My sister in law worked on the Canadarm 2. She said they used the good old Intel 386 to control its functions for reliability reasons.

The RIAA sucks, but I still pay for my music, at least some of it...by buying vinyl. Mmm, delicious records and analogue sound.

I make no claims about being a superior person but I know that I am having a superior computational experience versus the guy next to me with an Acer laptop running Vista. Credit goes 100% to the glowing logo.

It was worth the Apple tax and I would be overjoyed to continue to pay that tax so that I can use a computer whose UI is not an insult to my intelligence, as limited as that intelligence may be. I wish people would shut up about the proprietary hardware. If you don't "get it", go use Vista or some distro of Linux on commodity hardware. If you like that, fine. A lot of us couldn't be bothered to put up with that crap.

Shiv Sena are a bunch of corrupt racist bastards. This judgement smacks of someone having bought the Supreme court so that they would have the power to crack down on people who have negative things to say about them and their bullshit political agenda. They are not above violence, torture, extortion, anything. I fear that nothing can stop these sectarian fucks from ruining my country. Where once the press had the freedom to poke fun at any politician they felt like, now they have to walk on eggshells.

That reminds me, can anyone tell me WTF the firehose is and why are we supposed to care about it?

Word. To say IE gained market share through its own "excellence" is laughable. How can Mike Connor be making such a dumb statement? With a straight face? When tech people hang around other tech people for long enough they forget that people out there are really dumb and believe nothing but IE and Windows exists. It's there, so they use it. Some people even after being introduced to Firefox don't even perceive a difference.

"Imagine the fun that some targeted malware could do - not that such a thing could happen to a Lexus. "

What an appallingly badly worded sentence. Targeted malware would be "doing fun" ? Help us, dear God...

This is not a troll post. This is 100% insightful. Mod parent up! Idle and The Onion were funny back in like 2003 maybe.

You have such a damn easier time than I do at airports even being a born Canadian. I avoid US travel and airlines now, except when absolutely necessary. One time in Chicago I got thrown in a windowless room for "observation" for four hours because they believed I was on a no fly list. Needless to say I missed my flight, and the connection I was to make after that, and I lost 36 hours in the process. Naturally they acted like releasing me for having done no wrong was equal to doing me a huge favour, which left compensation as a distant dream. It's a shitty time to be young, male and Muslim. Even a liberal, clean-shaven one. My full sympathy is with this family, and if I were them, I'd take advantage of the good ol all-'merican tort system and slap those people with a lawsuit.

I firmly believe that the type of people who are recruited to fill the positions in American customs and transport security(both TSA and airline staff) are some of the lowest, least human scum available. None of the other countries I've ever traveled to have so consistently hired such uncouth assholes, and this experience is culled from many tens of thousands of kilometers of travel. As a matter of fact, some of those countries actually had people who were *courteous*, that really surprised me considering the duffers I was used to seeing at US border crossings in NY and Michigan state.

Exactly how was electronic voting EVER considered a good idea?