Paul Melko's first novel SINGULARITY'S RING looks at this problem. 90% of humanity who had a 'net implant died one day. The survivors put the pieces of civilization back together. All the while, the "Ring" a torus orbiting the earth that housed the AI that everyone linked to is still there. But no one can get into…

I do a form of manual therapy that's Servicemarked. The school that teaches it and hold the servicemark is forever sending out C&D letters to people who claim to do what we do but aren't trained to so. In some states it's fraud. In others, AGs and local DA don't care. Sometimes the C&D letter doesn't work and we…

I wonder if bjvogel replaced "homosexuality" with "being Jewish" or "being Muslim" or "being left handed" if their post would serve to show they _are_ being tolerant but not being accepting of differences.

Did Adam get this story because his private email address is hotboy26@gmail.com (or so he said in a webcast)? I did find that this method doesn't work with Trader Joe's Chocolate filled French Toast. You just need to partially nuke, turn, and wait to get those toasty.

I really wanted to watch this show, but the grief issues kept me from engaging. During the pilot I felt like a basket case halfway through. Ping ponging between both realities, never being able to 'move on' like the survivor (wife or son). The character's mind could do that, but I could not. The writing was very…

Others have mentioned most of the things I do now to keep my body happy sitting in front of the computer for long hours—breaks, properly fitting chair and table height, and sitting on my sitz bones (e.g. 'proper posture'). To elaborate:

My dad started this with popicles. He'd poke a hole in the paper/plastic wrapper and stick the wood handle through that. Nowadays, I have to use a pocket knife to do this because the plastic doesn't tear very easily. For a family pack, he'd use a paper towel with a hole in it.

If you just want to clone a DVD to an ISO file, MacDVD Ripper Pro is better. If all you want the m4v file, Handbrake will do that. I haven't tried doing m4v files with MDRP.

I don't know why some Firefly loving alumni and rich contributors didn't just contact the governing board and ask them to fire the police chief for overstepping her authority. She's putting the university at risk for litigation that they'll loose, wasting funds that could be used for student's services rather than…

Stay away from Bluehost. They tithe to the Mormon Church. I don't want to give my business to someone who doesn't believe I have a right to marry. (YMMV, in which case, don't marry someone gay)

I find it curious that the Hackintosh threads (which I adore purely because a good hack is hard to find) are about finding hardware that will run the 'crapware' that another thread just trashed. Maybe Adam Dachis and Thorin Klosowski show have a mud wrestling throwdown. I'd pay money to see that. My money's on Adam.

I have to take most of the tech advise on this site with several Kg of NaCl. Many of the "that's cool and it's free" stuff usually requires personal info to get it or you create an account on the vendor's site. While I have found many things of interest, when I read this article I was left thinking "go back to your…

I was so disgusted by the first clip when they started beating that kid in the body bag, I bailed on the rest of the clip. This isn't something I'd ever pay money to see. Same for the SAW, HUMAN CENTOPEDE or other snuff films.

I'm very dubious that FB will be able to deal with the SPAM coming from their mail servers and going to their mail servers. Gmail gets it right. I almost never see anything but my messages. I can't imagine the staffing required to do mail administration for 50M users. That's going to be horrendous.

I've always like the bound quad-rule lab notebook. I can draw or write what I'm doing. For tear-off paper notes, a legal pad is fine or large Post-its.