After several hair-pulling incidents where Windows ate my bootloader, I changed my dual-boot configuration to two separate bootable drives. So rather than using GRUB to decide which OS I'm booting into, the BIOS stops on boot-up to ask whether I want to boot off the Western Digital or the Seagate drive.

I think part of it is that KOL is very light on the PvP aspect, and it can be opted out of entirely without missing much. If PvP was a bigger part of the game, though, I think you'd see a much bigger gap between those who donate & those who don't.

It's not just the rovers. Despite some genuinely newsworthy fuckups, when NASA gets it right -- which is most of the time -- they usually do a stellar job, pun intended.

That's mostly a function of how they operate. When you're only going to produce one or two of a particularly complex device that you can't touch after it starts working, it's generally either going to work great (because you spent a whole lot of time making sure everything was perfect) or fail completely (because you missed that one important detail and turned it into a cloud of fine ash).

This, exactly. Many coffee shops in the vicinity of college campuses have had time limits on how long you could sit long before they had free wi-fi.

I remember several of my dorm-mates complaining when the Hillsboro street Cup-A-Joe started asking people to leave after about an hour if they didn't order anything else.

The only way that could have been closer is if he'd dropped the 'level'. And then it woulda been creepy.

Almost nobody refers to it as "the Xth decade of century Y", so being pedantic in this case just makes you wrong. They call it "the 80's" or "the 90's", which means it runs from Jan 1 YYX0 to Dec 31 YYX9.

I think everything I've got that's old than ten years is a save game file. I've got save games from almost all the old Sierra games. I've got The Bard's Tale and the SSI Gold Box games. But Apparently I messed up when I backed them all up in 1992, though, because dozens of them have the same date on them (August 11th, 1992). And suddenly I'm wondering. When is the last time I had a machine that could play the original King's Quest without some kind of emulation?

Still, one trade of 1 billion of those shares should be pretty suspicious. Is there any one investment bank that owns 40% of PG?

I'm not sure exactly how you protect against that. The software is meant to detect a certain trigger and complete certain actions based on that trigger.

Well, in this case, at least, the first step would be checking to see if the number of shares sold by Investor A exceeds the number of shares that company has issued. In that case, there's probably something wrong.

Did you understand the article? The subpoena had no force of law, as it was being served out of their jurisdiction. Done correctly, it would have had to have been served via the court in the jurisdiction the entity providing the information resided in - a California court, not an Indiana one. Because of time/funding/whatever issues, the sheriff didn't bother going that route, but instead sent what was in essence a request, not a subpoena.

Also, Can I send troops from Tribal Wars to attack my brother-in-laws Farm that keeps spamming me with "So-and-so bought a cow!"?

Why do I never have mod points when I need them?

He just copypasta'd this Encyclopedia Dramatica (obviously not safe for work, or really, anywhere) entry, but forget to add some breaks.

I wonder what the situation would be for servicemen overseas?

I'm no longer in uniform, but I can tell you what the situation will be - keep playing Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, or get other games that don't require internet access. I got out a few months back, shortly after the announcement that neither SC2 nor D2 would have LAN support. Coming along with the various console games that disallow direct-link or LAN play, it had generated a lot of ill will for various software companies.

Projects that cost a lot of money generally don't happen until there's an actual example of something going wrong due to lack of action. If one of the recent transportation mishaps could be definitely blamed on someone interfering with transmissions, Congress would push the money out in weeks.