Many classic SF novels are knit together from previous short stories -- I thought everyone knew this.

Hollywood, depicting a real anarchy. What could go wrong? (That's sarcasm.)

Ten to one, the politically correct SJW crowd will make it unrecognizable. About global warming, or something.

More than bitcoins are missing. If you sold bitcoins through Mt. Gox, back when they peaked at US$1200, Mt. Gox delayed depositing them into your bank account. And delayed. And delayed. And delayed. And eventually went belly up without every paying.

I had to deal with some of this, with an estate I was at the time administrator of.

climate change true-believer-ism

We were told, back when, that CDs had an indefinite lifespan -- essentially permanent.

I remember having talks with the University of Illinois' preservation librarian at the time. He had a much dimmer and less optimistic view of digital media.

"something not on this list" -- ammo.

Is there such a thing (this is a rhetorical question) as a "well intentioned man in the middle party?

Started at the Ms Magazine blog, ended, IIRC, at Huffpo. Notable for the heavy handed moderation protecting and defending Ms. Heidi's recounting of her fears and anxieties. (And ignorance.)

"The reason for the outage is not yet known, "

That's when they patched in the NSA's new tap.

Winter keeps the riff-raff indoors. Summer drives them outside, to prey upon each other and other, relatively more innocent, folks.

We need Globular Cooling. For the Children.

it would mean that a NATO ally had attempted to spy on a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, presumably without the knowledge or approval of U.S. authorities

Why in the world would anyone think this?

I've been in the business since DOS4 and Windows 3.0 were the currently shipping versions. Windows 8 is the only version I have seen where people around you will spontaneously chime in and tell you how much they hate it. Even WinME wasn't like that.

The solution to inadequate IT for the gun control effort is, to say no to the new gun elimination effort.

Or maybe just issue us all little yellow stars to wear, to aid in tracking us.

Our best prank was what we did to his computer. We wrote a small program that ran in the background and drew a dot in the center of the screen on top of whatever was running. This dot grew bigger over time; at first it was just one pixel wide, but after a week it was over twenty.

That's evil. Can I have a copy?

Anyone else reminded of Phil Katz?