It "POPPED"? (*cancels reservations*)

Amazing that '1984' would turn out to be due to marketing pressure, not the "evil Big Brother government" as was always assumed.

Actually, "Just get us self-driving cars already so that this and a number of related problems go away." is the REAL answer. The truth is that humans should not be driving cars or anything, if at all possible. We such at it. We kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. We NEED automatic cars, PLEASE. Thank you.

If I could, I would turn it all off. (Being a developer, it's a bit hard.) I got sent overseas 30 years ago for a year. (Pre-Internet! lol) We usually got all non-ridiculous news in 3 - 4 days. So, I kicked my news habit. (There was no English TV either, so I also quite accidentally kicked my TV habit.) So, really, how much does this "news" really affect your life? No much, really. Have a nice day. Cheers!

He probably feelss that most market traders would trade their mothers, wifes, and children, for starters, for more money. I have no idea where he got that notion. Your compassion reply surely has helped rid him of that idea. happy holidays.

Or, maybe, "Send me $5000 or the chicken gets choked!"

Yeah, and why do they never sit down to drink their coffee? Hmmm? "Sip and Run" is all they do! Why, oh, why? Hmmm?

Does the book say anything, anything at all, about Accessibility? Might be nice, for a change.

Seems like this sort of story always brings out the low number /.'ers. I remember one post in the last few years where each reply was by a lower post until someone showed up with a number under 1000. (If I remember right, lol. Memory is not my strong suit now. And the older I get, the less I can about that. lol) While this was all happening, I was changing vacuum tubes in military crypto boxes. lol Hell, I remember my dad testing our TV's vacuum tubes at the A&P grocery store.

I guess you haven't been to Europe lately. I lived in Germany the last 3 years. Any thought that cell phone service in the EU is cheaper than anywhere in the US is just laughable. Or, wrong, if you need the word. Happy Holidays.

Better than tanks, imho.

Ha! Reminds me of the time I went to a talk by a Tibetan lama. He asked a question of the audience and requested that everyone who thought the answer was "yes" to "raise your arms." I had to do a mental double-take to get back to the question. :) (In the USA, our expression is "raise your hands".) Good to get my brain nudged from its nap every now and then.

On a side note, a lot of the "current" articles on InfoWorld seem to be very, very, very similar to articles that have appear on /. A co-inky-dink? (Use of geeky work to throw off the posse...) Prollynot.

To actually be able to figure out how to get some to pay them to research such stuff. I bow to the masters of the truly useless info.

Not much difference lately. /sigh. Time to look for a new news site, maybe.