...but skynet is finally here!

Ha! Shouldn't that be "striking Eul(er) in mathematics"?

Thang you, thang you, I'll be here all week...

I have a friend whose 14-year-old son spends all his time gaming, like any normal teenager

The definition of "normal" must have changed since when I was growing up...

They kept track of how many a person bought by their credit card.

How do they do that? I thought a retailer cannot store your credit card number past a reasonable processing period.

...and for those of us that listen to 8-bit/chiptune revival music, there's always Press Play On Tape and Monkey Island on real instruments!

For much more retro game music remixes head over to RKO.

Although I completely agree that the extention of copyright to ever-increasing terms is scandalous and that it should be restricted to the original 10-20 years, I don't buy the argument above. Say I build a house today that I rent out and which generates income for me during my lifetime - should my family be denied that income (or even the house itself!) after I die?

Similarly, if a writer publishes a book today, and then dies a year from now, his family should be able to benefit from his work for a reasonable period of time.

Obviously, the house is a tangible asset while a work of art is not (at least, not in the case of books), but you cannot simply state that my descendants shouldn't receive any income from either asset after I die.

I have a cunning plan to work around this problem: only travel at 99.999997% of the speed of light!

It doesn't matter either way. Barring some unknown bug in the SSH implementations (or, even more unlikely, the underlying SSH 2 protocol, or, yet even more unlikely, the under-underlying encryption mechanisms), you can stay logged in or keep re-loging in - both methods should provide no information to an attacker.

Even if there were unknown bugs, you still wouldn't be able to decide: staying logged in gives the attacker more encrypted material to analyze from the same session & keys. Re-loging in every 10 minutes gives them more handshake data.

By the way, I hope that hosts.allow is not the only way you're protecting your servers from the "big bad internet"...

To paraphrase an old saying about IBM:

"Apple iPad: it may not have many features, but at least it's expensive"

Come to think of it, this could be the slogan for a lot of Apple products...

Girl seeking WoW player

From the Apple website on the Magic Mouse:

Magic Mouse functions as a two-button mouse when you enable Secondary Click in System Preferences. Left-handed users can reassign left and right click, as well.

...oh, and Ob. Bash.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Pics or it didn't happen!

Basil Fawlty: Do you remember when we were first manacled together? We used to laugh quite a lot. Sybil Fawlty: Yes, but not at the same time, Basil.