No, own your own WEBSITE. That's the only way to be sure. The downside isn't cost, you can get hosting for $15 per year. The downside is nobody will read it -- but they don't anyway.

Me, I just use slashdot. It's good enough for my purposes.

Wow, such willful ignorance. That's equivalent to reinforcing your roof to withstand a nuclear bomb, moron.

They have a doomsday religion and believe in it fervently.

Only if you consider history, geology, paleontology, and math to be religion. Face it, those who are born always die. We will become extinct some day, probably either by our own hand or by our lack of action.

You, on the other hand, worship at the altar of ignorance. Or maybe under its bridge.

This one comes to mind. The difference is, Lot saw that one coming, this time we were completely off guard.

And, you know, you only have to "endure" the bible if you actually read it. There's a lot of wisdom in that book.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to reap, and a time to sow;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

If that sounds familiar to folk music fans, Pete Seeger Plagairized almost all of it in 1959; The Byrds popularized it in 1965. There are reams of similar wit and wisdom in that book.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It just isn't beneath them -- nothing is.

It would be most dangerous to a recovering alcoholic. A hangover is actually physical withdrawal, and addicts often relapse. When they do, they usually relapse hard. Now, if their liver is almost gone this could save their life.

I recently installed Windows 7 on two machines. It took 5 hours on both machines to download, setup all patches. It restarted itself about 15 times.

I recently reinstalled kubuntu 10.04 because 12 sucked. It took half an hour, only one reboot. Strange that a free OS is so superior to an expensive one.

I'm one of those "sympathisers" here who doesn't loathe Microsoft... For goodness sakes, just release SP2 already you bastards.

My head just asploded.

If you're running pirated software you're probably pre-rooted anyway.

Woosh to you -- he was making fun of your homophone error. Brake != break.

A service pack can introduce braking changes.

Well, this notebook seems slower after every patch tuesday. They all brake. Sometimes it even breaks stuff, once an XP update broke my LAN driver.

Because the amount of cash that one would be willing to pay to rent a server wouldn't be as big as the amount of cash if every player would buy the game's sequel.

Wow... why would one need to rent a server? Doesn't anyone remember the golden age of gaming when online games came with server software pre-installed? For instance, most of the Quake servers were on gamers' machines. Pay for running a server? Maybe I'm just old but that sounds insane to me.

I guess in this age of corporate hypergreed we're not likely to see gamers running their own servers again. They're going to extract every pound of flesh from customers as they can. People just bend over and take it these days. Personally, I miss computer gaming but I just can't stomach today's corporate greed.

Considering Sony's past history of screwing over paying customers with the XCP trojan, the OtherOs removal, and other evils, my guess is the extra horsepower is for DRM, spying, or other consumer-hostile purpose.

With their history, I don't understand why anybody would buy anything from Sony.

Thanks for the link, apparently my info was 25 years out of date. It was the eighties when I saw the one in three, and the link says there was a salmonella outbreak at that time.

A vaccine by definition is something that prevents developing a disease.

True, but in this case I think they're twisting the definition somewhat. It's been shown that drinking in moderation has benefits to one's health, especially wine, but the key is moderation. It's also a social lubricant. I don't think I'd want a flu shot if it took away my sense of taste.