Turns out Newegg isn't such a reliable source. Better try wikipedia.

Where do you live that you think a commute in a smaller city is even a factor? The average household income here is about $44k. A decent 2000sqft house can be had for $150k. My commute (from outside of town) is about 10 minutes, and a lot of people live closer than that. You can easily find a job making at least $60k. If you can't make it in in the winter sometimes, you can work from home.

Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky (Dr. Strangelove) wasn't a spy?

.999 * 10 = 9.99

Under what circumstances do you think a court would decide to give the FBI a warrant to track your car, but not one to enter your property?

Pffft. Where's the inflatable Death's Head? Go big or go home.

Yeah, except they, you know, agreed not to.

What I don't get is why, 35 years later, it suddenly happened.

Amazing, isn't it? Your friends and family can affect your real life! And the only choice you have is to either deal with it or cut off all ties to them. Ever seen Black Sheep?

The summary sure is rich. Removing someone from your Facebook friends is akin to cutting off your head. Brilliant.

Before anyone goes and calls this "ironic," please remember the definition of the word. Thank you, Alanis Morissette.

Someone is supposed to say that, right? Whenever a textbook example of irony comes up? Someone idiot to act like everyone else is stupid?

I'm still exclusively interested in finding out what video formats are available. I have an extensive library of h.264 encoded movies for Apple TV. I don't want to buy or stream movies from these services on my sad internet connection, I want to properly enjoy what I already have. And I'm tired of converting movies.

Oh, and how metadata for my videos will be handled. MetaX for tagging in my iTunes library and Boxee's backwards method both work. What does Google do?

Say what you want about today's social problems, but today you don't have a society that thinks its ok to make people give up their seats because of the color of their skin. Changing was inevitable regardless of what technology was used.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/09/30/2054210
Say what?

"Congress can't pass a budget. Therefore they should do absolutely nothing."

Yeah, mods. That's incredibly insightful.

For a scientist, Hawking sure has been making a lot of grandoise claims without a lick of evidence. What blows my mind is that people keep reporting on them.