is that a wedge? I was just going to ask about that.

the 'infotainment' system in Mazda's is similarly situated. It's a shame it's a turd because I love the way they look.

He lives in my hometown metro area, so the first thing that caught my attention was "when my kids go to school". I'm sure very few of the teachers are as nerdy as me/us, but can you imagine having a 'Torvalds' in you class? Hermione Torvalds? Are you related to...? (I'm sure that's not his child's name).

I learned third hand about the "HALTs". I think it originates in addiction counseling, but my sister and I use it all the time. We're LOUD, combative, and most people can't stand to be around us together, but we are very close and have no problem with our preferred method of communication. Still, we've had our times…

you keep saying "the fact is" when stating a personal opinion. Do you not understand the difference? That may be your problem.

I can't speak to cybersecurity, but for research in general it is unlikely that the "govt" secretly makes discoveries and advances far ahead of the public. Assuming that classified institutions attract equal quality of minds as public ones, which I personally don't believe, it would probably be about 50/50. Even if a…

Are you serious? This is the stupidest and most unsophisticated denial of our basic rights. This follows the thinking that you should only be worried about losing privacy if you have something to hide. PRIVACY IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. A right means we don't have to earn it, we are granted it simply by being…

Linus Torvalds uses a Pixel running Fedora. His previous machine was a macbook Retina. I don't suppose he has installed linux, but Linus thinks that the chrome OS doesn't properly showcase just how powerful that machine really is.

Scientology is hardly the most successful new religion of our era, I think that title goes to the LDS church. By a lot.

I think you can switch the click buttons, at least in linux.

"Well begun is half done" - Mary Poppins. That one was a slow burn, I had to think about it for quite a while before I really understood: get a project started right, and thats half the job. One strange application I've found is to relationships, when I or a friend is tempted to start something in less than honorable…

This makes me want to cry.

In my opinion (everyone has one) the issue is not the machines, but the secure and faithful safeguarding of the voting data. This has been proven by many scientific sources to be shoddy at best (Argonne National Lab et. al). There are quite a few non-profits that are working on solid, secure, verifiable voting data…

What amazes me about you and every other jerk with this attitude is that you have never worked in a tipped industry and have no idea what other "variables" we have to deal with. Yet you spew out this nonsense, which is in no way innovative or new, as if you are Albert Einstein describing the photoelectric effect. Like…

Taken individually some of these names are not terrible, and even might be quite pretty were they not part of the disturbing trend of combining syllables from normal names to make them. The Jaden trend effing kills me though. Adler and Attyson are not terrible, Copelia, Cortlyn and Mahayla don't make me want to vomit,…

Dude, the Orangello and Lemongello joke is super old. BTW Joplyn would be a cool name if it was spelled Joplin.

I understand that sometimes grammar errors are easy to miss when you're in a hurry, but how long does it take to run spellcheck?

Can anyone point me to a source of RDJ's actual writing? I'd like to see something he actually has written.

Do any of these contract changes allow you to be released from your contract?

Yes, but 6 kids in the same class named Kaitlyn and Jaden is AWESOME. Seriously, way to completely ignore any substantive issue and reduce the discussion to utter cultural ignorance by focusing on HIS GIVEN NAME. Go White People!