Instead of a wastebasket, do the truly ecofriendly thing and put a snake cage under it.

Just curious, do mega-blog sites give a heads up to the services they will be mentioning in upcoming articles? Not to give editorial control, but to say "hey, y'all might want to up your server and network capacity tomorrow."

I still don't get Chrome "apps". Except for Pixlr and a couple other things, they are just freaking bookmarks that take you to a webpage.

Is that 2A total USB output or are both USB ports 2A?

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Fridge door magnetic strips would provide a better seal.

After a certain point, the Peter Principle kicks in and being useless can actually be a benefit.

Not picking nits intentionally, but instead of "imminently" you may have meant "eminently"?

Exactly. Take less, don't pack more.

VOTE: CRASHPLAN

If all things were equal, neither would be better or worse than the other.

About 30 minutes ago I've been getting IPV6 connection requests for 2001:4860:4860::8888 when going to google.com.

Now you can say this wine has a pleasing pallet. Palate... get it?!

Note that this only works with the "new" Compose.

Lex Luthor must be involved in this somehow.

"Worst nightmare"? I don't think so.

A strange game. It would seem the only winning move is not to wear a suit.

In my experience, having a Russian befriend you or decide that they are going to help you is one of the best things that can happen to you. Once they decide that you are their responsibility, no force on Earth is going to stop them from accomplishing their mission.

I've wanted this feature for a long time and wonder why appliance manufacturers don't include it as an option. The washer tells you when the load is done (or has stopped for some reason), the dryer lets you know when it is done, the fridge tells you the door is open (same for the second freezer in the garage that you…

I travel *a lot* for business and I have used in-flight wifi maybe twice in the last five years. Why? The connection is usually terrible, there isn't enough room on the tray table to safely hold a laptop and finally... I take the time to be unplugged for at least a few hours. If it was so life-and-death critical…