As an early gmail adopter with a fairly generic e-mail ID, I’ve had this issue for quite a while. One unusual issue I ran into was when I tried to sign up for an account on a website and found that someone else had already signed up using my e-mail address. They had limited functionality since they couldn’t respond to…

That’s the point—this is only true if there’s going to *be* a future.

Deadspin shows me nine ‘recommended stories’ at the bottom of this article; all are related to the Weinstein story, and five of the headlines include variations on ‘alleged‘ or ‘accused‘.

It’s not quite as easy as you make it out to be, to win at Connect Four. The sequence in the video is one sequence of perfect moves; the problem is, there are alternate moves for your opponent that are as good or nearly as good. So if they go off your ‘script’, you need to understand the strategic and tactical…

I was amused by local radio advertisements for one of the Hooters clones a couple of years ago, where the two selling points they were pushing were the waitresses and the coldness of the beer. I think it was something absurd, like 29 degrees ... My reaction was, “Ah. So what you’re saying is, the servers are so cute…

The article is less useless if you actually read it. The MS-Windows task manager is useless for this, but the embedded Chrome task manager works fine. You should try it.

If some of the fans start kneeling instead of standing as well, maybe they’ll start playing the anthem before they open the gates.

Track shoes are always brightly colored, IME. I’m not sure, but I think it’s an alert/warning flag for shoes with spike plates. “Danger: this shoe might have pointy bits of metal sticking out of the sole. Watch yerself, that’s all I’m sayin’.” So the garishness isn’t unusual in and of itself, just the uniformity of…

Was the victim rooting for the visiting team? I think there’s a clause in the fine print about that.

“The current tethering cap for unlimited plans is 7 GB of data. It would be pretty difficult to blow through that without knowing that you’re doing so.”

According to Gamescience, it’s the process by which the edges get rounded that’s the problem. It tends to ‘flatten’ the die along one axis or another, making the numbers parallel to that axis more likely and the ones on the other axes less likely.

"It's hard for me to believe an HR department would not recognize the exposure they take on asking for information like this. That is straight up stupid from a risk management standpoint on their parts."

Yes, but Pascal wrote in French and this essay is in English. So translating the phrase is mandatory (there's very little point in including a phrase in Classical French in a piece directed at a modern English-speaking audience). The question is, how freely is one allowed to translate and still call the sentence a…

Can you imagine what would be involved to get someone named Albernarle Fitznumbnutz III? This is a long and challenging process:

How recently have you tried? McDonald's coffee was historically just plain awful. Since the McCafe makeover, it's typically at least drinkable. It varies by location a lot more than most other McDonald's menu items, too, because they're not tied to standard nationwide suppliers. So it's possible you're just in an area…

IMO, there are two things people need to understand about sleep schedules:

Based on a quick glance at my inbox: yes, yes it is.

Additional suggestion: please close the front door behind you first.

At little more detail may be useful may be helpful for someone who's never done it, jp ... What we're talking about is MAC address filtering, and this is probably what it will be called in your router's admin program. The MAC address uniquely identifies a device. Unlike an IP, which identifies a network node which…

This is basically what I was going to post, then I realized how that conversation was likely to go. "I'm a huge introvert and an absolutely terrible liar, but I instinctively drew the Q oriented towards the viewer." And of course, every smart-ass on the 'net, of whom there seem to be about twelve billion, would be…