Obviously for those 16,000, closing the leak doesn't do much good. But, assuming more than 16,000 people live in South Carolina :), there are certainly some horses still in the barn to be protected.

Ah, so, preview. That's helpful, I hear.

# cat patents | wc -l
8000000000
# cat patents | sort | uniq | wc -l
96

# cat patents | wc -l 8000000000 # cat patents | sort | uniq | wc -l 96

And 9 month later, we'll have another baby boom on our hands.

I know, right? We're pretty awesome. Everyone knows about us!

Haha! You must have been visiting a pirated version of the site. The legitimate one behaves correctly. Gotcha!

The summary seems to end abruptly and the article.

And I'll tell you from experience, it hurts just as much. Don't hate me just because I drive a nicer car than you!

correlation != causation

Due to a well-placed line-break, I saw in the summary: "the shortened sleep effect was replicated in mouse and fruit." That really had me wondering how on Earth they tested this.

Ah, he's probably been dialing into some BBSes, playing TW2002 or something. I remember keeping our phone line busy for very long stretches of time playing door games. Or maybe he's playing world of warcraft over dial-up. You have to turn off call waiting, or things get screwed up. Just wait, he'll get back to them in a month or two.

woah... courtesy? You must be new here. You were supposed to say "Why don't you RTFA, you mouth-breathing buffoon." I realize that it's Bruce Perens you were responding to, but this is Slashdot. We have standards here!

I'm hoping they'll make a web-based version of firefox to run within Chrome. That way, no matter where I am, I can connect to and use my web browser.

Actually, according to this site, the telephone sanitizers didn't clean telephones at all. I guess "telephone sanitizer" sounds better than "crapper cleaner."

Sure, but they won't know if they data they guessed is right. If they guess the password correctly, it successfully decrypts the data, and you know it was right.