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Tony Stark, Iron Man: JARVIS --- that was his greatest invention - without JARVIS he couldn't have made his later generation suits.

My title in AD is IT Support Monkey. I figure that's enough.

problem is, we're already paying for bandwidth - now they want to limit how long we can use that bandwidth.

BINGO! We have a winner. If AT&T had adequately provisioned their last mile networks, instead of trying to cram 10K households in a 1K household pipe, it wouldn't matter how much b…

maybe blocking open wireless networks is one of their goals. They want to be able to maximize revenue - if a couple of thousand people have to now actually buy access, rather than …

been there, done that - still working my way out of it. One thing I have learned, though - this all started because I forgot WHY I was doing what I was doing, and work was EXTREMEL…

Has anyone else noticed that Safari does not work with a dotted-decimal ip address?

same thing here - I live a bit North of Atlanta, and work at home most of the time. When I do go into the office, I have a lot of flexibility to determine my hours. I find that I g…

I have five daughters in competitive Gymnastics - they've all been in Gymnastics since around 2-3 years of age(oldest is now 15). I see their 'peers' in the neighborhood and there'…

“There’s going to be a huge bump and a huge increase in the amount and kind of data retailers are going to have.” And government control too? Count me out. There are already plenty…

Funny, but I bet this is exactly the way flat earthers argued earlier in history - "Everyone knows the Earth is flat! Unless you're a trained natural philosopher, keep your mouth s…

KHAAANNN!!!!!

it's not a flaw - you break the laws, you pay the price. it shouldn't be a vacation.

You can do more than that per month, even if you've never participated in sports in your life - see my comment above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008164

I can refute that claim: I went to Marine Corps bootcamp (PI SC), weighing approximately 127 lbs. I left (3 months later) weighing 142lbs - 15 lbs in 3 months. I think if I had gon…