@squishyalt: Wow, hostile much? Speaking of morons, did it occur to you that a guy who devises a method for cleaning LPs with wood glue is, I dunno, a MUSIC FAN? And perhaps he likes having a little quiet music on in the background while he's spending his evening teaching a lot of nice internet strangers and one…

@Firesphere: And for a wide variety of Ziplocs:

@Inori_no_uta: I don't have any more data than you have, of course, but I'd still maintain that eliminating XP support — on the margin — gives consumers who DO use IE (I'm a FFox fan myself and haven't used it since IE6 myself) one more reason to switch. I'm thinking here of the less technical user who goes to update…

@Yossarian: Definitely worth using something *other* than the burning program to verify. I like to make a hash file of the files I'm burning to DVD, then burn the hash file to the DVD as well. When the burn is done, I open my hash file checker of choice and verify that I get identical hashes from the files on DVD as…

What's hilarious about the IE9/XP thing is that MS is likely doing this as a way to encourage people to upgrade OS's when in reality all it will be is a reason for people to not "upgrade" to IE9. (not that I was thinking about it)

@Firesphere: Ziploc bags?

I'm a big GMail fan but I do wish they'd add the ability to remove attachments, or at least the ability to filter by the large attachments. I suspect the reason they don't is because it would cut down on the sale of extra storage, but I'd just as happily pay $5 a year for the ability to remove attachments as I would…

@_Ko0LaiD_: Or lives in Buffalo . . . You know it gets late earlier out here than it does on the West Coast. :-)

@Interstella5555: There's an app for that too! :-)

I think the Nobel has lost much of its allure since the 5 Norwegian bureaucrats who — alone — decide on it began giving it away for aspirational or political reasons several years ago. But when you go back through its history it used to be an incredible lever to raise the profile of brave people seeking peace…

@allyzay: I also took this to mean a target list of relatively well-known people. Not someone you'd have to hack their Facebook page to get a picture of but, as the post points out, maybe you've noted something from their most recent blog post.

A KVM is a critical part of making this work well.

@freakshowtime: I have to admit, I was expecting a much quicker reaction and at least one or two LOLs to my IANAL comment. Now I just feel cheap and easy. :-)

@Posco Grubb: Sorry to keep coming back to data :-) but 65% of the market is telling you that people are just fine with the level of support they get with XP. Numbers talk, Vista walks. :-)

I am not a lawyer (that should become and internet acronym IANAL . . . oh, wait, never mind). Anyhow, I always understood that the restriction applied to where you are located, not where the other party is. So if I am sitting in New York and call Connecticut, and I record the call with one-party consent (mine) I…

@Phoshi: Neither your initial comment nor your follow up sounded facetious, but if you say so . . .

@gpzbc: In an earlier comment I broke out the Win OS market shares:

@gpzbc: This is actually a very helpful comment, thanks. You should probably work in mktg for MS — that's a more concise justification for why to upgrade than most of what I've seen ;-)

@Phoshi: No, actually, not many people still use them. As of last month, Windows had 91.6% market share which broke down as follows:

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