They don't have free phones where you live? USA FTW

Either this is some attempt at ironic humor or you're fooling yourself. Which is it?

With iOS, you are a criminal for modifying your own property.

Yes, all those people going to prison over it is a tragedy pure and simple.

First known indication of knowledge of the relation for integer-sided triangles

Integers using what units? The prof never says. He just says the lengths. He might as well say "Today I walked a nice even 6."

Dealership may be mandatory in USA but, AFAIK that's not the case in Europe but, still, automakers go with the dealership model here also.

Don't go muddying the issue with pesky facts. Stick to the rants, please.

1. The rotary dialing of a telephone
2. The bell on a cash register
3. "old style" police sirens
4. A baseball card in the spokes of a bicycle
5. The clunk-clunk-clunk of a mechanical TV tuner
6. Tubes warming up
7. The unmistakable clinking of glass milk bottles being delivered
8. The "time at the tone" recording

Why bother even using HTML? Can't they just fax me a copy of the content?

Back in the mid 90's I was working for a small company that had a marketing director who, when he saw something on the "world wide web" that he thought would be useful to us, would actually print it out and fax it to us.
And then later he hired someone to make up some images for the web site. He called me up and asked what was the best way to get it to me? Which courier service? I said "Can't you email them?" "Oh no," he said. "I want to make sure you get them."

Anyway, I'm getting sick of hearing the word "algorithms" used as it seems to be in the movies a lot lately.

I once came up with an algorithm that wasn't very good, so I just commanded the computer to "Enhance!", and it got much better.

This isn't amateur hour, guys - there's real money at stake here.

People make mistakes every day of their lives. We always have, we always will. It's how we learn what not to do. It's just that almost all mistakes are harmless... except on the internet. There it's like living in a minefield. Make a bad step and boom. It's not a question of amateur hour, it's a question of being human.

"Nobody will ever need more than 2 digits for a year, so the crazies suggesting years be represented by 4 digits are just that - crazy."

Even the people who knew it would be an issue still used two digits. Resources were extremely constrained. It wasn't worth spending all of that for a problem that would happen decades later. I used to write complete programs that fit in 8K.