One of the best theories I've ever heard about the Bond movies is that it's not meant as a "reboot" when they switch actors: "James Bond" is actually a code name (like "M") and it's a different agent taking over each time. Of course, that still means it should have been Brosnan rather than Craig in Goldeneye.

Gotta love the creativity that goes into these names. Too bad they stopped with the previous naming pattern, I was waiting for the "Fucking Enormously Huge Array".

How do they project statistics like that? I'm trying to imagine what kind of sample size you'd need to represent, well, everything in the universe.

"To recharge, stare directly into sun."

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I think you might be overreacting a bit.

Fair point, but what if Bob is accessing his own, personal bank account from home?

Read the article a little more closely; it specifies an infection via cross-site scripting, not a download. I don't think he can be considered an "idiot" for not researching every search engine listing for reliability before visiting the site.

See point 2

Again, I don't think it qualifies someone as an "idiot" if they don't do a complete system security review every time their browser crashes.

That's not necessarily a red flag, maybe his bank rechecks this periodically; I doubt, in that case, that most people would keep the schedule of these checks handy to sniff out any suspicious deviations.

Again see point 2; Companies aren't the only ones with bank accounts.

I'm reminded of the old example: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse." No spellchecker is going to catch it if you forget to capitalize...

Ummm... why not indeed?

Couldn't agree more. Look at some of the concept screens for Braid, as compared with the final product. Without the incredible atmosphere that game would have been neat but not quite as magical.

Lots of people have pointed out that this kind of power would be more expensive that just getting plain old solar from a desert somewhere, but I think an important point has been overlooked. This kind of system might still function in the face of several different kind of "extinction level events": asteroid collision, supervolcano eruption, or even a "nuclear winter"; my understanding is that this would still provide power if the atmosphere suddenly became more opaque to sunlight.

You had a farm? Luxury. We were so poor we had to live in a hole in the road! And every day, we'd get up at 4:30, clean the hole, and then work at the mill for 16 hours, and when we got home out father would beat us with a rusty spade.

Ironic that you would use that example, considering that the voice of KIT was not only done by a human but was, in fact, the best actor on the show.

(Runs from angry crowd of Hasselhoff fans)

They can delay that Year by releasing Windows as freeware or make a Linux port.

What do you mean? Windows already is freeware! It came for free on my new computer! [/total cluelessness]

I totally agree, but even the stuff you mentioned, which I also grew up with, pales in comparison to the children of yesteryear. My dad had a .22 rifle when he was in his early teens, as did many of his friends, which they used to take out and shoot cans with totally unsupervised.