Long-term, short-term -- it is still being stored.

The individual responsible for keeping him flagged as an active resource failed to perform that activity and he was garbage collected.

As soon as someone responds, the bot is writing the conversation to memory. How is this not making an illegal recording, regardless of length of storage, in two party consent locations?

Where can I buy me some SchruteCoin? I have a big bag of Stanley Nickels to buy them with.

Get with the times - you have to be disruptive now.

When asked how the company can survive by selling each unit at a loss, Elon Musk responded "Although Tesla sells each vehicle below the cost to manufacture, we will attain profitability by selling in volume".

They should fire their IT staff and only run it using their 3-month program "grads". Is this the same company that tells companies that they should only hire PMP certified people which, of course, a PMP certification can only be obtained from them?

Diplomacy Skills and Design Patterns. Those are my two I wished I learned starting out as a young know-nothing.

I had to straighten my father out one night regarding this very myth. I explained it thusly: When the barbarians were at Britain's doorstep during WW Deuce, and the same barbarians were trying to conquer northern Africa for the oil routes, I'm pretty sure the respective leadership was not concerned about protecting the oil industry's profits and wouldn't have ignored this mythical marvelous fuel efficient carburetor.

If the google expressly prohibits the use of its services for commercial purposes without some sort of license, or their results are copyrighted, or some other such legal mechanism is in place, Microsoft could/should find themselves on the other end of yet another lawsuit.

It sounds like you tried to make the class interesting to yourself, rather than understanding your audience and making it interesting to them.

"So, forget the performance and security boost, most enterprises and netbook users."

If you don't like the price to fly, you can always take the bus, the train, drive, bicycle, or walk. Figure out how much your time is worth and the real cost of these other options to get to your destination and back, then tell everyone how much you are getting fucked harder and harder. Last time a compared a train ticket, it was more expensive than flying - and it took two days compared to four hours. Flying is cheap for what you get, really.

Herein lies a credibility problem. If wikileaks does have the documents, why are they not publishing them? For extortion? If they are what they say they are, they should be publishing them en masse, not trickling them out for sensationalism.

Massive earthquakes, flooding, and now volcanoes. Maybe the world really is going to end in 2012.