Feed Police blotter: No privacy in home PC brought to work (com.com)
Appeals court rules police don't need a warrant to search personally owned computer a manager brought to work.
Submission + - is gmail down
Anonymous writes: Is gmail down?
I get "Oops ... the system was unable to perform your operation (error code 766).Please try again in few seconds"
I am getting this since 11AM today. Does anyone have problem reading their gmail?
BTW, the http:/// -> https:/// conversion hack to secure the link is a smart feature from google. This is very
useful for folks reading their gmail from work.
Submission + - Webcomic about LotR as a D&D campaign = hilari
EnderQON writes: Lord of the Rings is more or less the foundation of modern D&D. The latter rose from the former, although the two are now so estranged that to reunite them would be an act of savage madness. Imagine a gaggle of modern hack-n-slash roleplayers who had somehow never been exposed to the original Tolkien mythos, and then imagine taking those players and trying to introduce them to Tolkien via a D&D campaign.
Comment Re:'Texting' is a Noun? (Score 1) 144
"I just got an $1800 ticket for texting while driving."
'for texting' is a prepositional phrase with the preposition 'for' and the object 'texting'. It takes a noun to be an object. 'Texting' is the name of an activity. Names are nouns. Note that I am talking about usage. As another poster stated, the word 'texting' has the form of a gerund which is a form derived from a verb that can be used as a noun. It can also be a verb. I am texting him a message right now. Some day that form may be recognized by the dictionary. Dictionaries don't establish language; they describe it according to accepted usage.
English is such a fun language. We can verbify nouns and subject verbs to nounification. Pretty soon, I predict there will one day be only one part of speech, the Interjection.
Wow!
