This is definitely not a stretch, given /.'s consensus on inlaws.

Word of mouth.

Well it has been mentioned a fair number of times, but Dropbox and alternatives require you to agree to essentially identical TOS.

The thumbnail preview of your publicly hosted image is a derivitive. They're not selling your files to customers, the outcry would be massive from these same advocates. Since there is nothing new to cry about, they're rehashing old arguments that have been thoroughly explained and justified, with regards to a hosted cloud service.

I hear this argument a lot on these types of threads. I'm curious as to why you think the value of the still-empty seat is 0. There is still the opportunity cost of letting you have a seat now, as opposed to being pretty confident (with their big-budget analysts, the margin of error is probably quite low) that you will book a different over-priced seat ahead of time like everybody else. I realize the fuel is still being used, but that is not how a bottom-line works.

Basically, I'm under the impression that the empty seat is still worth a significant amount on the chance (which is, statistically, very high) that you will pay more than double a marginal rate on the next, or the next, or the next available flight. Only when flights start to have routinely empty seats, does the value of those seats go to 0. And then the analysts will pull data to adjust flights accordingly. This is not a lose-lose situation for the airliners, just the consumer.

My area of concern revolves around the VA stating they have "isolated some 50k devices with vlans." This implies two things: 1) They're already networked such that they can be placed on their own vlan (or, at least the controllers, or whatever connects to that RF int) and 2) the VA is under the impression that a vlan is a legitimate security measure worth promoting. I do not want something controlling my insulin pump, which is capable of killing me, hooked up to the network. AT ALL.

"Sorry, your daughter died because our network had a brownout and the switches stopped switching, so it interpreted the input from your TV remote which you pointed the wrong way as "PURGE INSULIN." Ugh.

Again, that's not really the problem. It's not about whether or not we are the causation. The problem is that if the atmosphere shifts back towards the state it was in pre-ice age, we are going to be unable to breathe as we know it. The breathing masks you see in so much SF, that you can only do without for so long? They're based in some reality.

Millions of years ago, the climate (read: atmosphere) would've killed large mammals reliant on an oxygen rich environment (which is what is happening now, slowly but surely). The problem isn't that life would not be able to "get by just fine." It's that if the geology of Earth shifts back towards a carbon-rich environment, it won't be conducive to living comfortably, as a human. This is my understanding, anyway.

The argument over whether or not it is a natural occurance is a big one (and worth having, IMO), but global warming nay-sayers choose to be ignorant of the fact that the "natural" environment of yester-millenia would literally kill them in a few short, labored gasps.

Heard of diamonds? Create your market (marketing capable of inducing the gag reflect of a weathered prostitute - reminds me of the Home Shopping Southpark Ep), control the supply (hide the stockpiles), win.

That market has been fully saturated for a few decades, yet the demand and pricing remains essentially the same.

Not that it makes any sense, I just think you're underestimating the stupidity of humanity when it comes to "precious" material.

Don't joke about acromynificationizing. Chaos doesn't even begin to describe the ramifications of such a move in the name of "5, funny."

Not sure if serious.

SoC has been emerging as a more common term in the last 5 or 6 years meaning System on a Chip. The advantages are it uses less power to do more things, and a lot of low level functions (radios, gpu rendering, etc) have more direct access to on-board cache and memory, as well as a direct line to RAM. They're used in just about everything and are essentially equivalent to saying CPU (for anything other than a desktop or laptop w/o IGP), these days.

something something semantics something blahblahblah.

How about you assume he does know what he's talking about, since rarely does anybody say "probably needs a new secondary memory controller and platter due to [insert hdd problem]." Not to mention I can now quote you as saying "hard drive memories."

Or you can just go about being an a-hole, I don't particularly care. I'm just informing you that nobody else does, either.

Best AC comment. Ever.

I've been looking at geekoid's sig, since he changed it, in disapproval.

There's like, what, a billion other characters that have no meaning in English writing, even including niche contexts. The tilde is already defined.

...Well, there is this whole two term in a bipartisan country problem to deal with.

Let us see what happens in the next 4 before we shout "complete failure," shall we?

Besides the fact that he doesn't actually write the legislature itself, just submits ideas and vetoes.

Or: China: We've been manufacturing all of your hardware for decades. What did you expect?