User: jibberson

What I read at first

On: British Record Companies Win £41m In Damages

CD-Wow has been ordered to pay £41m to the British Pornographic Industry.

Dell

On: OpenDNS Says Google-Dell Browser Tool is Spyware

I work IT for a tech university, and Dell has been putting this on machines for a while now. We've been removing it 'cause "URL Assistant" just screams crapware.

snowflakes

On: IBM's Snowflake Microchips

So does this mean no two chips are alike?

I have an idea

On: Mercury May Have Molten Hot Magma at its Core

Let's hold Mercury ransom for... one million dollars!

in soviet russia

On: In Russia, 50% of News Must Be Happy

Is it bad that the only reason I clicked on this article was the hope of reading some good Russian reversals?

Vista on the spacecraft:

On: Gates to join Simonyi in Space?

Open the pod bay doors

[cancel] [allow]

"In Soviet Russia, program cancels you!"

787

On: U.S. Airlines to Offer In-Air Wi-Fi

I wonder what kind of shielding they're going to have to add to pass government safety regulations. Boeing's new 787 had to scrap their wifi plans and change to ethernet, simply because the shielding weighed significantly more than the wired infastructure. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16831581/

Re:Elevator bug

On: What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature?

If you grabbed the outer door in my dorm elevator right when it was about to close, the inner door would close and you could open the outer door the whole way. When this happened, the elevator wouldn't move, so we ended up trapping people in it whenever we were bored.