If you start a Stupid Crap website, I'll visit it. Every time a friend or acquaintance asks me what they think about the phone they're thinking of buying, I'll direct them there. Every time someone comes to me and says, "Look at my sweet new Statosphere 3!" I'll say, "I don't know, man. I was looking at StupidPhoneBugCrap.com and how do you like your calendar?" and then I will encourage them to take the phone back. That's the free market at work. Now if I can beat you to the punch and create such a website, I'll make the money and you won't. Thanks for the idea, dummy!

I thought the story was going to be about slashdot comments.

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.