Seriously, why doesn't Sony just start leasing their consoles instead of selling them? Just pay $20 a month. If it breaks, you get a replacement at no charge. If you do anything they don't want you to do, they can argue that it was never *yours* to begin with. Kind of how I can't hack around with my cable modem because it's technically not mine.

We discuss it in kilograms instead of pounds, though, so they usually take it as a compliment.

You mean like defaults?

Everything you said sounds like it can just be scripted, not some sort of fundamental shift in the way we think about firewalls. The beauty of the Unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) is that it works at an almost intuitive level. The more complexity you layer on at the base level, the less clear things become for someone trying to understand it.

If anything, New Zealand should get new Macs from Apple faster, considering new models ship directly from China on a pallet.

This, of course, is clearly because of all the fat unathletic people that are hoping to survive the upcoming 2012 apocalypse by being the "engineer" guy that actually knows how to use a radio. I'm sure the number of people enrolled in community college car repair classes have shot up too, but they'll die down after 2012 again.

Half day old? Now, I'm no dumpster diver, but 12 hour old pizza sounds good to me.

Well, this sounds like a self-correcting problem on a long enough time scale. Hope I'm one of the 40!

+1 Damn shame

It looks like you're using a mac... Is this an accurate guess? and am I a complete geek from being able to tell that?

You know, there's a lot of good causes that could use those million dollars. I believe in right to privacy and not being hassled and what not, but I also believe in the common good.

I imagine if that happens, China would stab Microsoft in the back and start stealing their IP and putting it on their own computers. And if they started selling those knockoff computers worldwide, who would stop them? It's not like the US government would have any say in things, since we owe them billions of dollars. The best they could do is write a sternly-worded letter.

Actually, all he needs to stop looking silly is to attach a straw to the device and two beers to the side of his head. If you see a guy like that on the street, you won't think he's a creative blind man, you'll just think it's a guy ready for a party at any given moment.

As children always rebel against their parents, however, the contemporary Norse rebels against his ancestors by being quiet, polite and sane.

My brain had a buffer overflow. Can I imagine a smaller image, say 10x10 pixels, 256 colors?