'ang on, 'e says e's not dead yet!

Care to cite one? Since it sounds like you're so well-informed.

Zimmerman's claim of being badly beaten up before he shot the kid doesn't hold up either: there's some footage taken at the police station the night of his arrest, and he looks totally unharmed. No cuts to the back of the head, no broken nose, nothing. Guy's story has more holes than... eh, I'm on my eighteenth hour without sleep due to a project and can't come up with an apt metaphor, but something with a lot of holes.

A few months ago a friend and I went to Japan for a week and a half of tourist-ing it up. I had been before, he hadn't. When we got off the plane and he had to go the bathroom, I made sure to follow him in and stand outside the stalls so I could hear the scream as he used a Japanese toilet for the first time. That alone was worth the price of my plane ticket.

You have, unironically, used the term "Bro" on Slashdot. Guards!

Simple: they'll disable the automatic update, by force if necessary.

Realistically, though, these users tend to be behind corporate firewalls with lots of antivirus protection and a forced patch schedule, so I doubt Microsoft is too worried about them contributing significantly to continued security holes thanks to IE6. This is an update to save the clueless from themselves.

Want to know something amazing? You can find out! You can click that link up in the summary, read the full text of the decision, and find out! Isn't technology amazing?

For what it's worth, the judge ruled that because Sony had not actually removed the functionality- what they had done instead was ban unmodified PS3s from accessing their service- what they were doing was legal. You may not agree with the decision, at least try to get a grasp on the logic behind it before you start yelling.

For the first time ever, the term "war on Christmas" is actually accurate.

I know we're supposed to look down on Reddit as Slashdot-lite, but someone posted an interesting question there yesterday:

It's almost a difficult choice until you read things like "I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind", and then you realize you'd grab the red pill so fast you'd yank Plato's arm off. Participatory government is dead.

No problem, just start shaking down the Americans.

Since it's Korea, I guess this is attributable to narcotics enforcement officers all being old people.

Then would you care to enlighten us, O Wise and Powerful AC? Zynga's quarterly profits went from $22m to $1m in a quarter, and thanks to the SEC we've discovered Groupon has never made a profit at all. But please, tell us why these metrics are worthless and these companies are still hot stock picks.

There's nothing really wrong with TFA, but there's nothing there either. It's so bland. The questions are just "Why did you create Ruby? What's next for Ruby?" I mean, seriously? If you were interviewing someone for a high school newspaper that might be OK, but they really can't do anything better? There's nothing more interesting you could ask Matz?

As the inaugural copy of the reference manual for the new standard was being printed and bound, it underwent gravitational collapse due to its enormous mass and became a black hole, killing all the committee members. Stroustrup was quoted as saying that despite the misfortune, he still has confidence that the C++0x standard will help programmers be more productive and efficient.

and WOOSH there goes my karma...

Yeah, nothing thrills me more than the prospect of a language with absolutely no memory safety or bounds checking being exposed to the public Internet. What could possibly go wrong?