The Greeks also considered "demokratos" to be equivalent to anarchy.

Messing with calendars has disastrous effects. Seriously. It's a weird thing to study, but those who do do not see good coming from making the calendar "just a little bit better."

Except that house numbers are generally made to be readable at a distance, whereas captchas are made to be readable up close, with scrutiny.

Either way, some part of revenue from the search engine is going to charity. You aren't generating anything new by using Bing's donation feature, just clicking a button to do what Google apparently already does.

I hate how Congress thinks it can legislate anything it wants, and whatever it can't legislate in can hold a "hearing" on and then impose some ridiculous punishment. Interstate commerce. It's not meant to be a gateway for doing whatever the hell you want, it's supposed to be highly restrictive and limiting.

Subsidizing us? You think it's more expensive to stream a movie to a computer than to mail a physical disk? Really?

I guess we just need someone to beat them at their own game. How can we get the MAFIAA to go after them?

I'm sorry your childhood was rough. Please, don't attribute that kind of harsh upbringing to a religion.

NDAs have stronger legal backing than ToSes.

Thank you. I've been looking for something like this off and on for a while now. Watching the first lecture now!

I think this may have been a reference to the now-infamous "your an idiot" response. Not sure though. 50% possibility it's an actual idiot, 50% possibility of a reference.

I believe his original statement was a best out of 3. Check his blog.

He offered them a settlement just as ridiculous as the lawsuit they proposed.

How, exactly, would you "ultimately prove" anything about life? I'm a very religious person, and I love science, but I also know that humility is the biggest key to seeking understanding about the world. Not every religious person is anti-science. Many of us fully embrace both.

Right after Diablo III gets a delay until at least January. I didn't believe the people saying there was a connection, but the timing here is more than a coincidence.