The Towle test is: 1) The character must generally have physical as well as conceptual qualities. 2) The character must be sufficiently delineated to be recognizable as the same character whenever it appears. It must display consistent, identifiable character traits and attributes, although the character need not have a consistent appearance. 3) The character must be especially distinctive and contain some unique elements of expression. It cannot be a stock character like a magician in standard magician garb. The Batmobile was determined to pass the test. Herbie would, by that same token, probably qualify as a character in a way that this Mustang did not.

"The final rule defines senior executives as workers earning more than $151,164 annually and who are in policy-making positions." That last bit would generally exclude someone whose job is engineer.

0.0 None 0.1 – 3.9 Low 4.0 – 6.9 Medium 7.0 – 8.9 High 9.0 – 10.0 Critical A 9.8 score means (in essence) the target system can be remotely exploited with no user involvement and results in full system privilege. This score is frankly as high as I've ever seen them.

And you would too if you were required to prefund your employee retirement account through 2056, a requirement no other business has to content with. https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...

Until Slack releases its enterprise offering, there'll be some companies needing the control that FB@work will give them. I've been using FB@work for a few weeks now, and it seems to be a great competitor to Yammer, but not to Slack.

Blackberry offers BES for iOS and Android (I think): http://us.blackberry.com/business/software/bes.html

Thanks. I was looking at the initials thinking it didn't feel right, but took the time neither to confirm nor deny.

The article doesn't say they are being hosted from DRNK, it says they've been invited to. The /. title is a poor summation, but the fact that they're not currently hosted there does not disagree with the content of the linked blog post.

a -150 (approx) day vulnerability?

You forget (or are intentionally not mentioning to seemingly strengthen your point) that the Bush tax cuts have at the same time reduced revenue, thus adding to the situation. We need to both decrease spending and at the same time increase revenues; this is the only way out of the situation.

How typical, Windows users are bringing down the average.

Last time I had to help a relative move a malware infestation I was asked what I charge for the service. My response was $150. But, I added, if you let me migrate you to a Mac, I'll waive the fee and migrate you for free...

Perhaps they should focus their energies (pun not intended) at something that would make a more substantial impact, such as CF or LED lighting...

Guy with a 1M+ UID comes up with this to say? Where's my +3 [Insightful and 1M+ uid] modifier?

Verisign isn't perfect, but the real culprits are ICANN, and the short range thinking of stockholders in the US who only care about what is coming next quarter, rather than being with a company long term. I'd rather invest in a company who has multiple subsequent quarterly charges against their income for R&D than one which always makes the numbers (even barely) each quarter, but really has no real direction to expand.

This is why I left my company traded on the exchange for an LLP. Oftentimes there is a lot of investment that goes into excellent profits (prophets?), and shareholders rarely tolerate seeing their companies enrich the lives of anyone other than themselves.