There they will find the Rocknest Monster and the end of the rover. (Warning: not funny unless you actually read TFA.)

At least three times I've seen an off-color joke sent in a reply-all, that included a company-wide address in the list that the sender didn't notice. Once, I similarly received an excel file with all salaries (very small company).

Except for the caberet, I say 'good riddance' to reply-all.

Hope they'll have a bio-neural interface. I'll need one really bad by then.

I swore off Lexmark permanently for their habit of dropping support for printers so quickly. In my case, I couldn't get a driver for the next version of Windoze after the printer model was dropped. Clearly it was a way to force people to buy a new model. I did...an Epson.

Agree about the mindless bots. Humans don't check the postings often, if ever. I blocked a class C IP block once. The event log showed attempted hourly postings 6 months later.

Some things that help:
--Moderate the forum: heavy human labor, but works. The nonsense of most spam is immediately obvious
--banned words: tricky to avoid banning legit postings. Best used in combination with moderation. But its pretty safe to ban the names of the commonly spammed drugs, expensive sports shoes and ladies' accessories, etc.

On the other hand, that's barely enough for one jump back to the future.

What does Tatu YlÃnen know about this? It only took 20 years for his security tool to be softened by hackers. It takes almost, um, minutes for a new Apple ios to be jail-broken. Never mind.

Obviously the young fellow won't be a /. reader. For example, I can never remember if my PW is abc123 or 123abc.

Kind of heart-warming. Americans genuinely like Canadians and share a relatively peaceful border with them. Conflicts are few...the odd fishing-rights shouting matches and, well, ice-hockey skirmishes. Fairly rare on the planet.

I'm glad the ARS de-emphasized Morse code as a gateway to a license. Even the armed forces have abandoned it.

However, it's still fun and useful. It's amazing how horrible the signal can be and still grok the message....just modulation of static-y noise is enough.

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Who will own the data on my/Sony's cassette?

Claim 1: the social network of Fig. 1 whereby 'Facebook' is now 'Google+'.

Rejected: obviousness

Claim 2: the social photography network of Fig. 2 whereby 'Facebook' is now 'Google+".

Rejected: obviousness

Claim 3: the ghost profile of Fig. 3 whereby social misfits refuse to join Google+.

Rejected: because it's evil.

I predict that 50 years from now, we'll realize that all long-term predictions made in 2012 turned out to be wrong.

Agreed, unless we first learn to skin Schrodinger's cat.

There are some 4:3 cameras on the shelves, like Olympus DSLRs and others, including pro cameras and advanced amateur cameras. That resolution would be nice for photo view of high-res photos.