Littoral. Awesome.

I would LOVE it if every single story about every penny spent by the US Gov't started out with that phrase: "Despite massive budget deficits,..."

Does it really only take 0.000004 months to learn better scripting skills? I guess it might, for all I know. I haven't written a line of code in many, many moons. And notice how I learned how to use blockquote! Another 0.000004 months put to good use!

I wasted 0.000004 months figuring that out. I was about to waste 0.000009 more months figuring out what I could have done with 10 seconds that could have been so much more useful, but I'm burning daylight.

Kudos to Amazon for trying to save their customers' money. And isn't this the states' fault anyway? They wrote the crappy tax code, didn't they?

What's that flash at about 6:32 or 6:33? Subliminal messages!

Try Dell (where I got mine) or Amazon. It'll likely be cheaper anyway. Or eBay.

Is it important that this wasn't a "leak"? This dingdong who leaves his phone out was not risking anything to get the information out there. He was a dumdum who left his phone at a bar after getting too loaded and showing it off to some honeys. Why is it so important to protect his identity? But they do seem to be protecting the identity of the true leaker, the guy who found the phone, realized what he had, and gave it to the news outlet that would be best suited for publishing.

That's high latency.

Can someone please tell me what things like that damn suitability matrix have to do with suitability to work? Such as sexual orientation, traffic tickets, bad checks, eviction, incest, and bestiality have to do with ability to Science?

Just in case someone missed calmofthestorm's sarcasm, the suitability matrix he refers to (and the whole idea of background checks) has nothing to do with Science, and everything to do with trustworthiness.

Crap. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude

Here's a cool story:

It's interesting that the Luftwaffe was largely incapable of good reconnaissance at this time, so the bulk of the benefit came from radio traffic and double agents.

Dan Quayle, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton were in a Spelling Bee. Surprisingly, Quayle won! The word was 'harass.' Quayle was the only one who knew it was 1 word.

You have overused commas her.

1. This is ambiguous. Is 'overused' intended as a past participle (You've overused the commas.) or as an adjective (You have commas and they're overused.)? Plus there's the feminine possessive at the end. No doubt that error was merely a typo: an imperfection due to your haste to point out imperfections.

2. You may want to look into the usage of double quotes vs. single quotes when quoting text or singling out key terms.

3. Also note that this is somewhat subjective and dependent on where you live in the English-speaking world.