With multiple Explorer windows I can hover my mouse over the taskbar icon and see thumbnails of all the Explorer windows I am currently using. From there it’s an easy click to the one I want.

Can someone explain to me why tabs are better than just having multiple Explorer windows open?

I’ve been using OS X (soon to be macOS) for over five years now at work. I mostly hate it. Going home to my personal Windows machine is like a warm blanket of computing goodness by comparison.

If ever stolen phone got bricked, the demand market for them would disappear, and thieves would stop stealing them.

No, it would be done via a network. A phone without a network is a fairly useless device. Once it is online a manufacturer like Apple could see its unique identifier, match it to its database of stolen devices, and lock it down. This would all be done automatically; no human involvement needed.

But... internet? Why would it need to be in the US to be bricked?

Why is smart phone theft even a thing? All smart phones have uniquely identifying characteristics — serial numbers, MAC addresses, etc. It should be stupid-simple to tag a phone in a database somewhere that it has been reported stolen, and then the next time it connects to a network, it gets bricked.

Well, that would make the definition of “planet” completely arbitrary, as opposed to now where ... it’s ... not? I guess...

It can be a planet — as long as you are OK with there no longer being nine planets. There are either eight, or lots. If Pluto is deigned a planet, then at least a dozen other bodies would need to get planethood as well.

You can buy a lot of cars with four billion dollars...

Last flight I took with the family, we didn’t sit in a row together — we sat in a column. Seriously. 10F, 11F, 12F, 13F. It was actually kind of fun.

Greek, checking Facebook c. 100 BC

It’s worse than that. Of the twelve that walked on the moon, only eight are still alive. Unless something dramatically changes, in a short time there will be no people alive on Earth who have visited another world.

It’s more than a little mind-blowing to me that “Space” has been continually inhabited since November, 2000 — coming up on 17 years. Soon there will be kids graduating high school who have never lived a day when a human wasn’t in outer space.

While 2.6 billion miles is impressive, it’s still only a little more than halfway the distance to Pluto. A blazing 17,500 mph? New Horizons says “Eat my dust!”

You may as well ask why Tony Stark likes to drive Audis so much.

Is it my imagination or did the magnifier on the metro map actually make the image smaller?

I don’t want a fullsize picture. I just want to see it bigger, which is what magnifiers are supposed to do.

I love pictures that have a magnifying glass on them which you can click on to embiggen them, and then the embiggened picture is the exact same goddamn size.

I’m glad no one is keeping track of the movies I watch. That might be ... awkward.