One of these days I want someone to explain to me why reading more books is so important. Not everything that isn't reading books is bad (take that grammar nazis).

What do you sugest then? And no, i'm not trying to flame. and no, I am also not talking about piracy?

Cyber crime in my book.
- Web sites are taken off line due to denial of service attacks.
- identifies are stolen and sold. Costing people their credit and sometimes their homes, their lives

Something has to be done, and at least this(as bad as it is) is a united(least it sounds like it) front. All countries need to be part of the solution for us to win this, which no matter how you look at it. Will be a solution like is described here.

Again, not trying to flame. Just trying to point out the stakes involved require a solution like this.

Or do you really believe they would develop something less secure?

It's not a matter of belief. Those who are paying attention know this is worse.

The problem, as I see it, is that this 'Cloud', although free, is the public face of cloud computing for many, and thus the one that many people will base their opinions on. Who would put their neck on the line suggesting 'Clouds' to their boss, co-workers, etc. as good, when apparently items can vanish at will, whether it be by man or machine? Even though the paid version would likely have better support, possibly less 'censorship', few people will be likely to make that distinction.

The 'waste becomes weapon' argument is a poor excuse, in my opinion. I agree that nuclear waste can be used in weapons, but compare the likelihood of that to someone leveling a populated building with more available/conventional explosives. Even though the scale of destruction is smaller, the damage is still done. Multiply the actual number of occurences by damage caused to people, property, image,(your choice(s)) for each scenario, and let me know how that comes out.

It's bad enough that the American public has to live through really bad sequels. It's even worse that Hollywood hasn't had a decent original movie in a long time.

Now, even the lawyers can't think of new ways of screwing the consumer!

You just can't make this stuff up.

My weight problem is that I have a fast metabolism and burn calories seemingly as quickly as I can ingest them. I was way too thin most of my life, which drove my ex-wife with her slow metabolism crazy.

The only time I ever gained weight was after she left and I went on Paxil, which I assume slowed my metabolism, because I gained 40 pounds. Unfortunately after I stopped taking them I started losing weight; I'd maintain my weight until I got sick with the flu or something, then lose some.

The wiki aricle is puzzling; "Ectomorphic usually referred to as slim" would apply to me, except for the "receding chin" which has no explanation in the text that follows. My chin is a bit on the large side. What would that have to do with body weight? I've seen fat people with receding chins, I wish someone would edit the article for either clarification or accuracy.

I often wonder if the news was ever any better. I read recently in, I think, Time magazine an article about newspapers from the 1920s. They would also back candidates and bad mouth the opponents, take political sides when reporting stories (and which stories to report), etc. Nothing has changed there. I don't imagine papers weren't "making news" back in the day either -- it's hardly a novel idea. They need to sell papers and, just like Slashdot, there are slow news days. So you go and interview a politician or police captain or waitress and you hope that something more interesting comes out of it. If not, you have a nice "people" piece. But there wasn't any news until you started asking.

With the Internet news, it's likely not any different, it's just faster. 24 hour news can't possibly generate enough facts to keep people going, so even the "famous" journalists like Anderson Cooper are left with filling in the gap with their faces and open mouths. "Gosh, I remember when I was sick with the flu. I coughed and coughed. Really hurt. Really hurt my ribs when I coughed like that. With the flu. So...uh...so you don't want it. The flu. Or to cough."

I read Time magazine (paper edition) because they usually have one or two long, decently-researched articles (thrown in between what are essentially headlines for the rest of the "news" and some opinion pieces). Anything online is essentially under-researched nonsense -- I'd rather see constant updates, then, after a week, see a full write-up on the situation with sources, quotes, facts, etc. Let me know what's going on, as you hear it, but give me the NEWS at some point instead of just a bunch of repeated text.

> Multi-button USB mice work perfectly fine with Macs. To right click with touch pad, put
> two fingers down on surface instead of one. There still is the control click, as you said.

Yeah... someone ELSE'S. While this is ultimately useful, it kind of defeats the entire "buy it all here" sort of paradigm that Apple is going for.

Apple's keyboards and mice are atrocious and are only getting worse over time. I really can't see them winning anyone over with the demo units they have out in the stores.