Some free opportunities for public speaking and talking with strangers (without being the crazy person bothering people on the street)

- Go to a local town government meeting and talk about something during the public speaks out portion.
- Volunteer to help out at some local event.
- Join meetup groups with events that involve "show & tell" or "lightning talks"
- Go to a flea market or farmer's market and have a conversation with the vendors about the products they're selling.

Higher efficiency means less waste heat coming from the power supply, so its fan can run quieter.

With only 30 days to get a policy written and added to the app, I guess that means that most iPhone apps will not be able to comply.

He probably got an employee discount.

I bet your the type of person who makes outlandish claims like "Coloring a color by numbers pictures is not art worthy of hanging in the Met".

The problem is that many of the larger companies pay bonuses to employees when one of "their ideas" is filed as a patent. There is a monetary incentive for programmers to generate this crap. IBM is another company that does this and I know a few of their employees that try to get IBM to patent anything and everything for the extra cash in their pay check.

  I still blame the USPTO for granting stupid patents, such as this one. Rate limiting is not a new concept.

"Hack the Planet" doesn't mention that "the Planet" is Earth.

Many power strips include surge suppression ports for RJ-11 and RJ-45.

Most users are stupid and will click okay to anything. They should have redirected to a page with an applet, activex, or some other bit of code that the user will blindly click okay to run that will change their DNS settings to OpenDNS or google's public DNS servers.

This expectation is easily proven by the many businesses that still keep IE6 around because of a business critical web site that requires it.

iGoogle is the only browser homepages I've used in the past ~5 years. I guess it's time to switch back to about:blank or roll my own replacement for iGoogle.

From the article, "The iPad was to be a gift for her cousin who lives in Iran." That's re-exporting. Had the Apple customer knowingly sold the iPad to a person who stated they would re-export it to Iran, it could have resulted in fines for Apple and jail time for him. Good for the employee not doing something stupid.

My job forces me to understand ITAR. Due to ITAR, we have a policy that prohibits interactions with anyone who is a citizen of the group E restricted countries. We also have restrictions about the types of interactions we can make for a non group E national who is currently in a group E country. Ignoring ITAR is a good way to get fired and land in a federal pound you in the ass prison.

If the current trend of stupidity continues in America, you won't have to worry about whether or not online education is not as good as hands on. You'll have long given up teaching from frustration when a law passes stating you must give equal time to creationist theories.

Antivirus vendors around the global would disagree with you statement that it was never distributed.

This scenario was observed twice in two years. Not exactly rare when you realize how little of the sky we watch.