I guess after four years you'll be ready for a new phone anyway. Let's see...in the book they were programmed to die as a failsafe. In the movie, it was a technological/biological limitation...wonder which plot they'll follow. And there are three versions of the movie. This could get confusing.

it turns out that the aliens have a cure for cancer.

From the title, I thought it exposed the social anxiety and fears of users (which in many cases it might end up doing, but that's not what the original post is about).

Just have them send you a pdf.

http://www.otherinbox.com/

These positions are never officially called czars. That's just a name the media gives them.

Is this really much worse than the drugs we give them for "ADD"?

I think it depends on if the person is trying to sound smart "Hey, I know what a hard drive is" or is just describing the interaction point with the computer. Those who aren't trying to sound smart say things like "My mouse is broken" (esp. on old macs that would freeze up). Rational in a way...they move and click the mouse and the pointer doesn't move. Must be a broken mouse, right? I've also heard "My monitor is broken" for a computer that wouldn't boot. But that's all to be expected. Just smile and nod and ask the right diagnostic questions. That's your job, after all.

Unless that's not the real location and he just said it was to throw off the evildoers...and his previous gaffes were just setups to make this fake one seem more plausible. Not that I believe it, but hey, it's possible.

This weekend I had poor 2nd row seats which made it difficult to take in everything that was happening on the screen. I usually prefer "dull" indie films, but when something is extremely well done, I like it no matter what the genre. A plot AND good action scenes. My one criticism would be that the Nero character should have had more depth. I could see the scenes that explained him ending up on the cutting room floor to make the movie fit into a certain length. Maybe there will be a director's cut.

Or maybe "Feedlot flu"

And for all that, the reviewer can't manage to get the url right (he left the .com off: http://www.randsinrepose/ instead of http://www.randsinrepose.com./

Nevermind the racism thing, comparing Bush to a chimp is insulting to chimps.

That should be of at least some benefit for the tech job market here in Austin.