USB Toaster . Apparently not.

I think they might be overestimating how much we really like our "friends"... specially the ones on facebook.

And yet...

http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog

...the "Push" of this decade.

errmmm... No. You can't. Only if it was so easy... sigh!! iProducts don't show up as simple filesystem mounts when connected to a Mac or Windows machine. I'm not sure what you're on about when you say "I do." If you have a jailbroken phone and have non-apple-approved software running on it... your experience is not standard. My (current) phone is *not* jailbroken and that was one of the reasons I was astonished to see how easy it still was to sync it in Ubuntu.

dude... if you're envious of a $50K salary.... and you really are a college grad (with a relevant degree for IT work).... you're seriously, seriously underpaid. Move to another company NOW. And if there's not another good company in your geographic region... move to a bigger market (recent college grad... should be willing and happy to move).

I use an Ubuntu (Lucid) desktop for work... customized for our organization by our IT department and fully supported. Even though I develop (server-side stuff) for the linux platform, I'd given up on using linux as my main work machine a few years ago. This was done in frustration over the amount of work I had to do to get basic features going wireless (for laptops), web videos, sound, random usb device support etc. I had gone completely over to OSX as the platform of choice. But this current iteration has completely changed my mind. No more virtual-machines-for-coding-and-real -machine-for-everything else lifestyle for me.

      Everything "just works" out of the box. Critical updates get auto-pushed (arranged by our IT... thorough our internal apt repo).... desktop/GUI behaviors etc. have been flawless... and I was able to connect my iPhone and upload all my music/photos etc. to the desktop (for more convenient headphone experience while coding). This last one is something that I positively *can not* do on my apple laptop. So in this instance, the Ubuntu desktop added value to an Apple product that another Apple product refused to do. And I was shocked to realize how plug-n-play this whole experience was (after the fact). No hacks, no "install ExperimentWare version 0.31" etc. I plugged in the phone via USB, some windows popped up to ask me what I wanted to do with the photos/music and just did what I asked. Impressive.

.... is foreshadowed by completely serious statements as follows:

"Researchers spend a lot of time examining how people form friendships online but little is known on how those relationships end"

Why is jquery placed in the same category as the other stupid shit (that, btw, I totally agree with). I'm not at all a UI programmer, but my understanding (from reading about this) is that jquery is a bunch of javascript UI library components that, as a bonus, frees you from the worry of handling all the various browser incompatibilities. Is there *any* javascript UI library that you would be in favor of rather than jquery ? (I really want to know... not to be confrontational).

Approximate math:

(2^128)/(10^30) = 340282366

so we have ~ 340282366 *10^30 IPv6 addresses (theoretically... there's some fragmentation of the address space baked into ipv6 too).

  Why the units of 10^30 ? Because that's the order of magnitude answer for "What's the mass of the sun in pounds ?"

    End of the universe via thermodynamic decay is likely to precede exhaustion of ipv6 address space.

It's good to see the Greatest Deliberative Body in the world getting back to the important business for America.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer

Hmm... 2.6.32. Did they fix this bug:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16991

Awesome... Awesome... Awesome....

bill_mcgonigle -- what you're doing here is the very definition of FUD.