Funny, I'm already surviving for more than 30 years with the idea of saving money before you spend it. The only reason I use a credit card is because sometimes it's impossible to pay something another way.

Just stop with all this credit card madness. Save money before you spend it. Don't let the bank own you and your stuff. I thought in the USA everything is about freedom, yet why is everyone a slave of the credit card companies???

Well, then they should simply make it impossible to pay without a PIN. Actually it should've been like that from the start and there wouldn't have been so much problems with stolen credit card numbers.

In Europe it is often already required to enter a PIN when paying something with a credit card. I am wondering why they didn't introduce it in the USA yet...

Interesting, after all these years of trying to get Office onto all computers on the world, they suddenly force someone (Motorola) to make handsets with WordPerfect 7 on it! Where did this change of plans come from??

I guess that is the way to create a success-story. Just have very low expectations and it will always exceed expectations. I don't know if NASA did it on purpose, but it has played out very well, these robots.

Although this news is of course potentially bad news, the lifetime of the Spirit robot exceeded all expectations. I think the original programme was more in the order of months than the years it has been successfully transmitting data now.

Everyone knew that this moment was going to come, so I bet the people working with the robot will be sad, but have planned something new in their lives. Next year for example, NASA is going to launch another Mars rover.

What is a tormented Facebook file??

I am confused. The title says 'Who is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?'. So I was guessing they didn't know and were coming to Slashdot to ask if anyone knew.

But no, they already know it! So why bother and ask us anyway??

I don't get it.

This might be true, but if you compare it to which fraction of our total energy production is renewable, then renewables get relatively more fuel subsidies than the fossil fuels.

Do you sing in 12 languages on a daily basis? And use it to communicate?

Flemish is not a language. From wikipedia: Flemish: Belgian Dutch ( Belgisch-Nederlands (helpinfo)), the national variety of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium,[2][3][4] be it standard (as used in schools, government and the media)[5] or informal (as used in daily speech, "tussentaal ");[6]