I bought an HL-1240 in 2001 for $300 ($100 less than HP's cheapest laser at the time). The printer (and the stock toner cartridge) have lasted me through 2009 without any issues (I print occasionally, and it's nice to never have toner dry-out). Over the years, Brother supplied XP and Vista drivers (despite the fact that none of these OSes were out when I bought the thing), and good CUPS support meant it worked well on OS X and Linux.

I only had to buy a replacement recently because the toner cart got damaged, and I had to choose between a new cart ($50 or more) or a new printer ($120). I decided to see how much the technology had improved in 8 years, so I bought the Brother HL-2170W. On XP and OS X, the wireless configuration was a breeze, and it has worked without a hitch. The Linux support for the wireless is more involved - there is a CUPS driver, but you'll have to configure the wireless manually.

The new printer is even faster than my old one, and because it's wireless, I can stick it in whatever damn room I please. And the networking already supports IPv6, so I can depend on this network printer being future-proof.

No. Its the sun spot activity that's letting more cosmic rays in, they even mention it in the article.

We don't have to. The thing that everyone seems to forget is that corporations as such don't do anything. People who work for corporations, and people who run corporations do.

Jail the person responsible - be it a director, or some other manager or drone - and the risk-free abuse will suddenly seem much less risk-free!

Bonus points for pointing out the assumption of base 10!

You do understand that US as a nation haven't been going for long in historical scale? Most of what US has been based on now we're developed in europe before england shipped there (and robbed the land from native americans).

It was the Europeans who started robbing the land hundreds of years before the US came into existence. And please let us know what enlightened country you've come from.

So if you're gonna come up with the "US developed it and it shouldn't be used elsewhere", atleast think about where US tech has come from.

Most of it has come from the US, actually. But let's be honest here, nobody is trying to prevent internet technology from falling into other country's hands. You're not understanding the difference between the technology used to build an infrastructure, and the infrastructure itself.

A lot of children do not get the topic that is being taught without repetition. When they get it, the homework is done much faster so the hours of homework become a lot less.

Children should not be deciding what they need to learn. Mostly since home nay children are going to say "Yes, please assign us more homework". Teachers need to be better, yes. But also children need to learn. Many kids do not want to learn. And many adults allow these excuses for children to not learn. The acting out and pointing at ADHD, ADD, and everything else. This was not the case 20 years ago. Children that did this either shaped up or were sent else where. Today, these disruptive children are kept with the regular kids and bring the group as a whole down. What happened? I still blame the parents. For these parents are not doing their job of parenting. The parents will blame everything and everyone but themselves and their children.

Or find the bar that the cops park behind while on duty and stick it to one of their bumpers.

Watch them:

• Chase themselves.
• Explain what all the cops are doing at Li'l John's bar and grill all day.

You can't stop the signal Mal, you can never stop the signal

If money doesn't buy happiness why do we care so much?

Money won't buy happiness, but lack of it will certainly buy misery.

From a mcgrew journal:

Born in a well off family, he has an MBA and with the help of his intelligence and his family's influence, made a fortune in real estate. Alan was a multimillionaire with a huge house and a greedy wife.

He finally realized that no amount of money can buy happiness and stopped chasing it. He divorced his wife and dropped out, and stopped racing rats. He's no longer rich; in fact, he's decidedly poverty stricken. All he owns of value is a bank account with a few thousand bucks in it, and a run down, squalid one bedroom house that probably isn't worth much more than his bank account. He's supposed to be doing construction, but says "I don't do much work. I spend most of the day riding around with my boss in his truck."

Teaching his boss how to make money. His boss is now Chatham's largest home builder. His competetitors can't get loans and are having a hard time selling houses.

I asked him if dropping out was worth it. "So, you're happy?"

"No," he admitted. "But I'm a hell of a lot less miserable than I was when I had all that money. You wouldn't believe the headaches that money gave me."

I thought the issue with the R4 cartridge was that it circumvented the RSA check by the console. Reverse-engineering or bypassing copy-protection systems violates the DMCA. It might be bullshit, but it's still illegal enough that EBay won't touch it with a 10" pole.

And IE6 isn't even compatible with IE8 in some cases.

Welcome to the world of Microsoft.

From TFS, but let's take it slower

Everything is straightforward so far (except maybe where she got those numbers from)

Wait but, kids in other countries go to school for for longer?

So, does that mean more days the school year longer AND reducing the number of hours per day is correlated between math and science test scores.

The secretary's statement and the title "Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year" makes to make no sense on its own. Context please?

How about a contest to make NASA part of the public eye again? Oh I don't know, "America's Next Top Astronaut".

If anything, it would get people involved again, and the ratings and advertising revenue might supplement NASA's ever declining budget.

(I'm advocating a "if you can't beat'em, join'em" approach. It probably won't work, but as someone who spent only five minutes thinking about it, I really don't know)

Good Luck (You will need it - yes you NASA)

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

<quote>researchers have developed a version that vibrates to guide a person's arm movements. </quote>

One word: autopilot.

(Ironically, my captcha was "females")