I've seen a few people complain about speedI had been using NeoOffice for a long time (mainly because at the time I installed it, there was not a version of OOo that used Aqua widgets).

Now OOo has full OSX support, and I've found it significantly faster than NeoOffice (I don't have hard figures, but Neo Office took approximates as long as Photoshop to start up, which is pretty ridiculous).

Yes I'm sure it was _quite_ sophisticated.

Just like the bombing attempt that lead to the liquid ban.

Oh wait, that attempt involved hydrogen peroxide and tang, which at worst would mean whoever sat next to the perp would have to get a few stitches. Ever filled a soda bottle with vinegar and baking soda? Same concept.

Bombs work two ways, either via explosive force, or by creating shrapnel. A bomb that does not have sufficient explosive force to breach the cabin, and that does not have sufficient force to propel small objects throughout the cabin will NEVER be a serious threat.

Anyone remember Yahooligans?

"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science." - 1984

Waiter covers 70% of the Earth's surface. Now, if we exclude areas that would cause catastrophic flooding the number gets smaller, but I'll bet we could find someplace out in the middle of the ocean to deflect it.

You can create a custom browser user agent .

Our Mayor has already recently implemented a drink tax.

The problem is that our mayor has no respect for college students. During the G20 there was a HUGE backlack because on multiple occasions the police ordered people to disperse, then gave them no means. One youtube video I saw showed a well known pedestrian brige. This bridge crosses a major road and leads to the largest of Pitt dorms.

A large number of students were trapped on the brige - riot cops on both end refused to let anyone pass. They were then tear gassed (and some arrested) for "failure to disperse".

Any other mayoy wou ld have been down on his knees begging for forgiveness that close to re-election. Our mayor's response, directed at the ACLU state legal chief : "I heard we're going to face a free-speech lawsuit. Well, I have some free speech for you -- fuck you, Vic Walczak!"

They may not be legally disallowed from calling the poster's employer, but one could make the argument this violates their privacy policy.

Most people don't even understand the concept of a browser, let alone a search provider.

This is solely because IE8 has bing included.

It's called MOSS. Free for educational use, though a company like Microsoft would need a site license, but it would probably pay for itself when you factor in the money paid to PR firms to compensate for blunders like this.

I mean, I don't think anyone seriously thinks MS intended to steal GPL code. But if you have subcontractors writing shitty code, and you're forced to acknowledge this publicly, that have a very real cost - it undermimes your image as a respectable software company.

If the malicious content is served by the site, then even using a whitelist ala Flashblock won't work, will it? That's pretty scary.

Contrary to the article (at CMU at least) we _are_ required to run our Mturk studies past the IRB.

They all get rubber stamped 99% of the time, but it's still an important formality.

If you just want to track weight loss, the Hacker's Dietonline weight tracker is great. It's by John Walker (one of he creaters of AutoCad)

One of the things that can be discouraging when losing weight is the daily fluctuations. The Hacker's Diet log software provides a nice weighted average so even if you gain a bit (say, 180.5 one day and 181.2 the next) you can see that the trend is still downwards.

There's also excel sheets with macros for those of you dislike the idea of putting your weight info into the cloud.

NOTE: The diet itself is crap - get your actual diet elsewhere. In fact, diet is a horrible term - think of it as a lifestyle change: Less bad food. More good running.

I think Cringley is defining "security expert" as someone who is in the process of completing or has completed a doctorate in computer science and done significant peer reviewed research in the area of network security, while the government is seeing a "security expert" as someone with a CS background and some coursework in security or someone with advanced security certs (Eg: CISSP)

The term "expert" has a very different meanings in acadmenia than in industry/government.

The judge "vacated" the jury's decision? How is that legal?

I have never heard of this concept that a judge can tell a jury "you're wrong, I'm finding the defendant guilty"

In fact, a major legal concept, jury nullification relies on the idea that a jury can disobey a judge.