"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."

Relevant smbc: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2881#comic

I am the "IT person" at my job. During the past year, I have told everybody asking advice for a new phone to purchase to get an Android based 4G device as all Apple products are still stuck on 3G. I have found that Apple's marketing department has done a good job as many people think that iPhone 4G is a 4G device, even though it is not. When Apple releases a true 4G device, Samsung is going to sue the shit out of them.

During the liftime of one of my servers, I have to maintain an outdated Internet browser on at least one vm (not on the same server) just to interact with the raid card to monitor hard drive status.

DL360 is a rackmount HP server, not a laptop.

Detroit has an area of 141 square miles. It is more area than Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston combined.

I remember when ISPs provided free unlimited newsgroup access. Then they offered free newsgroup access through a third party with a data usage cap. Then they cut off free newsgroups altogether. Now there is something completely out of their control on the general Internet that they are trying to block access to. So much for the old wild west freedom of the Internet. Business and government interests are all so ready to curtail total freedom of information. I see a dark future full of censorship and paywalls.

I believe that the AV vendors should already be protecting against virii that attack against not-fully-patched Windows systems. That seems to be the primary purpose of AV.

I would argue that breast cancer receives disproportionate "newstime and general attention" compared to other types of cancer such as prostate cancer or skin cancer.

I live in Michigan. My car was assembled in Michigan less than 50 miles away from me. I support my local products such as Better Made chips and Faygo pop, and I support local Michigan stores. As long as we are all tooting our horn here. Sorry about that last part, but I do agree that everybody should be buying more locally made products that don't need to be shipped halfway across the world.

My mom woke me up when the first plane hit. I called her a liar and said that I did not believe her and I was going back to sleep. She came in minutes later to say another plane hit the other tower and something was going on with the pentagon. I told her I still did not believe her, but was willing to get up to have a look at the TV to prove her wrong before I went back to bed. I did not go back to bed. The incident forever touched me and changed my life.

They should give away free XBox points. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Live/MicrosoftPoints Heck, throw in an XBox too.

If you think your arm is going to fall off from a 5 pound laptop, then you have bigger problems to be concerned about.

"Automating the purchase of tickets so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is now illegal hacking and will get one charged with wire fraud?"

Meanwhile, on wall street, automating the purchase of stocks and bonds so that you're able to purchase them faster than other people is totally legal.