A bad hangover probably

Thanks Larry for providing a service I've been using for a long time.

However, while it's not written in TFS, there may be another reason while myOpenID was not that popular: reliability?
It is rather annoying when one cannot login to a bunch of sites because myOpenID is unreachable...

No Starch Press for instance.

Fortunately, Amazon is not alone on the online books market. Other companies (eg some publishers) sell books online along with a free PDF. This is why competition has to be kept alive, and Amazon should not be the only choice when it comes to purchasing books, movies or music.

What makes him -not- a whistleblower? He spotted illegal actions from his client (NSA) and used his privileges to prove him right.

I knew they were done when /. quit using the Bill "The Borg, resistance is futile" Gates gif for MS news. Now it is the new vanilla "we are re-branding with the same icon because we are still relevant, no really" gif.

Is this it?: http://slashdot.org/story/10/03/21/2345243/Multicore-Requires-OS-Rework-Windows-Expert-Says and more recently in May: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/11/1430259/microsoft-developer-explains-why-windows-kernel-development-falls-behind

I do think "the crew" threw him off the ship realizing that the iceberg is getting closer and closer by the day. I don't buy that he retired.

I know it is not a popular opinion, but I think it is important that Microsoft be a relevant technology company. I am not sure they are right now. They feel like RIM a few years ago. "We are still relevant, look new things!"

Interesting. But, what do people expect? How the new one will be chosen? At the time, Gates didn't want to be eclipsed too easily, and his Jobs complex helping, he had someone not-that-charismatic-(...) taking over as CEO. Maybe this time MS will finally benefit from a competent leader? Someone from outside, obviously.

It is more that the crew threw the Captain off the ship and now have the ability to steer away from that iceberg. We just have to wait and see if they actually do that or not.

Obama requests a sworn person to have a look at Michelle's diary + contacts etc..., then make a copy kept in a private and secure place for sometime, and only report to him if there is something suspicious. Looks closer to reality...

Great, thanks! If I eat something bad and need to throw up, I'll use that pack

Well, "rm -rf / test" or "rm -rf /$x" where $x is empty are certainly dangerous if run as "root", but at least you may get a system crash before "/home/me" is reached - thus reinstalling the system while preserving the home FS may give you all your valuable data back.

Run as "me", the same command will not crash the system, but will surely destroy all what's important for you (if you keep the command running, like in a script).

Sure, handling particular cases is not best practice, but "/" certainly deserves a special mention in "rm", since the fatal "rm -rf / test /$x" does happen, even from experienced SysAdmins. Basically if any of "rm" args is "/", the command should simply abort with a message.

Too expensive. Too mature. Too protester. No, CIO prefer to hire younger and less experienced fellows. They're not better, just less expensive and easier to control.

I'd have said Perl instead (program made from people in need of showing off, since there are ways to write redable Perl ).

But wouldn't a map where stations are displayed as close as possible to their actual geographical position be more practical? Distance estimation would probably be the first reason.

Well, they could also choose the $0 decontamination option: wait a few hundred years.