Rain on a wedding day isn't ironic...

Agreed.

Irony is rain on the wedding day of a couple of meterologists.

I may be wrong, but I think that coincidence is 2-factor, irony is 3-factor

...a protocol that allows users to create profiles, "status" posts, groups, events, and other familiar social networking features as "objects" that live on their own server

I believe that mobile device computing power and storage will advance to the point that everyone will be able to carry his/her own server, removing even the need to contract with a third party for services.

All that's necessary is the user-hardware and the FOSS protocol. No deep-pocketed sponsor necessary.

i rubbed my balls all over your drumset!!!

Right here! See this? this is what I'm talking about.

Why won't the NSA take me seriously?

Do they have anything that can tell you if your roommate has touched any of your stuff while you were gone?

"Conan, what is good?"

"To see your enemies driven before you, to have their libraries forked and to hear the lamentation of their wizards"

How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need?

With any luck, no more than is necessary to shut the doors and turn out the lights.

"I would also predict that the vast majority of our customers would never be caught in the buying the additional buckets of usage, that we will always want to say the basic level of usage at a sufficiently high level that the vast majority of our customers are not implicated by the usage-based billing plan."

"640k ought to be enough for anyone*"

"Let them eat cake"

*Looks like Gates never said that

...a simple port scan reveals that the camera is running an unprotected X server (running Enlightenment).

And here I thought I was the only one running Enlightenment

This seems appropriate:

http://botaday.com/node/1755

It looks like that watch might be running MS/TRES

It's called "Hypermiling"

And it's difficult to do when everyone around you is hell bent on getting to that next red light before it turns green.

If you can't make money off copies of your work, don't release copies of your work.

Musicians should only perform live and Hollywood movies should only be shown in theaters.

The rest of us like our internet just the way it is, thank you very much.

Nowadays I only write scripts (PHP, Perl, Python, Bash, sh) and I debug with print, error_log, echo and exit/quit().

"'..."I don't believe so," Feinstein said during an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. "The president has very clearly said that he wants to continue to recieve the funding provided by the contractors who supply the equipment, software and bodies involved in this billion-dollar operation. So I think we would agree with him. I know a dominant majority of the - everybody, virtually, except two or three, on the Senate Intelligence Committee would agree with that." ... "A lot of the privacy people, perhaps, don't understand that we still need massive amounts of campaign funds going into this next election cycle", Feinstein said. "We need to be prepared. Television spots and Youtube ads are frickin' expensive!"'"