Oh believe me we'd love it if everything magically changed over to the new date. But using them interchangeably is not so fun, like when your bill says it's due on 2/1/2014.

Read that a couple years back, loved it--didn't realize it was so old. I definitely recommend it, it's fun to see a sci-fi book that takes its idea and just keeps running with it for a lot longer than you'd expect.

I know Yahoo and Bing use the same data for search. Stands to reason they'd share technical data and policies for other services too.

Saying that Mars has an atmosphere, while true, is maybe a bit too generous. I could easily believe that it can't cool sufficiently. Besides, wearing big bulky suits here on Earth, even in cold weather, can give you overheating issues, and these ones would have to be very big and very bulky indeed to last for very long.

Many places in semi-rural USA don't have reliable 3G, so SMS is a good fallback.

Man am I the only person who thought mods ruined Tribes? More than any other game back in those days (which is saying something), it was freakin' impossible to find a server that wasn't running mods. I thought the game was pretty balanced and fun as-is when it came out, and the mods all felt like if you didn't dump a ton of hours into just playing online Tribes you wouldn't even know what was going on.

Oh man, people still play ET? I was addicted to that for a long time, got busy with work, then assumed it had long since died off. I might have go to back, I was an excellent hat removal specialist back in the day.

For one thing, on a bad day, it's a great reminder of why you keep bothering.

Besides, there's always sending out emails like "taking a vacation/sick day, my wife's not feeling well". I guess you could replace that with "my spouse" or just lie, but that's petty to have to do (and easy to forget). You could just not ever talk about your home life because it's nobody's business, but that's incredibly antisocial and not a good way to stay on good terms with your coworkers.

As stated in TFS, it is legal in an awful lot of states, and just because it's not "common" doesn't mean it's worth ignoring or accepting.

I'm happy to live in the tech hub of greater Seattle which is extremely friendly, and of course California and New York and such are also places where you can develop the assumption that this kind of discrimination is illegal everywhere. It's really not, yet. Also you seem to be under the impression that everyone has a friendly HR department. I don't know what the percentages are, but I'm willing to bet that one hell of a lot of people work for small companies where hiring and firing are pretty much their boss's uncontested jurisdiction.

We tech nerds are lucky to live in the world we do. Things are a lot worse in other industries, even within the US, and keeping up the public opinion and legislative fights matter.

I dunno, a big network buy-in to a new distribution model is definitely news in these parts, and "they still show commercials" is an informative summary telling you all that you really need to know.

Congratulations! They are now old enough for you to password protect your services.

Got a picture of your wife on your desk? Ever mention her in offhand conversation? Sure would be nice if gay people were free to do that too without being fired, which isn't true in a lot of places.

I misread the article and thought the printer and Sprout were the same thing, and under $2000. I was excited but I'm sad now.

I was going to agree that email was fine twenty years ago, but I do kind of like the way modern webmail displays threads even if it screws with the paradigm a bit. God, could they possibly have picked worse terminology for this new stuff though. I'll probably avoid it as long as I can.

Er, that's basically what they've been saying this whole time. Lots of reactionaries in the media are screaming that those very statements are lies and cover-ups.