Does anyone have a link to that Gawker article that works without Javascript enabled?

That has to be the most brain-dead site design in history... apart from Flash-only sites, of course.

Usually because the UK government seems to insist on interpreting the EU directive in the most pedantic manner possible, while other EU countries take a more sensible and pragmatic approach...

You "opt in" to AdMob by visiting a page which has an AdMob ad on it (or by using an app that contains AdMob advertising).

Generally, you're given as much advance notice of that as an iPhone user would have got of this data collection. Granted, you're more aware after the fact, but your data has still been collected without consent...

Sounds a lot like Versions / Resume that Apple are putting in Mac OS 10.7.

Though I don't have a copy of the developer preview, so that page is all I've got to go on so far, but it certainly sounds about right.

(Except Apple seem to be checkpointing every hour, on the hour, so you can't take a checkpoint just before making a big change. But maybe that will change before release...)

On topic: what's the problem with memorising a ZIP-code to somewhere other than where you live?

1060 W Addison, Chicago, IL 60613.

There you go :)

GPS is advisory only , just as if your spousal unit was in the passenger seat with a map and a compass.

Though the GPS will give you considerably less grief if you ignore its instructions :)

(This is one of the more annoying things about Garmins: the way they say "recalculating" every time you fail to follow instructions. At least TomTom have the grace to make their units just Shut Up And Do It in those circumstances)

My TomTom comes up with the "now you can't sue us, nyah" screen only after a full reset. Powering off and back on doesn't cause it to display again.

Now if I didn't need to keep doing full resets to work around TomTom's crappy Bluetooth code, I'd be fine...

Like the car tax sticker in UK, they are designed to destroy themselves during removal.

Huh? The UK tax disc is just a circle of paper. You have to have a holder stuck to the windscreen to keep it in (dealers usually take the opportunity to put one in the car with their branding on the back, in case you forgot where you bought the car from...)

Looks like it's time for that Slashdot favourite, the car analogy...

Suppose I sell you my car (ignoring the fact that we're probably not even on the same continent).

A few months later, I keep getting woken up at 2am by someone playing obnoxiously loud music through a car stereo. Every night. It's affecting my ability to perform at work, and thus to earn. I look out of the window one night, and discover it's you, in my old car.

Do I have a right to break into that car and disable the subwoofer, simply because I originally sold the car to you?

Imagine this one: YOU created the Swiss-army knife. You sold it - then SOMEONE found out that two of the attachments you created could potentially be used to break into YOUR safe (a stretch, but bear with me - this is just to demonstrate that it hurts YOUR bottom-line), so you decided to remove these. Would you blame yourself for removing it or would you blame the guy who publicized the information as to how to break into your safe?

I think that, at that point, I would be looking to get a more secure safe.

Once I've sold something to someone, it's theirs. Not mine.

But... but... I thought Java was "write once, run anywhere!"

huge numbers of built-in magic 2-character variable names that you can't remember without a cheat sheet.

This is where use English; is your friend. Doesn't help if the previous guy wrote his code without it, of course.

I had a legit copy, but only got a few levels in before I was unable to hit anything.

I was never sure whether I just needed to practice more, or whether FADE had kicked in and was subtly making the game impossible.

Certainly put me off buying another game that had it.

You really should have expected the Spanish Inquisition.

That's not gum. They're little brush-like things that you move around your teeth by chewing.

At least, if you're thinking of the same machines that I am.

(Am I the only one who misread the headline as "tooth cleaning gun", BTW?)