Random anonymous readers can basically whine about a non-issue and get a story on /. now?

I've been away for too long. And, clearly, the current /. management wants to make sure I, and other old time readers, stay away.

I think it's time for Taco, Neal, and Hemos to come back and clean house, because this isn't responsible in any way, shape, or form.

I demand a CowboyNeal option for $99/minute.

Not in recent memory, but the Apple II, the Macintosh II, Mac Classic II, Mac Color Classic II, and the Mac LC II all definitely came out.

The MSRP is rarely the rationale for the brick-and-mortar stores charging the MSRP. The reality is, Amazon can charge much less because it doesn't need much else other than a crew of stockpeople, programmers, and a shipping department. B&N has to pay for multiple people to keep the stores open, even when no customers are around, and keep it nice and tidy, police for shoplifting, pay for people to staff the cafes, etc. It's simple economics. Amazon is going to charge less because it costs them less to stock the book and sell it to you.

I've used the same sort of device for my student assistants to clock in and out with. Your fingerprints are scanned, but not stored. A pattern is built for the computer to scan in the future when you use the timeclock - your print isn't there.

They're using biometrics because they're concerned about students logging each other in. That was my rationale (what are you going to do? Cut off your finger for your friend to clock you in?).

That said: Those scanners suck, especially with smaller fingers (my female employees had great trouble with that thing). I moved to a keypad-based device. It takes a touch more babysitting to keep everyone honest, but I leave it in a fairly public area.

First to mention it, yes, but I immediately thought of ghost hacking when I read the headline. When external memory is feasible then I'll start wondering where my electronic eyes and basset hound are.

Keep in mind that he was a teenager in the series. Nothing against any teens here, but I deal with teenagers on a regular basis at work and Dekker had it down in terms of his portrayal of a teenage John Connor in 2009.

The series was a new story (clearly you didn't watch it long enough to see what was going on), and it was also one that kept beating down Jim Cameron's incessant deterministic attitude from the movies (which really made me happy). Sarah so wants her world to be fated, she tells Charlie that it's her fate to die of cancer... and then there's no cancer (but maybe she's sick... maybe). Those of us who found Jim Cameron's deterministic attitude sickening find the way Sarah's "fate" changes in the series to be pleasantly needed. The series is a completely different animal.

Oh, and the new movie (this isn't a spoiler - it's in a lot of the pre-release stuff)? It's all about keeping Kyle alive so John can send him back in time. It's not a new story. If they kill Kyle in this flick, THEN it's a new story. :)

A high school classmate of mine works at Fox and told me not to watch anything online which I fear will be cancelled because they don't count those views.

I then had to ask him why would Fox put it up for viewing if they weren't counting the views in the ratings and he couldn't answer.

The reality is: Fox and the other networks (with the odd, possible exception of CBS, which makes noises that makes me think they are beginning to get it) just don't understand how to handle new media or how to place a series in front of an audience in a way that it reaches the optimal number of eyes and works will for the owners of said eyes to watch the show on their time.

Personally: I recorded it and then sent it to my Apple TV (I just can't stand staring at the computer screen when I have a 50" TV in the other room). Even if I missed an episode, I grabbed it off of iTunes as opposed to watching it on Hulu. But, that's just me. Viewed live, recorded, streamed, or downloaded, Fox (and the others) should be counting those numbers.

Actually... no, we don't.

The series is in a different timeline. T3 never existed in their world and it's almost guaranteed that Salvation doesn't (McG looked into reconciling the two and the show's producers told him not to worry about it).

So, there is one timeline in the movies and one in the series and, to add to that, there are at least three discrete future timelines occurring in the course of the series (Derek's, Jesse's, and the timeline created in the final episode).

So, no, we have no idea how this was going to end.

Yeah... I have to chime in and agree: You missed the point. He purposefully didn't want to give any to Sarah. It was details, and jokes, like those that made it very easy for me to watch the show.

I have to admit: I never liked the franchise. I was dragged to T2 by my friends when it came out, and I completely ignored T3 until a year or so ago when I grabbed it on the DVR (and, boy, was that bad). So I wasn't willing to give T:SCC a chance until (of all things) my wife wanted to watch it. And, damn, it was good! After RTFA, I can agree: There were no concessions for new viewers. It's work to talk up a series to a bunch of friends or co-workers and then expect them to jump in. Even BSG had the (regular) catch-up specials that could be streamed or downloaded for free (I found myself regularly referring friends to those). T:SCC had nothing like that. But, it had style. And it had substance. And, as someone who has watched every damn episode again in the past few months, I can tell you that there was a clear plot line and a clear view of where the story was going. If you were too impatient to allow the story to be told, or have a hard time allowing for plot lines to unravel, then I suspect that most science fiction on TV isn't for you. If you enjoy a bit of philosophy and psychology (which IS a science, folks) mixed in with robot babes fighting each other in an elevator, then I suggest hunting down the complete series box set when it (inevitably) comes out. Maybe enough disc sales will prompt Warner Bros (who own the series) to do something more with it.

If it's higher ed, then your school will probably have an ombudsman, who is the student representative in cases like this. If you are in high school then you need to contact the principal or assistant principal (whichever one usually handles student affaris - usually the assistant). You should contact that office immediately and see what the process is to get your notes back from the instructor. I work at a university and I can tell you this wouldn't fly. You will need to look and see if your backpack is considered private property (your locker, if you have one, isn't - it's school property). If worse comes to worse and the administration doesn't listen to you, and you are in high school, have your parents take it up with the parent-teacher association.

Since Chrome and Safari are based on WebKit, I suspect we might see Apple pick up a lot of this if it takes off. The Safari 4 beta and the current nightly builds of WebKit already have the ability to save "Safari Web Applications" on the desktop. It's always possible Apple will work with Google to merge Safari and Chrome, but I think that's a long shot.