If it's a PATA drive just say it's broken anyway. You're not really lying...

I just got .40 per GB on Black Friday on a 250GB drive ($99).

The first round of system updates will take you to 40GB easy. A 32 GB SSD is practically worthless.

I stuck a brand new 840 into an old Asus eeePC netbook (the original 9" with the hard drive). It's very usable like this and I'm using it as a file server.

The Supreme Court recently overruled this in the US. Now you see many more businesses (especially gas stations) giving a cash discount.

You mean like to highlight a well-written, popular piece of code authored mainly by a female... Instead of throwing a fit over a non-sexist language documentation change.

Considering both Apple and Amazon sell unprotected music and have for almost a decade now, and they have record sales every year, I'd say the fear is overblown. Buying a song for .99 is convenient compared to piracy.

Well, one would hope that if the community sees that this works, they may next report the dirty cops, hoping that the DAs take notice.

Moneyball is a sports metaphor where you don't get the flashy big-name players that don't really do anything. You get the unknown, overlooked players for cheap that just know how to win. You do this by using different stats than are typically used by most other teams. For instance, the Oakland A's were big on on-base percentage and recently the LA Kings are big into Corsi (shots attempted differences when a player is on the ice, in other words, puck control).

The "Moneyball" aspect of this is that they are turning DA work on its head. Instead of spreading their resources way too thin and throwing huge sentences at minor drug possession, they are giving them minor plea deals and saving the big guns for the people who the communities are reporting are the troublemakers. By taking out the troublemakers, it reduces the pressure on others to join them in crime, so it results in less crime total.

This is fantastic and should be a model for other communities.

Except in areas with lead pipes... Maybe they don't get the Cosby Show in areas with lead pipes...?

I am convinced that my 14-year-old daughter could be an excellent programmer. She has the right mind for it, she hates dressing up, she's a bit of a loner, all good traits for a programmer. But she really hasn't shown any interest. In fact, right now it looks like "missionary to Japan" is her most likely outcome. And that's fine with me. It's her life. Why should I care? I just want her to do what makes her happy.

Oh, yeah, there are NO programming jobs available...

Just move to California. Every company is looking for 5 programmers.

Hilarious in light of the recent "Barbie is a Computer Engineer" book. Somebody needs to mod this up.

It tells you she's fat and lazy and sits around watching soaps and eating bon bons, doesn't it?

If Americans drive twice as far as Germans every day, it would make sense that twice as many people would die.