He used to be an adventurer, but then he took a mine to the knee...

It's clear from the grammatical errors in the response that the writer is not a native English speaker. I'm guessing that the review process is actually outsourced to India.

"Now running my own business, I didn't have time to spend hours a day fiddling with my OS–I just needed it to work."

When you have multiple SATA buses, or multiple external TB enclosures, you can use more than 6Gb of the bandwidth. Here's a blurb from LaCie about one of their enclosures:

You've never heard of Top Gun? Or the Blue Angels?

You mean like the article about Makerbots the other day?

We won Best Documentary at the 2009 San Diego Film Festival, and a couple of other awards during that festival season. I'm one of the executive producers. Hope you like it!

Check out American Harmony on Netflix. http://www.americanharmonythemovie.com

The lasik picture is incorrectly captioned. The picture appears to be taken after the corneal flap has already been cut, and is actually during the last part of the surgery where the flap is put back in place after the underlying corneal tissue has been lased. The probe in the picture is used to flip the flap back…

GANNET JACUZZI ALL THE WAY! WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?

Battleship != Destroyer. The headline lead me to believe I'd see a monstrous gun platform, and I was sadly disappointed.

You can. Mouseover the poster's name/icon and you get a heart to click.

You should check out the award winning documentary American Harmony, also on Netflix streaming. http://www.americanharmonythemovie.com http://www.facebook.com/americanharmony

Right, because São Paulo is totally not dangerous, and anybody with enough money/status to be a kidnapping target doesn't drive around in a bulletproof car, and there aren't similar gunfights in the streets, and it isn't the city with the highest density of helicopter pads in the world because anyone who can afford it…

See Mythbusters for the relevant airplane experiment. It takes an initial hole of a few square feet to cause a catastrophic structural blowout. Bullet holes don't do it.

You people are so tragically hip, it not even funny. When you want to graduate to a bag that actually keeps your multi-thousand dollar laptop safe and allows you to work in harsh environments, look no further than the Higher Ground Trillium (formerly the Back Office by Shaun Jackson Design):

SQL injections don't take talent. It's trivial, and only works when the target is too stupid to have implemented input validation to check for SQL queries in input fields.

*Howard The Duck 2*

You really should read Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love".

COTD. Seriously.