Microsoft. Just because they are no longer relevant does not make them any less evil or forgive them for their past crimes. This campaign is just another example of how they really, really don't get it. If they could make a decent product for once, maybe they could get some new market share instead of just sitting and watching their monopoly dwindle away.

Somewhere there is a story about someone that actually got charged with blowing a loud whistle into the ear of a telemarketer. I think this was before it was actually illegal for them to call. Now that it is, it is really tempting to do. And no, I don't care about the poor underpaid schmuck on the other end of the line, they deserve what they get.

As in the final nail in Ballmer's coffin.

They have a habit of missing the boat on things and then when they realize it, they compensate by embracing it and over doing it. A perfect example was the Web. They completely missed the boat on it in the mid 90's and when they realized it, they reacted by reworking everything they could to be based on http/html and the result was a mess. This time they completely got it wrong on smart phones and tablets and now they are over compensating by trying to turn a desktop into a tablet.

Apple seems to be getting it right by moving the best features of the tablet to the desk top but doing it in a way that makes sense. For example, gestures are great on both, but when it comes to the desktop, you should use a proxy surface such as a touch pad rather than the screen itself. The first fucker that jabs his finger into my monitor to move a window is going to lose it :)

In middle management

That sort of sounds illegal to me. If the ISP's start generating fake DNS responses or modifying packets, i suspect that they will be spending time in court. Not all bit torrent traffic is illegal.

Seems about 15% short of the mark

Halleluiah, i don't know why most IDE's bugger with the tab setting but the only proper one is 8. Anything else requires agreements that everyone must follow, which printers and terminals don't support.

Last year we got slammed by Irene and the October snowstorm (the snow storm was 10 times worse). Afterward I created a storm preparation list which I've reviewed this week and was surprise by some of the things that I wrote that I would not think of now. .e.g. spare fuses for generator, charge cell phones, etc.

During Irene I learned exactly what happens to my house as the amount of rain piles up. We can take 6 inches or so but after that the water table rises and my basement starts to leak in certain places. So we are clearing out those places and are prepared with mops, shop vac, backup sump and generator.

This time we won't be able to change what happens, but since we have experience, we know how to at least limit the damage.

Colin Powell remains the only member of the Bush administration that I could have any respect for what so ever. I think that when he looks back on his tenure he must think, "how the fuck could I have gotten myself mixed up in that clusterfuck?"

The difference is that one of them was a comedian making a joke the other is a pundit trying to rile the political base of his party. I leave it to you to figure out which is which.

As a road bike rider, I look at recumbents an think that I would be terrified of cars on one. I think I feel more comfortable being at eye level with the traffic rather than looking up at it. Is this just my perception or is this something that you have to get over when you start riding one?

It's not an irrational rabid hate. It is a hate borne out of 20 years of shitty products, aggressive business practices and all around bad behaviour.

I saw, or rather heard, two very knowledgeable guys helping people and having a good time doing it. Car Talk is/was a gem and will be sorely missed by the thousands of people that they have helped and millions of people that they have entertained over the last 25 years.

It is too bad that the parent poster didn't call them to learn how to change the channel on that radio thing in the dashboard of their car.

Funny, where I work we still use XP which is still the same rotting mess it was 10 years ago, the only difference is that it is wrapped in so much duct tape and so much time, effort and expense has been invested in it that the infosec people treat Linux and OSX as the same steaming pile of shit and it is really hard to break them free of it.