And even though your last backup is from August, this will still constrain the number of files you potentially have to eyeball.

In fact, it could be worse -- MS is paying for the equipment. Most clothing retailers require employees to wear the company's clothes while at work and to purchase said clothing with their own money (discounted, of course).

I didn't read about that, but I know I won't like the result of googling "Anonymous Child Porn."

Perhaps GP was referring to this cap Sprint instituted around October or November of 2011 on tablets, hot spots, and tethered mobile phones. Still unlimited data for untethered phones (I think).

From the announcement on Sprint's website:

We could call it the metric week, and every country but the US could switch to it. Sweet.

I don't have 9/10 of a penny either, but that hasn't stopped any gas stations from using prices like "$3.49 9/10" and then charging me the rounded amount.

Funny, when AT&T first offered GSM service (around 1999 or 2000), they gave me so many free perks (minutes, upgrades, etc.) for staying with them through their growing pains that it was impossible for me to imagine leaving. I ended up leaving them because somewhere during the AT&T->Cingular->AT&T shenanigans, they'd essentially done a 180 with regard to how they treat their customers. Now I'm with Sprint and have few, if any complaints.

And robots never run amok.

Yes and no. Well written code tells fellow developers on the project how something works and shouldn't require a lot (if any documentation). However, if I'm using someone else's code I don't always want to have to read through it to figure out what it does. Documentation (like Javadoc) should be used to explain what the code does (without getting into the details of how). In some cases, a few real world examples may be enough.

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This is my problem with many open source projects. Usually the only way to use it in your own project is to open up their source code and start reading through it. And if there is any documentation, it's frequently woefully lacking and/or out of date. And tweaking their sample code doing "trial and error development" sucks.
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I agree that thinking about letter shapes is not what I want to do while typing -- maybe that works for people that write all the time, but not me. I'd prefer the letters be grouped by sound. Not sure how, but certainly all of the vowels would be on 1 "schwa" key.

I have an expectation of privacy in my backyard. I have a 7 foot high privacy fence and trees which prevent/block views from my neighbors' 2nd floor windows. A drone flying above my house can easily look into my private backyard. So could a manned vehicle, I realize, but unless the FBI, local cops, etc. are using a U2 or something similar, I assume I'd know they're there visually or audibly. Drones can be much smaller, quieter, and even look like a bird.

I disagree. Usually "nothing" would have been better. The compromise rarely, if ever, fixes the original issue and just creates new loopholes, issues, etc. that need to be patched. One of the reasons we're in the mess we're in is not because Congress cannot agree on legislation it's that they agree too often on bad legislation.

Sprint customers can use the Verizon network. So, why use Verizon?

I confirmed this the hard way while trying to activate my iPhone with Sprint w/o WiFi. I had 3+ bars and couldn't get the damn thing to activate until I accidentally wandered into the 1 cubic foot of space where I could get Sprint's signal.

Meh, they'd prefer to overpay Northrop or Lockheed (or similar) to build it. In turn, they will end up subcontracting it out to Huawei. All the expense of doing it ourselves with the value add of the complete insecurity of having had China do it.