It's interesting. The country that kept cutting Cuba's internet access by "accidentally" forgetting to add the submarine cable that provides Cuba's link to the world from the No Anchorage maps is now criticizing Cuba for cutting the cable themselves.

I wish people would stop saying "toxic chemicals". Toxicity is a property of dose, not something a substance is or is not. At the volume used in fracking, you could call water toxic, so using toxic as a descriptor is misleading.

You mean Calvin's dad was right? Wind is just "Trees Sneezing"?

I worked tech support for a stationary company that wanted to expand into computers. It was a family business, with the father giving a department to each of his kids. They were not a 'loving family unit'. Each department was a kingdom, and territory was fought over tooth and nail. So to order a computer for someone, I would have to order the base unit from the computer department. Any additional hardware like video cards and mice through the service department, and any software through the stationary department, which would only put in one order per month, no matter what. And naturally, if it took a whole month for the entire computer to get assembled, it was my fault.

I used to service Icon II's which used a primitive form of QNX. When the hard drive filled up, it would start deleting old files. In a school, the oldest unmodified file was usually the master password file. Since these systems didn't have a built in root login, this means they were self bricking.

So you're saying Microsoft products are a 0-day virus?

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Develop meaningful bugs.

Does this mean that Hollywood will have to find a replacement for mercury switches in movie plots that include mad bombers?

I wonder if a Farraday cage would block the effect of the scanner, and if so, how long it will be before someone sews x-ray blocking mesh into some clothes for sale, like the AACS Encryption key T-shirt I have in the closet ;)

I can remember reading a study about half a year ago that concluded that low heat output lightbulbs are only energy efficient in areas where the climate is warm in the winter months. The heat released in the winter is more energy efficient (only very slightly but still it's on the plus side) than running a low heat light bulb (LED, CF) and generating the lost head by traditional methods (electric heat, heating oil, natural gas, etc). It might be more "green" to just switch light bulbs with the season.

It's amazing. 100% of the houses of all "school shooters" contain toothpaste. Yet nobody has demanded that toothpaste be banned because it causes school shootings.

But do they have Frickin lasers strapped to their heads?

I never said the spelling was wrong. Just that using a dictionary that excluded potential variations in spelling was wrong.