Once you understand how frail and exposed they are, you should learn how to cook them. They are delicious!

I don't know about you, but I have no intention of letting google know what I'm doing on a day to day basis. So no, I won't try Google Keep.

Yes, you could buy an Intel SSD for twice the cost of one without power loss protection. Or, you could buy a UPS for a mere $43, and get protection not just for the SSD, but for all the other components, as well as non-disk related software. So why would I care about power loss protection in the hard drive again?

That's a bit harsh, but perhaps more manly. These sissies are missing their chance to freeze to death studying global warming; how awesome that would have been! Back in the days of real men like Scott and Amundsen, if you got stuck in the ice, you stayed stuck in the ice until summer. These days people are such wimps; a little ice on the hull and they call for an icebreaker, "oh please save our poor souls! We did not bring any food or warm clothes, but don't hold that against us - we're adventurers!"

"Unspecified" simply means that the C++ standards committee did not have the balls to specify it. Any compiler still have to follow the expectations of the programmers that use it, and one such expectation is that the compiler is not to rearrange data structures. Any compiler that does, will get dropped faster than a hot potato, standard or no standard.

Gee, I wonder why. He bought a $2700 CPU and two $3400 graphics cards. Was that really necessary? Why not try to benchmark what you do on a cheaper combination first? You just might find that a $300 CPU and a $500 GPU would be adequate.

The reason is the same for all web pages, and it is that the boss wants it to look that way. You can be the best web designer in the world and build the most beautiful, accessible, and usable sites in existence, but when the boss says "I think a picture of a flying bird would look good here, don't you?" you always end up saying "yes sir!", because, after all, the job market still sucks and he can get a dozen just like you for half the price in an hour.

On every motherboard I've owned the onboard audio always picked up noise from unrelated CPU, or maybe GPU, activity. Moving the mouse, opening a menu, and just typing would create random clicks and buzzes from the speakers. And, naturally, there was the white noise, no doubt from the poor quality hardware. The only way I could get sound to work well is with a discrete sound card.

Dear developers: please stop playing in Apple's garden and leave it to its natural fate of weeds and cobwebs.

You will certainly notice the robot uprising the next time you try to apply for a low-skill job that a robot can do. That's a lot of jobs. The only ones that are still done by humans are domestic service occupations. A robot can't fix your toilet yet. However, this being a down economy, any average person has little money and does everything he can to avoid buying any services, by, for instance, fixing the toilet himself, cleaning the house himself, and mowing his own lawn after fixing his own lawnmower. I predict repairmen will be in less demand as the depression progresses, and the final occupations exclusive to humans will nearly disappear.

So, are you now working on a flying coffee maker?

It means I can finally synthesize some Kryptonite! Superman, all your base will be mine soon! Bwahahahahaha

GitHub is a place for code, not political activism. If your project is more the latter than the former, it deserves to be removed. Put it on your own blog instead.

> it offers no great advantages over BTC

At present it offers the great advantage of being worth mining. With bitcoin, the cost of production already exceeds value of the result, so there is no way to get rich quick. With litecoin there is. Until, that is, somebody comes up with yet another supercoin that everyone will start mining in hopes of a quick profit.

You could at least get your talking points from somewhere that at least updates them. Thiomersal is gone from all childhood vaccines except flu, and even then it's only in the multidose vials.

Then get your talking points straight. When somebody has concerns about thiomersal in the vaccine and the effect it may have on his child, stop yelling at him and calling him ignorant. Simply explain that the vaccine his child will receive will have no thiomersal in it. Is it so bloody difficult? Instead we get self-righteous doctors who assume that anybody that has this concern must be some kind of an idiot. Is it any wonder people start avoiding these jackasses and not vaccinating their kids? Fix the attitude, and vaccinations will increase.

And guess what? The removal hasn't done anything to autism rates or anything else.

That's irrelevant. The issue is that doctors ignore the concerns of the patient and want to be treated as infallible. If the patient does not want thimerosal, he should have the option not to get it. The doctors have no bloody right to force it upon him.