Yes.

The moment you believe securing your system is not an issue, that's exactly when it becomes an issue.

As Windows and Mac user, I don't trust either of my systems to be any more secure out-of-the-box than I can throw them. You don't get to ignore any responsibility for your system's security and have the privilege of being a link-clicking blind-downloader simply because you picked the "more secure" computer.

I had a distaste for the movie prior to seeing it, but that was because whenever I asked someone who had been raving about it for details on the plot, they could only tell me how "pretty" or "awesome" everything was. I didn't make fun of it (because how can I make fun of it if I haven't seen the source material outside of a 90 second trailer?) but I was vocal in my disinterest in it simply because no one I knew could give me two sentences worth of story description.

This weekend, when my wife and I needed to get out for a little bit, we gambled and saw it. To my surprise, I didn't hate it. In fact I enjoyed it. I wouldn't say it's the best movie of the year or going to sweep the Academy Awards like I've heard from some, but it was very well done.

Don't get me wrong, I still criticize the movie. Specifically the design of some of the wildlife (some of the designs just seemed to vary from impractical to unnecessary). There were some things that just seemed "alien for the sake of alien".

Yes, it's a "going native" film like Dances with Wolves (even Cameron said that was part of his inspiration) but it really does stand on it's own.

I believe the GP meant to imply that proclaiming oneself as Catholic and speaking out against censorship could somehow mark one a hypocrite. I assume the anticipated knee-jerk reaction would consist of "He says he's a Catholic, but he doesn't want your children to be safe on the Internet" or something along those lines. I suppose the natural response would be "The responsibility falls to the parent, not the Government", though that doesn't win over as many voters as one would like.

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Yikes. I hope he wasn't posting from a Fios connection.

I got the Kingston v-series 64M for around $120--I think it's only rated around 100MB. Still feels a lot faster, especially after boot-up.

Yes. To bad there isn't a Google Shopping version of lmgtfy.com

UNIX is simple, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

The website looks like it was put together in a matter of minutes. I'm having "Netscape Composer" flashbacks.

I clicked "Media". I stopped looking for information when I saw the picture of the old man "researching" Megan Fox.

C'mon. This is China. It's not like you can just walk to a street corner and get a copy of XP.

I truly believe it was more 50-50 than either creator would have liked to believe. Yes, Kirby and Lee had wonderful joint projects. The Fourth World did not take off as well as expected (but was still pretty darn good). On the other hand, "Who outside of comics..." has heard of Stan Lee's "Just Imagine" or "Ravage 2099".

Most times, Stan's method of "writing" was letting the artist dictate what happened on the pages and going back and writing the dialogue to fit the scene, maybe giving one or two plot points. Anything he actually tried to write completely by himself was horrible.

Need a mistrial? There's an app for that.

Lord help us if Larry Clark gets to make that decision.

I was actually thinking about this problem this morning. Pay the journalists directly. Shit, if a good journalist (say Hersh) could get a tenth of the New York times over one million subscribers to pay him a dollar a year, that's a livable income, even if he's paying for travel and an editor. Publishers are only required to amalgamate payments and cut cheques.

I don't believe the OP was referring to individual posters, so much as the system in general.

Let's face it, Twitter is still fairly new, the media is trying to embrace it, which makes it trendy to a degree. News organizations like CNN and MSNBC utilize it, but that won't necessarily secure it's popularity in the long-run.

I remember when LiveJournal was "the thing to do". After that it was MySpace. Then it was FaceBook. Somewhere after or between that it was video blogs on YouTube.

Twitter's popularity is eventually going to level-off. It's not going to remain the focal point of the media. As soon as Twitter is made profitable, Twitter is going to refocus on generating profit. No one knows what affect that will have, but people are fickle about their Internet. Something changes on their site and they don't like it.

I don't think Twitter is going away. I do think it will lose a lot of steam and settle into it's own nice little corner of the Internet, becoming just another method of communication rather than the heavily-promoted one we see now.

That's the downside?