"She also accused Lenovo and Superfish of invading her privacy and making money by studying her Internet browsing habits".

To me, this was more interesting than all the rest. It has the potential to break the big telcos, cable companies, Google, and anyone else who makes a living by tracking your browsing habits to server you "targeted advertising".

The problem with robotic judges is that inevitably, you will get Robot Santa Syndrom.

Great. If I could only get coverage at my home [NOTE: I live within the Los Angeles city limits], I would switch to T-Mobile in an instant.

Don't forget the episode where Leonard claimed his rocket fuel would make Wolowitz's model rocked more powerful than an F-1 engine (I believe that Leonard claimed 8 Meganewtons).

I believe that in the US, it's 20 years, period. No renewal.

Disclaimer: IANAPA

The malware also doesn't work at all during August, and will randomly go on strike.

It also immediately surrenders to the first AV program to find it.

He's talking about the systemd module that *compiles C#.

The problem with Rust is that you have to spin loop for any delay, because as we all know... Rust Never Sleeps.

For a while I worked on artillery control systems. The 16 inch NAVGUNs were considered among the most accurate.

Also, anecodtal and second hand, but allegedly when a CFF went to a BB, they'd ask what side of the street you wanted the shell to hit.

BB's were used as ground fire support in Nam (a co-worker once told me an apocryphal story about a call for fire that got routed to a BB), but other than showing the colors, they really haven't done anything else since.

Dammit! You beat me to it!!!!

Niven and Pournelle got it right!!!!!

You have to have the branes to figure it out yourself...

You just set up the computer controlling the experiment to create a bunch of zombie processes. They'll eat the branes...

Yep. In the days before Fry's, the Shack was the place to go for components.

Then they decided to become Best-Buy-wannabees.

I didn't really look closely. It just immediately jumped out at me.