I found that Amazon's Prime VOD is very similar to Netflix' streaming selection. I use Amazon extensively as it is, so with the various other benefits of Prime it made sense to kill two birds with one stone.

Yikes. We used to cut most of the handle off a toothbrush (excessive, I know). I can just see the old scoutmaster's expression when you show up for pack inspection with a steaks and soda wrapped in thermal packing. ;)

Exactly right about the various upsold seats getting to board first. They'd never do this. And really they could just cut a whole lot of time by just boarding everyone back to front instead of vice versa.

Yeah, OpenDNS is fast when it's not breaking the way DNS is supposed to work and screwing up anything that expects to get proper failures on a bad lookup. Google's DNS, on the other hand, works precisely as it should *and* it's quick.

Agreed. I'd also like to have show/hide file extensions as a quick toggle.

Normally amazon payment services won't let you buy from yourself. Probably to help curtail this kind of thing. I'd guess that's the reason for the part about bouncing money around. Personally, I'm not sure I'd do it, if only because I don't want Amazon k-lining me. What I might do to clear out a gift card (the…

Perhaps just as important as the shared program costs, we were meant to get three variants to be used across the various branches. It makes sense on paper. Unfortunately the usual BS moneyhole of defense contracts took its toll.

And they'll sue if it doesn't come quickly enough.

I was about to post, "Wasn't Johnson sworn in on a plane?", but it sounds like they delayed the take-off until it was done. You win this time, triggerx... but I'll be waiting.

I think the snagless boots would prevent that, which he used. But for bonus points, wire it as a loop back and monitor the port. When someone removes the key, light LED to remind you to replace the key, or even photograph the taker. Neato key management board!

Meh, it needs an "R" sticker and faux carbon-fiber hood, for sake of completeness.

I've dealt with uverse, wow and comcast. ATT and WOW were fine for install. ATT actually did an excellent job dealing with local wiring issues (just that part), though it took them 3 visits to get it all done. Of course at that point you've run into inter-departmental issues.

Oh sure, I was (maybe half-)kidding. It does make some sense.

I feel that Lifehacker should have remote interns.

I'm no scientist, but I suspect we're additionally desensitized to pleas for help on behalf of a gajillion people because we've seen a gajillion commercials begging for money, and know that those problems never go away (not that people shouldn't help anyway, mind you). Helping one specific person with a name and a…

German porn?

Not unlike the thousands of other items in a walmart that aren't tied down and aren't supposed to be stolen? ;)

That's this. They used a modified, harmless version of HIV. In this blurb they didn't mention the HIV part, just "a virus". Probably to avoid confusion and FUD. For instance, /.'s write-up was, "Cancer Cured By HIV". Which is a bit misleading.

Sounds like post-industrial transitional pains. They're getting to where we were a while ago. The interesting twist is that they've already got modern manufacturing capabilities and operating knowledge. If only because other countries are giving it to them.

Well, and the domain names would be taken already.