They went through a couple of bad updates, but the current version works fine as long as you click View, Compact View.

You'd better not take a machine back from one customer and sell it to another customer without re-imaging the drive. If NewEgg doesn't have the necessary expertise or budget to completely refurbish the machine, then they need to send it back to the manufacturer. Yes, unnecessary returns and refurbs are an extra cost, but that's life.

It should return an error code and a block page. The error code tells you that it's not a real web page, and the block page tells you why. This mitigates the hijacking as much as possible. If it timed out, it wouldn't really be a hijack, but then you'd have to wait for it to time out and wonder what the problem was.

4xx error codes mean the user has requested a page that's somehow unavailable, which is the truth. It's unavailable because the ISP is blocking it. 5xx codes are server errors, which is not correct.

It's probably the most accurate, because the request is denied due to someone's policy, not due to an error.

I guess it might take fewer tries than that, due to hash collisions. But that's why the hashed passwords should be unattainable.

How does someone obtain 70 million Yahoo passwords, and the associated demographic information?

A 3-letter password would require up to 17,576 attempts, and a 4-digit pin would require up to 10,000. So I don't know what kind of passwords these people are using.

On whether you count the proprietary OS on my 2G cell phone which you can pry out of my cold dead hands.

2-Wire routers are popular for DSL and Uverse, but Charter rents wireless routers now too.

I don't think it's more of a problem on Wikipedia than anywhere else on the Internet. First, they should require that people sign in before editing. The problem with a filter is that it would be difficult to prevent kids from opting out. Even on YouTube, all you have to do is click a button agreeing that you're at least 18.

I don't know whether to call Zaphod for help, or start stocking bottled water.

Children from poor families are less interested in education, and more likely to be poor themselves. I knew this in 6th grade. It's just that back then they were wasting time on analog entertainment, and picking fights.

Spam is inevitable when you let anyone in the world email you. So is phishing.

Yes, the SMTP protocol is probably less than ideal. And yes, there is no perfect email client that I know of. But before we can replace it, we have to come up with a system that's truly better for everyone, and similar enough that there can be a transparent gateway from the old system to the new one.

Email won't go away. If anything, it'll be replaced with a different protocol that works basically the same way for the end user. There is no replacement for the idea of email that will do what email does. All you can do is add features.

It has improved in the last few years. I haven't seen an unsecured AP in my apartment building for quite a while. Some stores that don't advertise Wi-Fi have secured AP's, too.

This is not a cloud-based world. It's a device-based world, with the cloud as a big component. So yes, Windows 8 will do fine as long as Microsoft doesn't screw it up too much. Even better if it does well on both a PC and a mobile device.