There is no war in BiÃOÃSe.

Did no one actually read Neuromancer?

This article is about the North American launch of the phone--it launched in China a while back. Maybe look for the European launch for a model that works better for you?

Strikes has two conflicting meanings. You can strike a deal--which I assume is the meaning here--which means to make a deal. You can also strike an item from a list--meaning to remove it. That could also have applied here which would mean they canceled an existing deal.

So help me, if this is a rounding error, I'm going to die laughing.

My (now ex) optomitrist tried pushing vitamins that were supposed to help repair retinal damage from blue light. I looked into them. They based their claims on a study done on mice which lacked the gene for macular repair. They exposed the mice to an intensity of blue light you'd expect to get if we had a blue sun and we lived on the sun facing surface of Mercury. Some of the mice showed macular damage with time. No kidding.

The U2 worked quite well over Russia and China as well--until it didn't.

To avoid being shot down? This device used a different defense "I'm just a civilian weather balloon, nothing to see here..."

It's just scams all the way down.

Has Lego been running camps and competitions recently? All I ever see are VEX IQ. It's what all the schools around here use.

It's been a long time since we've seen a site get slashdotted.

I donated. I've never done that for them before, so it was long overdue. I was hoping there would be a way to attach a note to the donation so I could tell them why and maybe someone there would get a chuckle, but there wasn't.

But the important part was that it will help them further their projects.

Hmm, all of a sudden I feel like donating $40 to the LibreOffice people.

You buy a house in a NIMBY area and are shocked to find that it lacks things in your back yard? Shocked!

When the global satallite system known as Iridium was in development, it had been named after the element with 77 protons which corresponded to the number of satallites in the system. Later changes to the system caused the number to go down to 66. Some of us joked that they should rename it Dysprosium, but marketing didn't like that quite as much.