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It was an earlier time. See also "dated" - past participle, past tense of date (Verb)

Ah - after a bit of puzzling, it's a histogram! Time vs. #of sites requiring that much time to load. Without labels, it _is_ nonsense.

As for the long load times, whew, I thought it was just me.

I had pie a couple of months ago. I still want pie.

Have to pack my apartment, so, good timing. http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/c3iii4/key-and-peel...

Dear Google,

Please resume scanning books, old magazines and newspapers, which you "paused" some time back. It was sensible to take a wait-and-see approach until this decision was reached.

Thank you.

If FF16 was pulled, why did it _just_ (Thu, Oct 11, 12:05pm PST) download and try to update my 15.0.1? (WinXP) That made me . . . uncomfortable.

Wasn't some famous gun legislation named after that family? And a followup question: does wife Carol have a sister?

Since we're on a "45" snipe hunt, I'll see your

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Britain%27s_Got_Talent

and raise you

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc237250%28prot.20%2...

Cache, in case it 404s - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.me...

Well, that's awesome. I've liked Tig's stuff for years, too.

If anybody needs it, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:feross....

Yale scientists excitedly, repeatedly explain to anyone in the quad how ketamine vanquishes depression within hours, in, you know, a million million ways (yale.edu)

I've read too many Onion headlines to ever read headlines like this again.

Very belated 2nd point: No tantrums.

Yeah, Google, Marissa left. Get over it. Stop with the petulant feature gutting. Who are you trying to impress?

Both the good times and the bad times pass, because of time. Time exists so that everything doesn't just bunch up all together at once. Exploit that fact.

This is a wrong move. Recentism trashes bidirectional accessibility. Stable standards are not de facto useless.

I'm glad the users now own the means of production. Long time coming. I was sad when they closed the modem pool round-robin number - I dialed it one day a few years ago just to reminisce, and it had been assigned to a real estate holding company.

Will https:// access be available?

+1

Missed opportunity: name it Dexter.

I read this as "Ballmer screaming: There’s no doubt Windows 8 will be a success." Can the Siri voice be changed to Ballmer screaming everything? Has anyone made a "Ballmer" voice for OS X or Windows text-to-speech?

It's still going strong IMO. Quite useful. And not at all distracting ;)

Wow. (Files U.S. patent)

Apparently needs additional reliable sources

Obvious guy says: this situation was entirely Roth's fault, for failing to address the issue through the usual channels by which authors correct misunderstandings of their work: in an essay, an interview, or, oh, I don't know, an open letter to critics, published somewhere substantial. He has now kicked the dog for eating its dog food, then fed it more dog food.

Aren't there bittorrent clients which autodetect and autoblock clients which connect, but neither upload nor download? Doh! Link to a somewhat more informative, less beeby, story: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytr... And the lead researcher http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tpc/home.html Published paper link snaked below! :)

(A previous paper: Analysis of BitTorrent Peers' Behavior and Monitoring Trends http://www.kaspersky.com/images/camilo_andr%D1%83s_gonzalez_... which was based on the Snark Project, updated)

Odd - Google alerts have always taken the better part of a day in my experience. I must be using the slow option. ;)

Old story from Aug 24, 2012, and the school district completely reversed itself Aug 28, 2012. Link at bottom of page: School District Says Deaf Student Not Required to Change Name http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/School-District-Says-D...

What? No paid Wikipedia editors? They're missing a good bet, there. <smirk>

zBox.com solved the problem of not-home package delivery and pickup, with weather-resistant IR-wireless crypto-locked locking boxes in 1999-2000[1]. The USPS, UPS and Fedex driver's existing Palm-based scanners would communicate either by IRDA to the box front panel, or would display a secure unlock code to be typed into the keypad, encrypted based on current time of day, vendor, and customer. zBox had testing deals with the three top package co's, and had funding from USPS and Whirlpool. They went broke and shut down in 2001. I still have an electronics package, and a dev kit.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20010721122740/http://www.zbox.co...

2+2=5 for all liberal values of 4

2+2=null for all conservative values of math and science don't matter.