"Send us any fishy e-mails about Obamacare that you get," anyone?

Seems like a similar concept, only on Twitter, instead of e-mail.

I can't wait for the researchers to conclude that liberal tweets are 100% true, and conservative tweets are astroturfing. And that the users who are all astroturfers remind them of Nazis, too.

Current college student here. In my experience, the "distraction" argument comes up a lot from professors banning laptops, but an argument comes up just as frequently. Professors who ban laptops in their classrooms ioften argue that they present an unfair advantage for students who don't have laptops. I like use my laptop for taking notes, as I can keep my notes highly organized and keep up with the lecture's pace. My top typing speed is around 100 WPM with 99% accuracy, so typing makes things very easy. I avoid the stenographer pitfall, as I like to leave myself notes about what the professor is talking about and rephrase concepts. I actually had a professor deny my accommodation request, on the grounds that, on the first day of class, I was taking notes and had been chuckling softly (I think I might have made 3 soft chuckles, tops. How she heard me from the other side of the room, I don't know) about the irony of a British priest writing to the Brits about how horrible the Colonial Spaniards were to the Native Americans. She assumed that I had been talking online or something and was laughing about that. I tried to argue my case, but eventually decided just to conform and accede to her demands.

I like ZenTrack: http://www.zentrack.net/ It's open source and works well. You can have users, make assignments, see how long a task has been open, customize fields, send automated emails when tasks are completed/changed. Great tool

Bravo. Particularly the last line. I expect the list of arab countries represented in her passport, along with the material she was carrying, would have drawn a bit of extra interest at a US border crossing too.

He was a politician, he disgraced himself and refused to resign, debasing the political office he held. He was a hypocrite who claimed to stand for "family values" while committing adultery, and did so in order to get into office. Same thing for gay rights while getting handjobs from men.

So sure, he's not a -sexual- predator. Maybe we can agree he's a "parasite"?

If you weren't perfectly aware of it - I happen to hold the software patent whereby you can post comments on the internet using the word "of" in place of "off" and still get mod points for being funny.

Generously, I'm willing to negotiate a settlement.

I'll check it out. The problem really doesn't present itself until you're using low-speed storage--either something off of a USB drive or on a slow network. In the past, you effectively had to read the entire file before playing it, so large files would take forever to start playing from e.g. an NFS share (though once they started, you could index into them just fine.)

Nonsense. Any decent boxed pre-loaded PC from a place like Best Buy or Costco is more than adequate for running this stuff.

Now there is the obvious problem of distinguishing between those of us that are trying to use VMs as a poor man's mainframe and those of us that aren't.

Since Parallels is in the comparison, this is obviously a review for desktop users.

OTOH: none of these products popped out of the ether just yesterday, so the idea
that you need a monster of a machine by modern standards just to run them decently
seems a little absurd really.

I wonder if this can be proved without a EULA violation of some sort.

Excuse me, but it's only been Democrats who are calling exercising the First Amendment by derisive sexual terms, right? Oh, sorry, you were trying to be cute by continuing the practice started by Matt Tabibi, Rachael Maddow, and Markos Moulitsas. My bad.