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Did they reboot the core router? Might want to leave it off for a few days so it won't get fried. Otherwise, no one will notice the internet being down except the Jong-Un children, who are trying to download torrents of "the interview".

Slashdot has to post lots of articles everyday to keep their karma up and their ads paying out!

Taiwan is China. China is the '"People's" republic of verbosity in the land that people including geography and history call china and is known a china'

When I read "lock in syndrome" I was expecting a story about phb only going with non-fud technologies, and are locked-in to ab^H^Husing it My condolences.

I've watched www.google.com/voice versus a cdma phone versus a gsm phone receiving a text message that was simultaneously sent to all three, and the Google Voice website showed up first, then the GSM phone, then the CDMA phone about two second after the GSM phone.

Anyone else find Sheryl Sandberg boring? Seriously, come up with some new and interesting technology. All she ever says is "women women women blah blah blah..." and I'm all for extreme fairness: the best person to do a job is the best D*MN person to do the job! To HELL with all this "fit in with the corporate culture", that's discriminatory!

Install classicshell on it. Heck, I install classicshell on windows 7, just because it's more responsive than the native shell.

It's a great site. I miss seeing it in the search results. It's like Yahoo Answers except the people are much more intelligent, the creme de la creme of the web. I wish Google had a way of "voting up" websites such as metafilter in my personalized results.

There already is such a place, it's called New Orleans, Louisiana! zing!

Also why target the stars rather than the company that created it?

Perhaps you drop the bomb in the water where everyone can see it explode. You demonstrate the power of the atomic age without using it.

Hmmm. They could have dropped them in the water to prove the superiority. It would have destroyed fish for decades, but, as Kurdt Cobain says "fish don't have feelings"

Just sign in and disable those features. Or I believe that you can disable them when you're logged out.

I'd like to see a lawsuite concerning crawling information in robots.txt. I don't think it would stand up, it's a voluntary, community-created standard. It's a polite way of saying "this is dynamic information or private". If it's private, then don't make it public! The first things hackers and pentesters do is traverse robots.txt