it was around 1979, and my friend bought some kind of computer that you hooked up to a TV, and, if I'm remembering correctly, you programmed in Basic, and had eight switches instead of a keyboard, (again, if I'm remembering correctly. Is that possible?). I wish I knew what this thing was. Anyway, the most interesting thing to me was that you could write a program that would make a sort of swirling psychedelic pattern happen on the TV screen - excuse me, monitor.

What I do remember clearly, is thinking, "Why in the world would anybody ever want a computer at home?" A few years later, I wanted a MacIntosh, badly.

Man, what country do you live in? Here in the US, you have two choices: The local cable internet monopoly, or nothing. Unless you seriously consider wireless phone data an option.