They're treating it with decongestants and broncodialors.

Hmm - that is interesting. I figure you could get a likely four tier bunk in perhaps three or four rows. I wouldn't mind being flat and sleeping while I fly.

Screw the aircraft. Take the train. Well, if you live on the eastern seaboard that is. The inside of business class reminds me of what aircraft USED to be like. Wide seating, plenty of leg room even when seats are reclined. Kudos to Amtrak for realizing people want to be comfortable.

I take the Acela occasionally, from South Station in Boston to Providence, RI. Price ranges from $37 to $53 for business class depending on WHEN you buy the ticket. And it reduces a 70 minute commuter rail journey down to 40 minutes. Zoom!

Because I have a USB stick with GParted boot on it that does EVERYTHING and includes HFS, HFS+, NTFS, FAT32, ext2, ext3 and ext4. I think XFS is even in there.

I just love how we're taking the incremental steps to fully autonomous vehicles.

And I'd LOVE to see the specs for the car to car communication. Because I'll lay even money that security was one of the last thoughts of the engineers and that the C2C interface will have direct access to the cars CAN bus or whatever it is GM uses these days. Fun times!

Just download JFFNMS - it's a Net Monitoring system more than capable enough to watch 500+ servers. It can also be configured to do email and text alerting. It monitors CPU, Memory, Disk etc. It's pretty much the open source version of Nagios.

The TI-8x line uses all Z80 derived CPU's. So they're very hackable.

But the other thing about the TI-8x line is if you take a short amount of time you realize you can program the hell out of it. So if for example you're required to memorize formulas, just program them in.

That said - a simple solution to breaking the monopoly would be a rule that during tests all cell phones are in airplane mode. Problem solved.

If you think that's bad check out your natural gas billing. They use this little thing called a therm factor. In essence that factor changes regularly, goes down in the warmer months, back up in the cooler months. So in essence, despite what the industry defenders will say how therm factor is a legitimate practice I counter with absolute bovine effluent - it is a markup and the incumbent utilities have the nerve to actually show the markup disguised as therm factor.

Slartibartfast! I'd wondered where you'd popped off too as Magrathea says they couldn't find you.

Agreed - if you're really intent use a throwaway FRS or MURS radio.

Yes in fact Windows 8 did a face plant at it's introduction. Just look at the interface - did an ADHD sufferer design it? It's awful. I mean Windows has long had a tiling option but that just took it to ridiculous extremes.

Something else to note about Microsoft OS's. Odd numbered versions tend to be the most stable - the even numbered are flaming pieces of crap starting with NT4 and then Vista, and Win 8. XP (5) and Win 7 were ok though.

The way to tame Gnome at least in Ubuntu is to switch back to the 2d version,. The 3d version does have some annoy-o-bugs. And uninstall that piece of crap music player Rhythmbox. I went with Audacious instead.

The only time you have to restart Linux is if you change Kernel or Kernel header files. Otherwise just upgrade and walk away without having to reboot.

Sorry - I cannot tolerate the piece of flaming excrement that is Windows 8. I just went with Ubuntu 14.01 LTS - works well enough for my needs, has all the tools and toys that Windows has and isn't that hard to learn.

That this impacts Fox news in the United States. Hopefully it won't touch the entertainment side as a few shows I like are in fact Fox Network properties.