I have unlimited texting in the UK, but most of my friends are in various countries. I don't like IMs, but when a friend suggested that there is an IM that requires no signup and shows you directly which of your phone contacts are on, I tried it out. So, it works well and you can post pictures and sound into the conversation, hence much better than SMS.

Substantial power savings, but certainly not the same price bracket. It is a $149 card so most reviews don't pit it against the much cheaper $119 R7 260X. In fact newegg right now sells an XFX OC edition of 260X for $119 and a Sapphire for $114 after rebate. Let's not mention that the Maxwell card gets trounced even by the cheaper 260X at many OpenCL tests - and reduced FP64 to 1/32 (vs the previous gen 1/24), so compute is also out. You have to pay dearly for the efficiency, nVidia as usual demands a price premium. Basically thank god for AMD being able to keep up, otherwise nVidia would be selling their cards 2X and 3X the price!

We don't really know that petitions don't get attention from the WH, but it is an interesting question. I suggest we start a petition for the WH tell us whether they take petitions under serious consideration or not.

Sorry, I meant Microsoft. In my mind they seem so similar these days...

Are you serious? He is requesting at the same time to be paid (quite highly actually - no it is not a good deal) for his photos AND be put down as a sponsor AND have his name printed on them. You can't ask for all of that - you give something to be a sponsor, you don't take, and in general asking for a big sum for photos usually means allowing no watermarks etc. And IN ADDITION he wants to be their official international photographer for life! But of course his father is a "cosmetic surgeon" and told him he can spend money and lawyer up, so he thought a little ridiculous extortion is fine too...

The kid seems like a little shit to me. When he found out they were using the pictures he send an extortionist email. He wrote that his father "a cosmetic surgeon", advised him to retain a lawyer and sue in federal court. But he said, magnanimously, instead he is: "requesting compensation as follows: $100,000.00 US deposited into my business bank account, additionally to be named the Official Photography Sponsor of The Color Run (Internationally) for the remainder of its existence, my Logo to be added in sponsors section next to Chevy on the bottom of your web pages. My name to read at the bottom of any photo's used in legible print from the next print run forward as, Photogrph by Max Jackson." "if no efforts are made within 15 days, to contact me I will be forced to take further action." This is not some poor kid here that they take away his livelihood. Yes, Color Run was in the wrong, but I can understand how they would get litigious after this!

So, they steal your wallet and you quickly find out. Now what? They can log in, you can't without the password. Genius. No, the password changing policies are stupid. One of my banks requires a new password every 1-2 months, which also has to follow specific guidelines (guess how much less secure that makes the password by reducing the possible password space) and does not allow you to enter one similar to the previous passwords. So far I've had to call 3 times for their reset process... For my WiFi I have a password that is 3 very long foreign names. That is one kind of password that can't be brute-forced or guessed, but very few password policies allow something like that. For example I tried it for skype and it got rejected for lack of security, while a 7-letter lower case english word plus the number 1 was deemed fine! Go Google!

My comment went from +4, Funny to -1, Flamebait, which would mean most moderators seem to think that I am making fun of a rational POV in order to stat a flame war? Interesting, and you can't blame this to the Beta!

God is giving us a great test. Only the truly righteous and resolute will be able to escape the appeal of "convenient" blasphemous explanations.

Wow, you waited and waited for almost 2 years since your last post just for such an opportunity? :)

Apparently they dismissed schools more than an hour and a half after the snow started. But the point is they had a severe weather warning. I was saying that in Athens usually you don't even need a warning, but when there is a warning it is even more obvious that schools won't open...

I usually joke about the Athens (Greece) snow situation, but it works. You see in a city that can get an inch or two of snow for a day every 3-4 years you don't need any planning. You wake up in the morning and you see some snow. Hey, no school! You can switch on the TV/Radio to verify, but when people wake up and it is snowing they stay home, no prior warning required.
Then, there are a few snow-plows, which are obviously parked outside the city since they are almost never needed in the city. And equally obviously, the one day they are needed there is no way for the drivers to actually go there and fetch them. So, you have to wait for the snow to melt by itself (quickly), and you go to work/school the next day.
Having lived in NY, I used to make fun of the fact that Athens is paralyzed with half an inch of snow, but after seeing the Atlanta mess, I guess they are doing pretty good!

If this thing takes off, I can imagine in a few years the highly subsidized corn industry trying to sell high concentration fructose batteries, marketing them as "corn sugar fuel cells".

Eh, are you serious? You can't just trademark the names of products that are not yours in countries where they have not yet applied just to blackmail the company. If you have a legitimate product and you are the first to register that name for it, it is all good and they will have to pay you to get it back. But this guy just registered the name and made a fake "Tesla Motors China" website, complete with the Tesla logo and a car he had no relation to, then asked for millions.

Hmm, I always read it as: "Malicious, Software Removal Tool" and opted out to avoid having it maliciously remove my software. I would even be shocked that MS would even propose such a thing, but I read slashdot, so I did expect such and worse...
But in retrospect, perhaps you are right, and it is just a Tool that removes Malicious Software?
Honest mistake, I mean that's how Pythia had all the success...