Same here. I'm 65. Actuarially I'm pretty safe. I used the same logic buying this house: Three-quarters of the foundation are in a 100-year flood plain. The last great flood here was 1942. The cost of required flood insurance fit my budget, and I likely will not live to see it.

"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

Agreed. My wife and I both switched to Overcast over a year ago when an iOS update rendered Apple's podcast app incapable of reordering the playlist. WTF? Why remove a working feature? I find Apple's dumbing down of an otherwise barely adequate app are inexplicable.

It's not like I ever saw a serious attempt at verification from VeriSign, Thawte, or GoDaddy in the 15 years I had to get code signing certs. It's a racket.

This is why I should purchase extended warranties.

I may be old, but just like James Bond/Daniel Craig (Casino Royale), I may one day have a chip planted in me. And when I'm picked up wandering the neighborhood, the shelter can wand me and call my family... Who might just leave me for 7-days to be put to sleep.

Amen! So a OS maker is not supposed to take steps to secure their OS? Nonsense, Kaspersky.

Since upgrading GMail late this afternoon on my iPhone and iPad, over a dozen old emails--I mean well over a year old--have been resent. None were in Drafts or elsewhere than the Sent Mail folder, and I can detect no pattern to it. Has anyone else seen this?

Seriously.

"...happen to be naked" as if it's a bad thing.

I had good luck with SuSE and OpenSUSE running KDE 3, but KDE4 was a disaster. Right away, things failed, like being unable to write to an iPod 5 or below. As upgrades came along, things got worse--spurious console errors, UI elements not drawing, etc. The final straw was KDE4's "semantic search technology" which never worked on any machine I tried, and which I blame for rendering 12+ years of email totally unsearchable other than by find and grep in a terminal session (maybe Nepomuk was not it; maybe it was other lousy bit of software; the results were that all attempts to index mail died).

When my home Dell box died, I took is as a sign. I'd never liked Gnome, so after 15 years of Linux as my personal OS and longer as my work OS, I went back to Mac. There are things I miss about Linux, but with my Macs stuff just works. I certainly don't miss KDE. And my mail is once again searchable.

"But the sullen ocean answered with a louder, deeper roar,
And the rapid waves drew nearer, falling sounding on the shore;"
--William Thackeray King Canute

Get ready.
Outboard personnel, stand up.
Inboard personal, stand up.
Hook up.
Check static lines.
Check equipment.
Sound off for equipment check.
Stand in the door.
Go!

Since my day, the Army has changed "Stand in the door" to "Stand by." The former had meaning for C-130s, but not C-141s and helicopters.

I'll have to check my jump log.