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Still a better civil war than either of Marvel's.

Hah! Wrong, anyone who deals with me uses it or they face my WRATH. I've not only Led By Example, in standardizing around YYYY-MM-DD, but I've agitated for it when others failed to follow suit. Strenuously. Especially in filenames, since unlike the "you're both wrong!" US/Euro formats, ISO-8601...

Cell plans are getting somewhat better. I earlier mentioned that my cable modem service is $59.95/month, which I tolerate because Verizon sucks harder. Still, it's annoying that it's gone up by $10/month over the 10 years I've had it, with minimal improvement in service, mostly because my cell...

"Credit: BBC" on that Moss image, Ars? Really? It pains me that this has to be pointed out, but not all television in the UK is produced by the BBC. http://www.channel4.com/

And this is why I laugh derisively whenever Verizon sticks another FIOS offer in my mailbox, then shove that nonsense into the shredder without even opening it. My Cablevision service may be slow, but it works and it costs exactly $59.95 every month. (When I signed up 10 years ago it was...

This is entirely off-topic, but... I'm talking about later, course-of-the-story things, like creating "Michael" (Trip Tucker). That's the one that sticks out most in my mind. Not split-second decision-making, but planned, deliberate actions that were just terrible, terrible ideas. Because people...

I don't know, I'm with Flit here. Yes, there's a certain amount of "well, if this didn't happen, there wouldn't be a story to tell" plot-driving inherent in the setup of any story like this, but flawed characters aren't automatically lazy writing. You know what I liked best about Stargate...

I have to admit, I literally LOLed at...

I thought those numbers seemed a little weird since they added up to so much greater than 100% (it's certainly possible for them to add up to over 100%, since an individual Steam user may use multiple OSes, but even if Windows 10 is right at 50% they still add up to at least 114%), so I looked...

See, that's the funny thing... it actually scales pretty damn well with tab count. Chrome is worse off in that regard, which is why they rolled Tab Discarding into the core browser to try and ease the pressure of background tabs. They just haven't brought it to Linux. Firefox's biggest problem...

In addition, I know Verizon at least is simply refusing to sell residential DSL service anywhere FiOS is available. (In NYC that's been their policy, anyway: They're phasing out DSL in favor of FiOS, and only selling it as a legacy offering to customers who don't have FiOS as an option... if...

Yeah, I don't know about Eighty-Seven, since Building Broadband Networks says DSL was "developed by Bellcore in 1989". It's possible they were trialing it earlier than that, but it doesn't seem likely they'd have been doing so publicly. (Of course, ISDN is often lumped in with the other...

Oh, it's definitely not mere speculation or inference. It's absolute fact. And it's been going on for a long time. Back in 1998 I was living in Boston (right in the city proper, on the border between Back Bay and South End) in a 40-50 unit apartment building, and I had DSL service through a...

Now, this might actually entice me to leave Sprint for T-Mo, and give up the prepaid Visa card I keep around just for the occasional online order because it charges me $1 per transaction. (With no option to use direct-deposit, I don't have a bank account because the monthly fees are outrageous.)...

Hmm. I dunno, it seems roughly in line with the $92/month (also including all taxes/fees) that I pay at Sprint, for 450/Unlimited/Unlimited on a single 4G LTE Android phone. Slightly better, but as he said he's grandfathered in and Verizon no longer offers unlimited data plans. A new plan with...

See, that's the part of this I don't really see. Contracts are two-year terms, and at the end of every one you have the option to shop around and consider jumping carriers. If someone wants to switch, they should just wait instead of complicating the matter by screwing around with...

It was, but earlier last year I decided to take it back to them. (After they pissed me off by reacting to the President's statement on gay & lesbian marriage rights with the headline, right on the Fox Nation landing page: "WAR ON MARRIAGE") So, since then, it's been War on Fox News ...Where...

Oh, by the by, this article was linked to from researchbuzz.me with the following blurb: "Another day, another dollop of evidence that Java has more holes than a colander convention. Details at Ars Technica." ...Which is almost as amusing as teran's "write once, run everywhere" jab. (But teran...

You are indeed missing something — primarily, the fact that nobody's mentioned "full disclosure" except you. Sorry, skript kiddie, nobody's gonna just hand you an exploit to a known vulnerability. Security vulnerabilities are disclosed to the vendor, not the public. (Except perhaps in cases...