Agreed, except that the property tax will not be lowered if we don't need the money to pay for emergency room visits. The money will just be repurposed by the local government. I would like to repurpose it to paying off debt and saving for future expenses for my household. Selfish, I know.

Hey, now leave Arch Linux out of this!

Where was the show Food Fight created? Not the United States? "My stomach is a black hole!"

You used "werden," which is counter to what the article says. You should have said "Morgen schreibe ich noch einen." Now you are talking about tomorrow using the present tense, which, the author claims, will lead you to act as though the future is now (or something).

Finally, all the greatest hits from They Might Be Giants, Brave Combo, Julieta Venegas, Myron Floren, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Frankie Yankovic, and more could be playable by the millions of geek youth clamoring for them!

Much to my dismay, there are no accordions available that work with Rock Band.

It's pronounced "Cool Whip."

This is the end of an era. I can only hope that his health is not too bad, but I have my concerns.

I always got the feeling my doctor was just googling my symptoms to come up with a diagnosis. Now I guess they won't be hiding it. I just hope that it doesn't make any silly mistakes like prescribing hysterectomies for men.

Just because the protocol is reverse engineered doesn't make it open. I would rather see an open standard become supported or used by Skype/Microsoft.

I just assumed that other countries already required Amazon to collect taxes on purchases (VAT anyone?). I would be very happy to find out that this is not the case. In either case, your argument is valid, though. Higher costs for US operations will be spread across all the business units and the price of everything will go up to compensate.

You do realize that Amazon wouldn't be paying sales tax, right? Amazon's customers would be the ones paying the tax. This would just require Amazon to collect the sales tax, which would effectively increase the price of every one of its products and increase overhead to stay on top of sales tax laws in all 50 states. Requiring Amazon to collect state sales tax would make shopping online more expensive for everyone involved.

This isn't a subsidy for Amazon, it's a subsidy for consumers all over the US.

LastPass Pasword Service may have been Hacked.

This is a good story, but the story isn't that they were definitely hacked. It's entirely possible that the anomalous data transfers they mentioned were caused by internal testing and not properly documented, based on the limited information we have available.

Here is a transcript wherein Steve Gibson talks at length about why LastPass is secure.

LastPass is basically the exact same thing. It's encrypted locally and sent to them AFTER encryption. They don't store the plaintext passwords. The danger is the same either way if a user doesn't use a strong enough password.

English audio for those who don't like reading subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1evfTk58o