Let's see... an unprotected ad-hoc network that lets any and all traffic through. What could possibly go wrong?

That wasn't a nuke being set off - it was just vikingpower turning that V1280 on.

But I'm rooting for Cardinal Sicola.

So I'm guessing they used the Hurd micro kernel on this thing?

This demonstrates a problem seen on both sides of the climate change debate - people look at their short term local environment and extrapolate those experiences to the world as a whole without looking at actual relevant data.

Had a really hot summer? Boy, this global warming has gotten bad, it's going to wipe out humanity in a decade.

Terrible winter? Man, I'm tired of all those global warming alarmists - I wish it WAS warming!

But as far as the ozone hole goes... Given the very slow rate of exchange between the upper and lower atmosphere, it's hard to see how policy changes mainly implemented by western countries in the very recent past could fully explain this.

So:

1) it's 10 years - or more - behind everything else
2) it's a hobby project
3) it's not even a RMS project

So why did Slashdot waste our time by posting this story? Why should it get any coverage at all, ever?

So if you're reading a guy's job application, and it shows he did a significant amount of really good work in the 1990s but, since then, he hasn't been able to add even basic functionality to a more modern project... Do you hire him? Does he even get an interview?

Touch tone phones were only following the pattern already long established by rotary phones - those had the same letters associated with the same digits.

As a matter of fact, when I was a kid our phone numbers were usually stated with the first two digits being replaced by letters - so you might've said "my number is LE5-4192" for instance. That first bit indicated which exchange you were on, and was probably a hold-over from when operators had to manually make the connections.

Or my joke simply fell flat, which is a common enough occurrence.

The USPS is already almost irrelevant right now. All my bills are electronic, with the exception of medical stuff... and even they are starting to finally come around. My family is all on email, even my 75 year old mom. So really, all I get in the mail is postal spam (a LOT of it) and Christmas cards. I haven't gotten an honest-to-goodness letter in a decade.

I feel bad for the people who are going to be put out of work; but I don't think maintaining a postal service makes a whole lot of sense anymore. Let it die.

For what it's worth, I was trying to make a "let's blame everything on Apple" joke. A client should only have limited ability to disrupt a well-designed server setup.

Apple and Google are working to undermine Microsoft. But Apple didn't think going Google's route and just dropping Exchange support was the best strategy - they decided to actively attack.

Yeah. Having been an Android user and now an iPhone owner, I have to laugh whenever this permissions comment comes up (which it does pretty regularly). Android's giant per-install catch-all list is not helpful at all - that's definitely one area where iOS runs laps around them.

But to address the topic of this story... I do wish iOS had a pull-down set of radio toggles a la Android. To get one I have to jailbreak. Of course, SBsettings is superior to Android's pull down, so I hope if Apple ever does this they borrow ideas from them rather than directly from Android.

Wow, this iOS upgrade is so bad it's even affecting the servers!?

Don't be a pirate. Don't steal heads.