I'm not sure how "[Biden] makes Palin look like an Oxford Scholar" can be modded insightful. I will agree that Biden makes the odd gaffe but he is unquestionably better informed. He has chaired senate committees on the judiciary and foreign relations which will have exposed him to a whole gamut of issues that Sarah Palin may not even have conceived of. Let's not confuse willful ignorance with an otherwise intelligent person getting caught with their foot in their mouth from time to time!

Disclosure: Note that I'm not American and don't have a particular interest in either the Republicans or the Democrats. From where I sit both parties do little to effect any real improvement over the status quo. And I think Obama has done little to back up his rhetoric of hope and change from the election campaign

Here in New Zealand just about every console/PC game, DVD and CD vendor has decided to refuse product returns due to the "risk" of piracy. I think you can still return a product if it is blatantly defective (i.e., bad media), but otherwise you are out of luck...so it's too bad if the system requirements on the back of the box are outright lies and your machine can't run the game, or if the copy protection doesn't like your DVD drive...

Anyway, there is one retailer (JB HiFi) who have signs all over their games section which state something to the effect of: "No game returns permitted. Your consumer rights are not being violated." I kid you not.

When I was in Southern California I was at a party and the host showed me how to do this with Tecate. It was nice. I think some tomato juice may also have been involved...

Opera does this. Sometimes I've found myself (deliberately) stepping back and forth through 10-20 pages of heavy content (such as galleries on flickr) and Opera does not miss a beat.

Yes you're right, WIN-L is useful against meddling kids. Probably also prevents your cat from ruining your work by walking on your keyboard.

To unlock the machine you have to provide your login and password, or an administrator password. Depending on the group/computer policy in effect, you may have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del first.

WIN+L will also lock your computer. Pretty useless if you're at home, but I use it at work just as I plan to leave my desk for a reasonably long period.

Dude, you sound like J. Edgar Hoover claiming throughout the 50s that organised crime couldn't exist in the United States.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Hoover#Response_to_Mafia_and_civil_rights_groups

I hear your pain. I work for a company whose products are designed to manage energy costs so I have seen many natural gas bills belonging to our clients. Who is your gas provider?

I can't really understand the numbers in the poll options unless someone breaks it down into Libraries of Congress.

Something something something...gee ma, I wanna go home!

Parent just drew my attention to Scully (from "The X-Files", duh) deserving a mention. He's absolutely right...she was awesome at so many things from autopsies to surgery, biology, pharmacology, emergency response... the list goes on. And if Mulder was ever in trouble and needed her help, she would kick ass and take names.