"As for FB, my bet is still that it goes the way of MySpace before too long."

I'm hoping for something more mature, but the internet has this way of recycling ideas...

"There was a kind of ghostly teenage DNA at work in the Sprawl,
something that carried the coded precepts of various short-lived
sub cults and replicated them at odd intervals."

I misread "Europe" so I thought NASA was sending landers stuffed with cash to bail out the EU.

I disagree completely. Apple has ALWAYS been generous with foreplay and stingy on post-techotial cuddling.

What gets me is we had this exact same conversation in 1956, 1968, 1977, 1984, 1989, 1995, 2002. and 2009.

The Hugh Pickens change, but the story remains the same.

Resign? Ha! Send the idjit back to school!

Suddenly I'm all for mandatory skills testing... for school board members!
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Great job! You got every question right.

Waste?

If you have been a real Star Trek fan then there have been significant changes in your brain that allow you to better understand social justice, equality, currency-less societal structures, diplomacy, human-alien sexual congress, and the advisability of wearing red apparel.

Not a waste at all!

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"But why are people getting software from Download.com? What mistakes does our community make that lead to that?"

***applause***

A predilection for virtual pitchforks and torches over real ones, for starters. Flaming on forums is all fun and games, but tossing a living marketing exec in a real fire will make you feel alive and in control for the first time in your life. I cannot recommend it highly enough!

"very surprising that they've been sloppy enough to get caught"

You must be new here (to the US, not /.) ;)

Avoid them... or use them to set up a massive confidence game. Oooo that is a book just waiting to be written!

Almost an Ian Banks story. Almost!

Doesn't strike me as tateless. Seems to fulfill the definition of irony.

Now if someone had posted a happy post-bloodshed pictures of Syrian children eating ice cream cones and claimed it was irony I would strongly object! Although Ernest A. Hamwi, an American of Syrian descent, invented the ice cream cone, ice cream cones have nothing to do with revolutions or protest (except for the gelato riots of 1908) - thus no irony.

However, to be fair, if I take the long view that mentioning Steve Jobs is going to become the next Godwin's law, then yeah, that was pretty crappy thing to say - especially so early in the thread.

Although I don't use Firefox (much) I want it to be completely different from Chrome.

Firefox devs are full of great ideas and it's nice when something comes out that makes everyone say "hey, why can't my browser do that?"

If everyone jumps into the same look-and-feel trench then cool things stop happening.

hid me under a blanket.

My latest social networking invention, Hermitbook, protects against social analysis like this by not allowing messaging.