I agree we want links to the original material. Those are always appreciated (give or take nsfw, etc). But as a former news poster at an unrelated site, it's good manors to also link where you actually saw the news first yourself. That way two niche sites posting the same news day after day don't end up hating each other for never giving credit. A lot of sites have source and via links at the bottom of the posts, eg engadget. That's kinda lazy from the poster's point of view. Slashdot has the more traditional posting style of writing it all out and trying to be interesting. And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following. Via links give me warm community-first fuzzies!

I had something similar. I started dating another dev from the same org. We worked on the same floor and often wandered over to hang out when stressed or bored. It was nice having someone who was on the same product cycle as I was. Crunch time, bug bashes, etc were never an issue, etc.

The story sounds a whole lot more like the perils of putting a flirty hot girl among a socially awkward group of guys. Obviously she'll be able to take advantage. And while it won't happen every time, it's pretty obvious it'll happen some of the time. Poor guys.

My cables look like this:

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Since the connector on my phone is at the top left and I know which way the notch goes, I almost never get it backwards. It's muscle memory at this point.

The only advantage I see (besides lockin/marketing) is that it could potentially be the only thin connector that is forward compatible to usb 3. As far as I know, there's no single port which can do micro usb 2.0 and 3.0. They release the iphone 5 with usb 2 but perhaps their next model needs faster data for some tasks. They can update to support usb 3 via their connector without having to change ports. While most manufacturers probably wouldn't consider it a big deal to switch to the new micro usb 3 port in the future, it would be hard for apple to build a huge accessory market if they didn't stick to a single connector for a reasonable amount of time.

In a lot of cases you don't need the pilot. But you *DO* need/want them as a backup. And honestly, I'd rather they stay awake playing games than pass out from boredom.

AP1000 is a gen 3 reactor. Bill has been pushing to get a gen 4 reactor built. I *think* that this would be the first gen 4 approved for construction. It sounds like Bill's reactor could actually use the spent fuel rods from a gen 3 like the AP1000 as fuel.

The glow nook is awesome for low-light / dark reading. I much prefer it to reading on my ipad, completely regardless of lighting conditions. The weight of the 10" ipad is a big issue for reading though. If you're going to laze around for a few hours with a book, the ipad starts to feel pretty heavy on the wrists. The nook still feels light. The only issue I have with my nook for reading is that the next/prev buttons are too stiff. I end up getting a sore hand from flipping pages. I guess I don't have my perfect device yet.. soon though I hope!

Mbps has always been bit, not byte. They're just different ways of writing the same thing. You might make a differentiation between Mbps and MBps where the caps refer to megabytes. But typically, people use that when talking in megabits. Another form like MB/s would be more common for megabytes / sec. Using completely different looking forms is usually a lot easier than relying on caps to guess. We don't always do the same thing so it's always always always better to double check if it's not obvious from the context.

3b) Or alt+f4 on the desktop :D

It doesn't matter who people have decided to support. What matters is if they actually vote. In my mind, the presidential election is won by a campaign which gets their supports to the polls and disenfranchises their opposition from the political world enough they don't bother.

Mobile users who don't need to use a mouse for extended periods of time. But if you wanted to pick one golden scenario, it would be 'perfect' for on-the-go users of office on a win8 tablet, which is still mostly a desktop-based experience.

Tor's main purpose is anonymity. That's a little different.

Not quite true. You don't have control over the servers in the middle with internet traffic. The key isn't who is running the central server, it's whether or not the software uses public key encryption for the actual VOIP traffic. You can write a service to be secure, and you can write the service not to be. I would presume that skype shares the encryption key for their VOIP traffic with their central server. I'm not sure what laws enforce this. Perhaps it's not required in all countries. Perhaps the skype-to-skype calls are secure.

The most important thing to note is that this is a closed-source app with a central server. There's no way to know if the VOIP keys are being sent to the centralized server. From a security standpoint, you can't assume they're not. And since skype won't go on the record, it seems to make a whole lot of sense to assume they do.

In any case, I wouldn't recommend it for chinese dissidents.

Pretty much exactly right. I'll just add that the important tools for building dynamic sites are the tools built into the browsers. Dreamweaver isn't going to help you debug your javascript. Laying out a little DOM is typically not where the majority of development time is spent.

WYSIWYG editors are only useful for quickly prototyping ideas. They produce throw-away quality results. Professional developers, such as myself, create throw-away quality results by hand :)

You need to pay to have an OS signed. That is true. But you can certainly still install an unsigned OS such as linux. So for the intel version, the answer is "absolutely yes, of course you can run linux. It's a PC, not an ipad!" But yes, like most every ARM device I know of, the RT model is locked down and would need to be jailbroken for anything else.