@dry-roasted-peanuts: Israelis?

@MsCongeniality: Ah, I see. I didn't realize that MS office had that kind of third party support- although they're nowhere near as much of a Jealous God as Apple, they start to come close sometimes.

Man, that is bizarre. Sort of like opening bidding on a contract for a new aircraft, but having one of the listed requirements be "Must be made by Lockheed-Martin". Kinda makes the bidding process superfluous, doesn't it?

@acidrain69: "Penetration Tests" generally take the form of going through the motions of doing something harmful, but while being explainable as something harmless. That way, if the test fails, you don't risk getting arrested and you don't alert the target.

@geolemon: Yeah, I was about to say that this has about the same level of digital security as a public gloryhole has sanitation.

I'm wondering how much it would cost just to invest in better insulation. Anyone know how much physical and/or magnetic shielding it would take to protect a transformer from a solar storm?

Actually, all jokes about surprise sexual assault aside, I'm imagining someone deciding to troll an entire aircraft by locking all the lavatories from the outside, forcing everyone to squeeze their legs together until the Stewards figure out that the lavatories are actually empty.

@MJDeviant: Can we just blow up their mystical juju tree, then?

@Antiterra: Actually, is it weird that this is making me nostalgic for the Simpsons side scrolling beat-em-up? I remember these tending to be placed near each other in the movie theater arcades of my youth.

@Ben R: Only when the remote isn't so overly complicated. That thing has a thousand chiclet sized buttons on it arranged in grids- unless you get to the point where you memorize "three rows across, two rows down", you're not going to be able to work it effectively by touch alone.

Oh come on. If they gave firefighting services to everyone for free, that would just be promoting laziness and freeloading on the government and honest taxpayers. That's socialism- and as well all know, socialism is the same thing as communism, and communism is evil. God Bless America!

The album is up on Rhapsody if any of you droogs are members.

@Kajigger Me Timbers: I'm only 25 and things happen that make me feel old all the time. Like the other day, my girlfriend was talking about the "old days" of anime fandom to an anime club of grade schoolers, and somebody raised their hand and asked "what's a VHS?"

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: There's a great future in graphene. Think about it. Will you think about it?

I've got one word for you: graphene.

@icelight: On the plus side, "Black Hole Laser" is now the name of my new band.

@ihaveascreenname: I fail to see how remapping your controls would somehow allow you to *remain* scoped after you've been shot, and therefore unbalance the game.

@greytone: I thought that Time Machine was only available for Macs?

@Altima NEO: Weirdly enough, I have seen some 360 games that allow you to freely remap controls... like Earth Defense Force.

@Almightywhacko: Except that brings up the further question of how can remapping the controls create an unbalanced situation or possibly even count as cheating unless you're also implicitly saying that poorly thought out control mappings are an inherent part of the game's difficulty?