my linux machine (gnome desktop + serving samba shares for a predominantly windows network) currently hasn't been rebooted since the clean install of 8.10 and related patching, which puts it at something like 6 months (not at home, don't feel like SSHing in just to check uptime)

but my XPpro/ubuntu9.04/fBSD6.4 laptop with the pitifully poor battery life gets rebooted whenever i need to take it somewhere or switch environments.

sigh. i'll get around to getting another battery someday, i swear.

that is the very reason the "erotic services" section was put in place in the beginning. users were tired of seeing the adverts when all they were after was some "normal" (non-paid-for) encounters with "normal" (define as you see fit) people.

now it's just going to go back to the way it was. woo! score one for the average craigslist user!

no offense to symbolset, but seriously.. this really isn't (or at least shouldn't be) a funny statement.

why oh why did my mod points have to expire yesterday?

kudos to you sir.

no, when my kids are up, i'm up and alert with them.. and no, my keys stay in my pocket at all times unless actively being used. although that is a tactic to avoid losing them.

having watched the original story as broadcast on the news this morning when there was absolutely no mention of the video game, this is just another example of trying to shift the blame.. and revise the story after the fact..

this morning on the news, it was described how the kid waited for and missed the school bus..

then (since apparently mom was too busy sleeping to escort her 6 y/o kid to the bus stop in the first place) he decided to take the car on his own..

then somebody in the meantime must have started hounding the kid about "why'd you do this" and he mentioned that he plays a driving video game..

clearly the parents are to blame, mine, for instance would never think it was ok to take my car..
but then, i'd never leave them so unsupervised that they could in the first place..