I'd wager I spend less time reading /. than virtually any MMORPG player spends in their game...

Read a book. Go out with some friends. Meet your neighbours.

... undeniable evidence that Earth is 6,000 years old and Noah had baby dinosaurs on the Ark.

Their data is sent in the clear. Time to fill their logs with the idea that I watch Golden Girls 24x7.

I want to print a 3D model of Washington's wooden teeth and put them in my RealDoll!

The article mentions "Dark Friday" but links to a wiki page called "Black Friday". What is that about? (I know about Black Friday in the US, just not sure why the Dark Friday bit)

Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
"Don't Copy That Floppy"
"Home Taping is Killing Music"
"When You Download Movies, You're Sucking Satan's Most Unholy of Cocks"

up north, water freezes when it gets below 32F.

Come to Canada, this far north water freezes at 0C!

There is a good app called Divide for iOS and Android. Forms a nice, separate spot for all your work stuff (mail, calendars, contacts, etc.)

Sorry, man. Google Translate can't parse Tard.

On an iOS device go to Settings->Privacy->Advertising and there is a setting labelled "Limit Ad Tracking" which you can enable or disable.

I don't think Facebook or Google offer that.

Put the cash on the table for an iPhone or iPad: your deal is done. Get "free" Facebook, Google, etc. and your private information is how they make their money.

I'm happier paying up front and leaving the store with no parasites attached to me.

I read the headline as a this new card delivering 290 times the performance of something else.

Sorry, forgot to add: I also checked similar services some time ago and after much playing around decided on SpiderOak. I pay for 200 GB with them and am quite happy.

SpiderOak is quite decent. It's not the fastest at syncing, but their compression and deduplication works very well.

They claim zero-knowledge, have clients for Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android. You get 2 GB for free, give it a shot!