That's pretty sick.

I hope they win and get awarded $1 in damages. Rounded up, of course.

Walmart cyberwhatever sale. Still available as I'm typing.

Don't forget Cops.

Red Mars,
Red Mars,
Whatcha gonna do,
When they terraform you?

I saw Android 2-in-1s going for 80 last week. And Win10 2-in-1s starting at $100. And those include display/keyboard/trackpad so they're ready to go out of the box. They're not amazingly powerful but neither is this thing. Why would I pay $70 for something in the same class that lacks input devices, a display, and a battery? $25 tops.

I thought 8 and 10tb helium-filled drives had been around for a while. Like a year or so.

...for about half an hour.

I keep seeing reports of this saying "4,800,000 parents" and "227,000 children". Can someone please explain this?

I bought stuff over the web earlier than that in 1994. Probably as much as a year earlier. And more than a year if you count non-web transactions.

The /. summary leaves out that significant caveat.

Don't forget that everything that moves and half the stuff that doesn't is deadly.

Your mother's maiden name isn't an identity check. It's like "What's your first pet's name". Nobody has the name of your first pet in a big database used to verify your identity. It's just a passphrase that can be anything. In fact, you should use something other than your mother's actual maiden name. Anyone can do a bit of research and find out your mother's maiden name. But they can't do research to find out the fake name you used so they won't be able to use that information to take over an established account.

...my company's accountant told me that someone in Los Angeles had used my SSN and the IRS was trying to garnish my wages. She told them that I was certainly not Mr. Aguilar and that I was not responsible for Mr. Aguilar's debt to the IRS. Seems like a simple thing but she was not supposed to tell me about the incident. Because if the proles ever found out how often this happens, they'd lose faith in the integrity of The System. I, as the taxpayer and rightful SSN holder was never contacted by the IRS to either collect money or warn me that there was someone out there using my SSN, possibly ruining my credit.

I know. I've seen me do it. I got my 24/7 internet with a routeable /29 subnet thru an internet cooperative back in the early/mid 90s. Sure, it was dialup but that's what was available at the time. We built it because everything available through dialup was metered at around 50 hours per month except for a couple ISPs that would kick you off after X hours then bitch at you if you had an autodialer that reconnected. With 20 connections, it really didn't cost a whole lot more than a regular account. After a few years, we co-located our equipment at a new ISP (instead of a residence) and were able to do ISDN. Then cable and DSL rolled out simultaneously and we shut down pretty much overnight. It was neat while it lasted but the world finally caught up.

Now I can post this from tens of thousands of feet over the ocean.

That that is a quality franchise.

I don't think I've ever heard Star Wars described as "passionate expression" before.