They have to give you ONE cable card at no cost?? Not sure who might give them away somewhere, but neither of the Massachusetts cable companies I've used have ever given them freely. Verizon recently bumped their monthly rental to $5.

I find residential usage citations vary from 5-13% of total California water usage. Let's say it's 10%. I'm having a hard time figuring out how cutting my usage by, say, a big 25% along with every other California resident is going to solve the problem when that represents maybe 2.5% of total water usage. Don't get me wrong, I see no reason to waste water unnecessarily, but I just don't get all the emphasis on residential usage when it's a drop in the bucket. What am I missing?

Since dinosaurs went extinct just 6000 years ago, it shouldn't be all that hard to find some DNA that's not too terribly degraded.

And arguably the author and publisher come out ahead because the bookstore will probably replace their stolen copy with another one purchased from the publisher. Publishers should promote theft!

The difference is that I'm paying about $4 a month for ESPN even though I watch zero minutes, ever. At least with the other channels I don't watch, I'm paying maybe 25 cents, if that.

I read it on CNN.com two weeks ago. And the NY Times yesterday. AP sent it out on Sunday. So it is out there. Can't speak for TV news, though, as I don't watch TV news. For the reason you cited.

Really? Have you taken a good look at CNN.com lately?

All I know is that I still have my usual 5 moderation points and no matter how many comments I do moderation on the comments' scores don't change and I still have 5 points. This has happens every time I get moderation points, and it doesn't matte if I use Firefox or IE, same result. Is moderation a big prank? Does anybody else have this problem?

Trust is sharing the passwords, for the rare times when it might be needed, and knowing that your trust won't be abused. Oh, and not even having to ask in the first place. I can't imaging being in a marriage for life and not living it this way.

Would that be the Pradeep Principle?

When you do find though, is that the generic programmer you get from Indian development shops are the inexperienced ones. There's a very strong hierarchy in these places (and in India in general) which means that once a dev gets experience, he will expect to be promoted to a more senior supervisor/manager/etc position. Once there, coding is not part of his job description, and from what I've found the guys in these positions quickly start to resist being put back in a coding position.

DDOS = Distributed Delivery of Snakes