The virginity in this one is strong.

...Adobe has released a letter entitled "Thoughts on Apple Maps."

I have a love/hate relationship with Slashdot. One thing is for sure: I'm tired of all the *nix fan boys who find every possible way to smear Microsoft. Here are a few alternative titles, just to irk the haters:

"Microsoft wisely saves $140,000 by simply using electricity."

"Microsoft deliberately uses electricity to avoid ridiculous fine."

"Microsoft forces utility board to reduce ludicrous fine by $10,000."

"Microsoft exposes power company's pollution-inducing practices."

...just pretend. I'm pretty sure eBay and Yahoo won't even notice.

I wonder if they factored accidental pinning into their numbers. I frequently pin windows that I actually intended to close (and it's annoying).

I switched to Chrome after giving up hope that this bug would ever be fixed. Mozilla has done nothing but point fingers at Adobe (but this bug doesn't exist in Chrome or IE with the debug Flash Player).

I got this too. So that's what I would improve: Not wasting my time with a survey that results in a 503 error.

...the entire planet is made up of liquid mercury! And maybe liquid mercury on Mercury is blueish!

I'm 20 years younger than this self-proclaimed cranky old man, but I say fight for the chance to be a programmer if that's where your passion truly is! Turn off the TV, get by on less sleep, cut back on social events, and spend every spare minute working on projects that help you thoroughly learn the programming language you're passionate about.

In short, become an expert at whatever you want to do. And don't listen to anyone who says you can't do it.

I'm sorry ... but If you're dumb enough to believe that you should subject your computer to steam AND dumb enough to believe that doing it naked in the shower is your only option -- as opposed to hitting your computer with a blast of steam from that button on your iron, or holding your computer next to your pot of brewing tea -- then you deserve what you got.

It's all Geek Squad's fault. The very definition of geek was tainted the moment they started bundling their services at Best Buy.

Even if what you surmise is correct, his sentence structure is still abysmal. At the very least, he should have separated the instances of "to" for clarity:

"Schools are the one place on Earth to which people look to fix what is wrong with society."

However, this sentence is still really weak. He could deliver a lot more impact by removing the dramatic reference to our planet and saying something like: "We depend on schools to educate our youth and prepare them to solve the problems society has created." Then again, maybe his feeble letter is an ingenious attempt at demonstrating just how lacking our schools truly are.

The "super" says:

Schools are the one place on Earth that people look to to “fix” what is wrong with society

Really? We look to to schools to to fix the problems with with society?

...I was on vacation the first week in May, and I didn't do JACK except watch two entire seasons of The Office and a few dozen movies. It really was amazing how much Netflix I watched. I almost need another vacation from how much work I did with the remote control in one hand and fattening food in the other.

My first thought when I read this was that it was neat but not all that useful... then I saw I could block Experts-Exchange!

That was my first thought as well, and I have promptly blocked them.

Too bad you have to click a link and go back in order to block. I almost always middle-click links to open them in new tabs.