There's no doubt that the car is expensive, but I have seen plenty of posts from other people that have owned a Model S that come across far less douchey and aren't as anxious to tout how much money they have.

Don't even get me started! My driver hates the way the Model S handles and it's horrible at towing the horse trailer to all my dressage competitions. And the sun glare on the in-dash touchscreen combined with the glare on my monocle prevents me from using the in-dash call system to tell my financial planner which Fortune 500 companies I plan on buying this week! I mean, who would drive this POS? I would offer mine to some poor family in a third-world country, but I wouldn't want to have to pay to have it shipped back after they refused it for being so deplorably pedestrian.

So five weeks is how long it takes for ISPs to finish celebrating their court-ordered victory over network neutrality and then extorting content providers into higher fees under the threat of purposely degrading their own users' connections to that content provider. And just think of how much money Comcast will get the next time they extort Netflix once they own all of Time Warner's customers.

The FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler, promised to uphold network neutrality by reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on a "case-by-case" basis if they misbehaved. Well, Mr. Wheeler, I can't think of a bigger misbehavior than this. So do what you promised or publicly admit you were simply making empty promises.

I was occasionally having problems accessing YouTube videos over my FIOS connection. I had 75 Mbps down, but YouTube videos sometimes failed to play after about 5% of the video had downloaded or they would only download at 144p (it reminded me of RealVideo from the 90s). I read reports from other users that showed up to 50% packet loss over FIOS to YouTube servers. Those users also reported that if they VPNed into their work network, they were able to view YouTube videos just fine. That was the straw that broke the camel's back and I switched to Comcast and cut the television cord. While their service isn't quite as good, I got a really good deal. The only thing that annoys me is that when I VPN into work, my connection goes from 30 Mbps to 750 Kbps. Since I primarily use the command line, that is tolerable, but it does piss me off that this wasn't well-communicated to me before I signed up.

The NSA does not necessarily want you to be insecure. As a matter of fact, I have downloaded documents from their web site with tips on how to configure my OSes to be more secure (and I don't recall any of the tips requiring me to install any additional software, which definitely would have raised a red flag). It is in the best interest of the NSA that the computers that protect sensitive data in all public and private sectors be secure from outside threats. With that said, it is also in the NSA's interest to be able to access as much data from these same machines as they can possibly gather. Therefore, they walk a tight line where it's best when everyone's security is loose enough that the NSA can get in, but tight enough to keep less sophisticated groups out. Based on systems such as BULLRUN, it seems that the NSA has become more concerned with gaining access for themselves over encouraging tight security.

And yet it is a terrible violation of Fitt's Law, especially on large high-res monitors and multi-monitor setups. Not to mention that accessing the menu of a non-focused app requires dragging the mouse over to that window or dock icon to click for focus and then dragging the mouse all the way up to the menu bar and then back down to the window to resume work. I should install a mouse-odometer app on my Mac and my Linux box just to see how much extra movement Mac OS requires. After years of working with all three major OSes, Mac OS has quickly become one of my least favorite.

How about a system that lets the artists themselves opt in (bypassing ASSCAP) for a reasonable set of royalties. The artists would get more money than the record companies give them for their streamed music, the streaming companies would pay less in royalties, and the tyRIAAnosaurus rex can take another step towards its destiny.

I'm sure that Target will address the issue by firing all of the management that brushed off the security researcher's concerns and will promote that security researcher to the head of a new task forced aimed at increasing their security and give him a huge pay increase (and maybe a pony).

Spoken like a true Manager, and not a true Engineer.

I happen to be one of the engineers who would rather continue with engineering than take a promotion to manager, but I'm not naive enough to think that every other good engineer would make the same decision as me.

I know of several managers who were excellent engineers before they were promoted and have made excellent managers as well. This guy is just projecting his own personal view onto the rest of the world. His argument that good engineers won't accept a promotion is complete bullshit since there are many good engineers who would enjoy the increased pay and/or power. In general, money and power are the ultimate motivators, even if it isn't the case for this author.

For a little while, I was afraid that Microsoft would choose someone from outside of their own toxic corporate culture and regain at least a little bit of the dominance they once had. Now that it seems likely they will choose someone who has been drinking the Microsoft KoolAid for several decades, I am suddenly much less worried. Then again, these "leaks" could just be schemes from the board to get the press, business writers, and public at large to critique each candidate for them like one giant focus group.

Looks like it's time for a coupe

Would you care to elaborate rather than just throw out insults?

And Google could have spent far less than $1.56B to lobby for the destruction of software patents that are costing manufacturers of Android devices billions of dollars in court, settlement, and licensing fees. But Google would rather talk out of both sides of their ass and say that they oppose software patents while taking no serious actions to work toward ending them.

Samsung Ecogreens are manufactured by Seagate. Both of these drives that I have owned failed during the warranty period and after all the time I have spent reinstalling OSes and apps, I will never use another Seagate-manufactured drive again - it's just not worth my time for reinstalls.