@gpzbc: Nope. Discarded? Still the most widely used operating system in the world. Doesn't sound discarded to me. Outmoded, well once again let's go to the definition. Here's the definitions (all of them) for outmoded:

@gpzbc: So what are the new features you find worth the upgrade? Other than aesthetics, what are the things you couldn't do on XP that you're now doing on 7? I actually am very interested in answers to this question, so I hope it doesn't come across as snarky.

The comments indicate to me that a lot of people don't know what "obsolete" means. It does not mean "not the latest". It means "no longer in general use". ([dictionary.reference.com])

@kureshii: "A more detailed treatment is available . . ." . . . yeah, cause as I was reading this I was thinking if only kureshii knew something detailed about this issue. :-) Seriously, excellent comments, I feel simultaneously smarter than I was and way less smart than you, but all in a good way :-) Thanks!!!!

@ClydeOne: I don't think they're saying this has already happened, so if you're about to get one, go right ahead . . .

@Phoshi: Well, to start with 2000, 98 and 95 aren't "the most widely used operating system in the world" are they?

Brilliant. Never seen this before but absolutely one of the most clever fix-it hacks I've seen on LH. Thanks!

@hummybird53: Hummybird means this literally. Alot of people might not know, but a Hummybird is actually a large, ocean-dwelling flightless bird. They're roughly the size of a bathtub and they must stay totally submerged 23 out of 24 hours in a day. So a hummybird literally couldn't live without their Deep Water…

@faust: I kept waiting for this to turn out to be part of a movie or TV show, something like Arrested Development, but I clicked through to the Youtube page and as far as I can tell this actually is the world's biggest a$$ . . . can that really be true? Please tell me it's a joke, right?

@mherlihy: Agreed, I am not at all suggesting that NONE of the security procedures are worthwhile. I wouldn't get rid of magnetometers for example, I think they've done a great job of keeping guns off planes. But as the bad guys have adapted new (non-gun) means of disrupting air travel, the govt has made more…

@cobalt_sky: Like if you can levitate during parts of it, then it's still not really about you, it's about levitation, and how awesome it would be to be able to levitate, which you can, so you're awesome . . . but you let the *audience* figure that out, and there's the key! :-)

@DangerousLiberal: I'm not thinking we'll resolve this here, but most of the market failures that led to the boneheaded bailouts of '08 and '09 were not market failures at all but the natural result of moronic Congressional action to manipulate markets to achieve social goals. Promising that the federal govt will…

@DangerousLiberal: Recognizing that I'm a data point of 1, I would point out as far as the whole "bitching about TS rules" thing that I fly every week, sometimes twice a week, and I find the rules pretty idiotic. I don't bitch about them at the airport, of course, cause I've not desire for a cavity search, but I am…

@jokono: If I had a dollar for every time I tried to explain the merits of capitalism to a liberal friend . . . well I'd be a wealthy capitalist. :-)

@mherlihy: I think what most of us find ridiculous is the notion that people have to go through all this aggravation for something that doesn't actually contribute to safety. 12 ounces of explosives still fit into 3 ounce bottles, you just need 4 of them. Or, you just need to sew a different explosive into your…

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Just out of curiosity, is the issue that you use more of it on a trip than you can bring along in the 3 oz bottles? I travel about 50 times a year and this just strikes me as wayyyy more trouble than it's worth, so I'm curious what I'm missing.

I think National Procrastination week should be next week. Perpetually.

@jackburnt: LOL Does that work for longer shopping trips as well? I guess you'd need to pin a foot or an arm or something else that will keep them trapped but alive, right?

Agree with the earlier comment — this actually seems *more* suspicious, not less so. What would be a useful web app is if the VSFW site was loading the link in question and showing you, say, a gray or low-pixel or even water-marked static view of the page, serving it more like a proxy would serve. That way, the user…

If I can be so bold as to repost an earlier suggestion, I LOVE the Deals of the Day, but I'd love it even more with a tiny bit more categorization. For example, there are lots of TVs, but on a given day most people are not in the market for a TV. Same thing with a laptop. But other smaller things might be subject to…