And mountain climbers.

And bikers in urban areas.

And people who have a temper (emotional stress shortening their lifespan don't' cha know..).

And soon, those who sit too much. Who don't do their expected exercise first thing in the morning. Who don't live however Our Exalted Overlords want us to live.

Thanks but no thanks to all this garbage.

Yup... "No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" -- George Orwell, Animal Farm -- apparently taken once again as an instruction manual instead of a warning.

I think the mention of the TSA saving us from terrorism pushed that comment into obvious sarcasm.

So... whoosh...

For now at least about:config --> browser.urlbar.update1 turns that ugly thing back off. From web searching, it looks like it was renamed on the nightlies around version 74, so expect that will probably go away soon and we'll be stuck with it.

Also: browser.urlbar.trimURLs if you don't care for the hiding of https and www.

Obviously this is the work of the /. editors greatest nemesis: Lady Redundant Woman.

How exactly is this constitutional? Congress presumably by law granted the Executive the right to make the loans and charge the interest -- I seriously doubt there's a "but waive it whenever you feel like" clause... if there is, the article definitely doesn't say it.

I know, I know... the FYTW clause strikes again. So annoying.

(And before someone starts frothing in a rage -- I don't think this is a terrible idea for an economic stimulus given the stupid amounts of debt folks are apparently running up, not going to argue those causes. I just want the government to use the proper process, not act in a dictatorial fashion whenever it feels like it).

They don't have much choice. SB826 says they need to get to 50% by 2021.

2003 Monte Carlo SS -- 560,000 miles.

Yadda yadda, plural of anecdote is not data, yadda.

Australia? Must have been right after those Germans bombed Pearl Harbor....

(Forget it, he's on a roll...)

And that's how these things would normally be handled here as well.

In fact, it is mentioned in the article that it *did* go to small claims first, where the plaintiff asked for a ridiculous court-maximum of $6000 (for a $75 online purchase). That got found in favor of the defendant after the plantiff apparently admitted to destroying/disposing of the printer and had no further evidence of it not being as described in the sale.

Only after he lost in small claims did he somehow then take it to additional courts. I have a few thoughts based on the Indiana Supreme Court actually knowing this guy by name and commenting on his usage of the courts -- but the words "libel suit" are coming to my mind so I'll just keep my impressions to myself.

Well, for the last month I've had my Mini which just sits there as an iTunes server run out of memory. Never happened before.

Trying to watch a bit with Activity Monitor, the kernel_task balloons up over 4Gb, Finder shows as non-responsive, the File Cache is only around 1Gb -- and "Compressed" is huge. Free memory the last time I caught it was about 16Mb out of 16Gb.

Given its role, I expect the File Cache to grow -- but either it isn't or Activity Monitor isn't reporting it as such, as it only shows a few Gb in normal operation and doesn't show at all when the problem state is hit. And even if it did eat all the RAM for caching -- if it can't shrink it down without hanging all the user processes then that's certainly a bug.

Otherwise, my assumption is that something is leaking in the kernel over time so the system can't find it to clean it up, everything else gets shrunk/compressed as it can and the reclamation hogs the processor in the worst case. Again, haven't seen this before Mavericks and based on some support threads, I don't think I'm alone.

It is the Dread Pirate Roberts, after all.

Good night Wesley -- good work, I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Oh yea of little faith in California:

http://www.acc.com/legalresources/quickcounsel/UCCTR.cfm

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/landfills/landfills.htm

All part of AB32.

Unless you are Neil McAllister, it would be nice if you'd signify that you're quoting his article in The Register rather than just plagiarize it.

Compare http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/30/microsoft_surface_sales_disaster/ for all but the last sentence.

Yeah, that sounds much more efficient. Nothing like letting the developer work through the (bad) optimization design, code it... get the test failure and then waste more time debugging it instead of just warning them off up front.

Belts and suspenders -- test your corner cases, but document the pitfalls.