Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

I have a couple of solutions that might work for your legacy sites that tell you that firefox doesn't work, or other browsers don't work. First off, change your User Agent string to one that matches a version of Internet Explorer. You can find a fairly comprehensive list of User Agent strings at this website. A second option is to install VirtualBox on your main workstation and install XP inside a VM. This is a better idea than having a dedicated XP install on bare metal because you can repurpose the old machine or get rid of it completely, and once the XP instance is setup the way that you want it, you can take a snapshot of it to restore to after each use. That way you never have to worry if it gets infected after visiting some site or other. You just revert to the clean snapshot and move on.

Because vbox and other FOSS virtualization software are so mature now, there is really no reason to keep dedicated boxes for legacy crap anymore.

Also, it occurred to me, what road were you taking between Riga and Piter that required such a passport check? The now E77 through Misso then northeast through Pskov?

Anyway, speaking of the road between Latvia and Piter: "he lived the way he sang". Tsoi zhiv!

Sorry, but which restricted town are you speaking of in that region? Sosnovy Bor? Kronshtadt? There weren't constant checks in those places. Of course if you looked out of place, you would be checked, but it wasn't like the place was in lock-down 24 hours a day. Even now, Sosnovy Bor is closed, but I have never been checked, not even once while visiting people there.

Holy shit, man! You can get a nice apartment by yourself in Northern Virginia and have just as much local resources for starting a tech company as California. The internet is here, not there...

That's totally what happened when I lost my virginity.

Anyone who claims that CarrierIQ was actually the first malware in the app store for iOS is totally wrong. It was pre-installed by Apple on every phone. It was never available from the app store, so the headline is absolutely correct.

Another race would be you have changed ISPs, and you have to change the IP addresses in Microsoft's DNS manager for hundreds of domains and subdomains. I on the other hand use BIND on FreeBSD and with a well crafted one liner with sed and awk I am now on my way to the bar across the street while you're still pointing, clicking, typing, pointing, clicking, typing.

This article has to be one of the best trolls to have even been done here on Slashdot. Not only did it get the editors to put it on the front page, but it also has most everyone actually taking it seriously.

Well, courts would look at the intent. The intent of a clip with regards to fair use is to exist as a clip. If you go around gathering all the parts, your intent is to duplicate the full copyrighted work, and therefor is no longer fair use, even if all the parts taken individually are.

Let me make it clear that, it doesn't matter. Software patents should be abolished. Allowing them to stand as foobar algorithm "on a computer" should NEVER be allowed.

But that is the bullshit that I'm talking about. Everything uses a client system and a server. Tying the patentability to that is a load of horseshit ten miles deep.

Or this one.

Well, I'm not pointing my finger at that type of patent. If it uses hardware, that's different. My problem is with patents on pure software. For example the patent on 1-click at Amazon. That should not be patentable.

The idea that software patents should not exist is based on the idea that all software is simply sets of algorithms. Therefore all software can be boiled down to mathematics: algorithms and formulas. According to commonly held ideas about patent law: "You cannot patent a formula."

Sorry, I posted this a sec ago as AC by accident.