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On that subject, the EU passes animal welfare laws (if a farmer's chicken van is overloaded by one bird the gaulieters will fine him thousands) ... but allows muslims to be exempt from them and even supports this at public expense.

However what I was mainly referring to is this kind of shit. As it says, "the authorities had been unwilling to get involved in minority community matters for fear of being culturally insensitive." Indeed. They see any form of accommodation (or appeasement) as weakness and this just emboldens them more.

Squatter, or just extreme slacker?

When I first reached out to google for the definition of squatter, I got a bit confused as to where the illegality lay[gr.?]. The definition of squatter hereseems to express two types, those with legal, and illegal. When I switched the search to cybersquatter, I then understood more about where the laws start, (though seems a amendment may be needed) here in the United States, Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act passed in 1999, an amendment to the Trademark Act 1946 also known as the Lanham Act.

Where am I going with this? How does one determine good faith? How do you differentiate between a person who might struggle to get it up (specially if a deadline looms overhead, further if that deadline is tightened) and one who is squatting maliciously, awaiting a time when they can resell the slot to someone else who has developed the application, put in the sweat, time, thought, tears, hours, etc...
To end with a wee bit of entertainment amidst all this legal jumbo-gumbo, figured I might throw a little head-nod to J.R. Bob "Dobbs" (not MS's failed project). Slacking is an artform, a religion, one that many take quite seriously. So much so they used it in the naming of a Linux distro. Slacker? Or Ill-memes willful disconsolation?

I'm currently using a Netgear WGR614L with Tomato. It's been smooth sailing since I got it. If my kids would stop unplugging the router I'd have a semi-impressive uptime number to post too.

You're recommending Ati graphics for Linux? you have to be either an Ati fanboi, Ati employee, or totally trolling.

nVidia kicks Ati's ass for Linux.

This guy explains why pretty well:
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

Largest insolvent economy. Worthless army. Will they invade China? No. Northcom will, instead, be used to suppress revolt at home as the shit comes down and the birds come home to roost.

Everybody who is really concerned with the matter knows that in 36 months - or less - there will be NO ability by the US to pay. Empty promise on worthless paper.

Hence, the unprecedented activity of the past week:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8289302.stm

The insolvency of the principal banking houses happened 25 years ago - and was hidden behind successive speculative bubbles. The kind that say 1 share of Google is worth 475 USD of trade in real goods and services.
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/10/real-reason-giant-insolvent-banks-arent.html

I already posted about this over a week ago on my blog: http://theastronomist.blogspot.com/2009/09/entropy-of-universe.html

The google folks seem to disagree with you:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/06/palm-pre-launching-with-google-search.html

Having the Linux version of
Microsoft's standard be clearly inferior will just make Linux seem clearly
inferior (and justifiably so).

Mono isn't chasing compatibility with proprietary Windows Libraries. Instead, the focus is on the language/compiler implementation, runtime and important parts of the Base Class Libraries. You should read this post, which was quite popular recently.

Actually the bigger Mono projects don't even work on Windows. So, doesn't that suggest that developers who write code on Mono don't really care about proprietary Windows mechanisms?

As far as i know, 120 Hz is needed for 2 reasons:

1) Least common denominator (or whatever the correct term is for this) between 30 (interlaced), 60 (progressive), and 24 (cinema projectors). This way movies can be played without the flicker you may notice on a standard TV. This has some more info if you are interested.

2) Some people do notice a flicker on 60 Hz (I notice this with CRT monitors, but do not see this on LCD monitors running at 60 Hz or even CRT TVs running at 60 Hz interlaced, this is probably because of static images on monitors, but constantly changing images on TVs at a lower resolution, and LCD displays do not do a full refresh every cycle, they only change the pixels that need to change).

I see no need for 240 Hz, I've never heard of anyone noticing flicker on anything above 75 Hz. PAL is 25 fps, which does not divide evenly into 240 Hz or 120 Hz, so to get PAL, NTSC, and cinema to all divide evenly you would need 600 Hz? Honestly, I can't imagine the "flicker" going from PAL to 120 Hz would be noticeable.

>>>The last thing I want is Comcast controlled by the government. Government has no business in private Market.

Agree 100%, except in cases of monopolies like the electric company, natural gas company, phone company, or..... the internet company. Until such time as the Comcast monopoly is broken with 3 or 4 other alternatives, the government has every right to control it, in order to prevent the kind of abuses found in this blog - http://comcastissue.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-02-01T08%3A27%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

Now the DoD is going to pay Microsoft to develop a new networking protocol for them (http://defensenews-updates.blogspot.com/2009/10/lockheed-martin-awarded-31m-research.html).

Wonder what licensing fees MS will charge for the "Military Networking Protocol" (https://www.fbo.gov/download/afa/afa738a71c6cbdf8024d54ec5e141a1a/2008_10_28_mnp_baa_final.pdf) or whether they'll even allow FOSS apps to license MNP?

That about sums it up.

I'll keep watching for now.

In case you missed the final reference ... compare SG:U ship to Not of This World album cover.

Oh, also, with all the kids in SG:U, I keep wanting to call it "Stargate University."

Bodybugg does not measure heart rate but a few other exercise-related data
(acceleration, heat flux, galvanic skin response, skin temperature)
http://www.bodybugg.com/science_behind_bodybugg.php

The data has been hacked by some guy:
http://bodybugghacks.blogspot.com/
it still requires some work to use it thought

You're absolutely right. No other countries have racists or xenophobes or bigots or religious nutjobs, of which Israel is totally comprised of. Nope, that's totally not biased anti-semitic (er, I'm sorry, anti-Israeli, lol) cherrypicking of the idiots that are bound to occure in any and all particular population that we should try to move beyond in order to enjoy a peaceful and fufilling relationship with all other nations and acknoledge the beauty of other lands and cultures. Hey, I think you're forgeting one more equally relevant link.

Here's the correct link:

The Problem with Motion

It's good to see that a few fortunate (i.e., very rich) people will get the chance to go out into space. But when will space travel become as cheap as driving to the corner store? The problem with space travel is that the aerospace industry is still using the same chemistry-based propulsion technologies that first gave us the ability to fly. Using rocket propulsion for space flight is dangerous, primitive and extremely expensive. There is no way we are going to colonize the moon or the solar system beyond with chemical rockets.

Be of good cheer, however. The aerospace and energy industries will soon undergo a seismic paradigm shift. A recent reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion leads to the inevitable conclusion that we are immersed in a huge lattice of energetic particles. Soon we'll have vehicles that will move almost anywhere at tremendous speeds, negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring any damage due to inertial effects. Floating cities, unlimited clean energy, earth to Mars in hours, New York to Beijing in minutes. That's the future of energy and travel.

The Problem with Motion

Whereas it's relatively easy to crack the DRM on, for example, MobiPocket or Microsoft Reader books (and probably ePub by now). So the DRM'd formats are easier to pirate than the previous "analog"-analog format.

Yep. Epub and PDF (Adobe Digital Editions) can be cracked using Inept. Check it out!

Reality check:

• In the European Union and in California, anonymous businesses are illegal.
• The listed registrant owns the domain. If you're using a "privacy service", you don't own the domain; you're just leasing it from the privacy service. Customers of RegisterFly, the domain registrar that collapsed, found this out the hard way. Many customers lost domains in that collapse.
• Google considers "private registration" as a factor in determining whether a site meets their "quality guidelines". Google can't be as tough on this as they should be, though, because Google's revenue model, AdWords, requires a large number of ad-heavy sites. Bing could be tougher; it's too soon to tell.

We take an even harder line on anonymous businesses at SiteTruth, considering them "bottom feeders".

Realistically, putting your real name and address in WHOIS info doesn't hurt you unless you're a crook. My real name and address are on all my domains, and I get maybe one phone call every two years, perhaps a letter or two a year, that seem to come from WHOIS data. I had one threat, back in the 1990s; he's out of business and I'm still here. Any e-mail spam is being filtered out by the usual filters. If you're paranoid, get a P.O. box; that's legal.

So it has not yet completed peer review.

Can't say I'd be surprised if it's supported: a certain number of people won't build antibiodies. My wife and I found out this year that I am immunodeficient: I've had pneumonia four times from February through June, fortunately I didn't require hospitalization and suffered no lung damage because of it. I'm sure there's a fair number of people out there who are immunodeficient and don't know it. In my case, we didn't know until June, and we were talking about getting me a pneumonia immunization to prevent further episodes. It would have been wasted vaccine as my body wouldn't build antibodies at that time, we don't know if it will now, now that I've started treatment: that's the next set of tests.

I do know that, of the last five winter flu seasons, I didn't get a vaccine the first year and got really sick. Same with my wife. I've gotten the vaccine each subsequent year and not gotten sick, same with my wife. We don't know right now if I'll be able to get it (or swine flu or pneumonia or tetanus) this year, we'll wait and see.

I also started blogging about it at http://pneumoboy.blogspot.com/

Israel commits crimes that make Iranian transgression look like shoplifting by comparison.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vjJ5fOtvksM/SWYvR4IFthI/AAAAAAAAAAU/AcXQzvRoxsw/S1600-R/headline9637e7.jpg

They are a house of horrors, paid for by the endless U.S. debt.

Who they are:
http://www.itisapartheid.org/
http://politicaltheatrics.org/2009/10/01/binyamin-council-head-jews-arabs-should-have-separate-roads/
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israeli-Army-T-Shirts-Mock-Killing-Palestinian-Women-And-Children-During-Gaza-Offensive/Article/200903315245946

What they do:
http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2009/09/30/israeli-army-terrorizes-teenagers-inside-a-school
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198149221&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

The four-ton monsters, made of Preseli Spotted Dolerite â" a chemically altered igneous rock harder than granite â" were mined in the Preseli Mountains in Pembrokeshire and then rolled, dragged, and floated the 200 miles to the site on the banks of the Avon in Wiltshire."

Four-ton stones are miniscule compared to the 50-ton trilithons at big Stonehenge or the over 1100-ton Stone of the South at Baalbek in Lebanon.

It boggles the mind that primitive people would want to erect such monumental structures when smaller stones would have been orders of magnitude easier to cut and transport. As the Romans, the Aztecs and the Maya have shown, it's possible to create impressive monuments with smaller stones. In my opinion, some among the ancient priesthoods had secret knowledge of a technology that allowed them to levitate and transport huge stones over great distances. Too bad they died without leaving a record of it. I have excellent cause to believe that the secret of levitation will be uncovered soon.

There is clear evidence that we are swimming in an ocean of clean energy, lots and lots of it. A new form of transportation and energy production technology will arrive soon, one based on the realization that we are immersed in an immense lattice of energetic particles. This is a consequence of a reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion. Soon, we'll have vehicles that can move at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring damages due to inertial effects. Floating cities, unlimited clean energy, earth to Mars in hours, New York to Beijing in minutes... That's the future of energy and travel.

The Problem With Motion

A huge amount of money is spent around the world for new environmentally friendly transportation and energy production technologies. This all well and good but all this money is being wasted. There is a much better way and here is why.

We are on the verge of a breakthrough in physics because there is reason to believe that we are swimming in a huge sea of squeakly clean energy, ready for the taking. A recent reevaluation of our understanding of the causality of motion leads to the inescapable conclusion that we are immersed in an immense lattice of energetic particles. Soon, we'll have vehicles that can move almost anywhere at tremendous speeds and negotiate right angle turns without slowing down and without incurring any damage due to inertial effects. Floating cities, earth to Mars in hours, New York to Beijing in minutes... That's the future of energy and travel.

You don't understand motion even if you think you do.

The Problem With Motion

>>>terrorizing overpaid CEOs and executive boards with the guillotine.

Shooting them in the head would be easier. I propose we start with the CEO of Comcast's Fraud and Abuse Department. Not convinced? Read more here: http://comcastissue.blogspot.com/search/label/Chat%20with%20Abuse%20Department and keep reading

Here's a picure of the device... also proving the Japanse thought of this first.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/Sf3LgMwS29I/AAAAAAAAGzk/jku9mmgJBRk/s400/bra+as+mask.jpg

I was speaking less to his politics and more towards the way he portrays himself. On his blog he seems to be almost as or more concerned about how people see him than his issues (see sidebar for example). It's like he's trying to show off his expert skills at getting a reaction... And this legal action and the resulting inevitable backlash (you don't think he wants that) will give him plenty of material for his soapbox.

Their control method seems very crude to me. They have no control over the bugs little brain at all. If you want it to take off, give it an electric jolt, and it will fly away. Like hitting cow with a stick. Sure, that works. If you want it to stop, give it a bigger jolt, and it will drop out of the air. Like hitting a someone over the head with a bigger stick. Left and right: shock one wing so it will twitch and not work properly for a moment while the other wing goes on, and voila, steering. This is not neuro-science, but animal cruelty.

By the way, something similar, only more funny, has been done with humans recently: http://thekeyidea.blogspot.com/2009/08/controlling-navigation-by-ear-pulling.html

random British citizens

Where "random" means "that coincidentally go out of their way to poke around in government computer systems."

Of course extradition happens from the US to the UK. First random Google hit .

Actually, "Anonymous coward" is exactly the term the real Blarney actually used on his blog, writing "I successfully obtained, thanks to the masterful advocacy of Matthew Richardson, in the High Court today compelling an anonymous coward to stop pretending to be me on Twitter and to reveal his or her identity.".

But, then, wasn't this guy pretending to be me?

His blog. http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/

Now go comment internet and Donal. May anonymous never find offense with what you are doing, or this might just be throwing water onto scalding oil.

Actually, "Anonymous coward" is exactly the term the real Blarney actually used on his blog, writing "I successfully obtained, thanks to the masterful advocacy of Matthew Richardson, in the High Court today compelling an anonymous coward to stop pretending to be me on Twitter and to reveal his or her identity.".

Doesn't really qualify as an answer. Point out where Google claimed that they would magically take n-party interactions and make them as simple as two-party. No answer, eh?

"It's concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content--it allows for both collaboration and communication." - Lars Rasmussen

Google announced Wave as an all-in-one collaboration tool that could replace email and IM. They often implied it would be as huge a step forward as email and IM were.

See subject line above & this guide (specifically Post #20) in regards to ComboFix (& SmitFraudFix + ProcessExplorer)

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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 & even VISTA, plus make it "fun-to-do", via CIS Tool Guidance (&, beyond):

http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2662

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Between those 3 programs?

Well - There really isn't much (heck, anything "malware" really) that you CANNOT "get rid of" (other than memory resident rootkits, because you can "blow out" bootsector originated types & that post #20 goes into that as well)...

APK

P.S.=> Another STRONG measure of defense in that guide is the HOSTS file: Using it, you can "suck in" these infectors/infestors, & not have to worry about them "getting orders from the mothership", because IF/WHEN you use an UP TO DATE HOSTS FILE? You block off their ability to even 'talk back' to mama...

How so??

WELL - IF/WHEN you add in the domainnames/hostnames of the "command & control" servers that botnets use? Then, the workstation with said newly amended HOSTS file CANNOT EVEN REACH THEM FOR NEW "ORDERS", period.

Same thing would work on servers also, no questions asked.

(There are plenty of GOOD reliable & reputable sources for that kind of information, as to getting a good currently updated HOSTS file, & my personal favs are SpyBot "Search & Destroy" via its "immunize" feature, ZDNet's Mr. Dancho Danchev's blogspot here -> http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/ & also SRI, here -> http://mtc.sri.com/ as well as other reputable & kept-up-to-date HOSTS files listed here @ wikipedia -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file )

This technique, works... & on a VERY simple principle:

"IF YOU CAN'T GO INTO THE KITCHEN, YOU CAN'T GET BURNED..."

This can also be done via DENY commands in a routers' routing tables also, as an alternate to HOSTS file usage, but personally, I'd recommend doing it in BOTH places, for added "layered security" (if not also adding these to various browsers' "block lists", such as IE's "restricted zones" &/or Opera's urlfilter.ini-filter.ini files as well as FireFox's too)... apk

Thanks for putting that out there for folks. I just have a love for Bowie in that film. Had a pretty heavy influence on me as a little kid. Specially all the technologies that he came out with to financially support his ultimate goal. In particular I remember being quite excited by the idea of holographic mini-cubes of music (almost like cubed Nico Nico Nicorri Jelly's)Now something else to add to my never ending list of must re-reads. And as far as Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep....
I can't dismiss the cinematography in Bladerunner, specially considering the time period that the movie was made, but it really can't hold a candle to the absolute mind-digger that is PKD's work. I think he might be an author who is better off read. I wish they could have included the mood-altering box that to me seemed to be a central device in that story.

It does 1200x1200dpi and automatic duplexing, which is better than any of the even remotely affordable color lasers I'm glad I didn't get a bigger laser printer... even with this one the lights dim and the UPS clicks on momentarily whenever I turn it on or when it warms up to start a print job.

I originally wanted to go the multifunction route, and spent a long time jumping between the Linux printer compatibility list and the http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html">SANE compatibility list. Hardly any multifunction device was supported at all by both :/

If you're looking to go multifunction as well with a color inkjet (which supposedly does a better job with color prints than color laser printers) and a scanner, it looks like some of the Canon PIXMA line seems to have anything going for it as far as Linux support. No personal experience with it, though we might eventually get one to complement the B&W laser.

I'm willing to bet that if you venture outside of the city, the outage rates are comparable.

As for oil lamps, that's not backwards at all. It's called preparation. You see, those flashlights need batteries and generally will not light up a room for several hours at a time. Those batteries start become scared when 100,000 people start attempting to replace theirs. Anyways, the economics are in favor of the oil lamps and candles. You can get some pretty decent candles that will last 2 or 3 nights at 4 or 5 hours a night for around 3 dollars. A 20 dollar oil lamp which will look pretty stylish on the fireplace mantel will burn a half pint to a pint of kerosene or Liquid Paraffin lamp oil that goes for between 5 and 7 dollars a gallon for about 7-8 hours. Considering that there are 8 pints in a gallon, it gets dark around 5 and you hit the sack around 10, that's about 11 days of emergency lighting for the costs of one or two sets of batteries. They can also be used to set the mood is you want to get naughty with the misses.

Anyways, it appears I'm not the only one who swears by oil lamps. I guess maybe you are just to inexperienced to be prepared.

I remember reading about this a year or so ago, and Vernor had bought the software from an architectural company which was going out of business (first sale from Autodesk to Architectural firm here and here. However, I think part of what Autodesk is bitching about is that it was a subscription upgrade (upgrades are free for software on subscription), so that it was (in their lawyers' eyes) a "free" copy, tied to the original version purchased. But first sale? Of course. The architects payed good money to get next year's version free, Autodesk provided it to them (at a one-time cost without limitation on how long the next copy can be used), and it was resold. If anything, Vernor should not be held responsible for the resale- the no-longer-existent architectural firm should be. Of course, corporations don't have family members or estates to fleece after they are gone. People do.

Do you have any suggested reading for me?

A good place to start for some not-too-numbers-heavy basic ideas would be John K Galbraith, The Affluent Society (or it might have been Almost Everybody's Guide to Economics -- they're dated, but they're focused on basic ideas of how economies work). John Galbraith (and to a lesser extent his son James) was a great writer of popular economics tracts, with reasonably middle-of-the-road politics (not one of the so-called "freshwater economists" that are typical of the hard-right, free-market-fundamentalist position that underlies a lot of our current government).

Having started there, you can look at some of Paul Krugman's work for again-popular treatments of more interesting problems; "The Return of Depression Economics" is a great book.

You also wouldn't go too wrong by lurking on some of the well-reputed economists' blogs; you'll pick up a fair amount by osmosis. Krugman's NY Times blog is good; Greg Mankiw's blog, and especially Brad DeLong. Like I said, you'll want a couple popular books under your belt, but from there since a lot of interesting economists these days are hip to the Internet and blog a lot, you can pick up a huge amount by watching them actually at work.

When you have a bit of background, you can also pick up an awful lot just by reading American history, too. Economists LOOOOVE to talk about the Great Depression; it was basically the equivalent of Einstein and Newton rolled into one for the field.

One more thing: you'll probably realize that there's a very major rift in the economics profession right now, divided between the so-called "freshwater economists" and "saltwater economists." With a little bit of reading you'll probably be able to identify which camp any given opinion falls into pretty quickly.

Anyway, hope this is helpful, it's vastly vague and incomplete, but at this point I don't even remember half of what I've flipped through at one point or another. Learning comes from everywhere :D

tragic, horrible, I agree and I too want it stopped. Its just an argument of how.
So here we are, you and I, arguing on how... I wonder if you really want to help or are just venting. Heres what I have done. What have you done. I mean that to provoke goodness in you, not to continue our argument. You and I are close to agreement I imagine....
Founder
blog
I founded a facebook group on "gizmo to keep kids from dying in hot cars", but I dumped facebook so I cant find it.

read my blog. You decide.
http://gpscruise1.blogspot.com/

Tha't old news people.

Anyone with half a brain has already installed on his jailbreaked iPhone the modified /etc/hosts from i-phone-home.blogspot.com.

> How does such retarded tripe get modded up?

Well, at least yours hasn't been, yet.

> ... other people's property ...

And since when does does other people's "property" rights expire after a certain time after they die? You play the "property" card badly. There is property, and then there is property.

You should read the entirety of that blog. Not just the post I linked to.

> Copyright ensures that people who can write good books get paid so
> they don't have to find a real job working in a supermarket or other
> manual labor.

In theory. But that doesn't mean that their work cannot be used within the boundaries of law; the case in question being one of them, it seems.

And your use of the word "ensures" makes me think of another point made in that blog: just because something is under copyright doesn't magically imbue it with commercial value. The converse of that is true, also.

Hack depicted here for single slice toaster:

This is also an interesting development because Costis achieved the same goal as the decapping of the original GameBoy CPU, but with vastly cheaper equipment (< $100) and probably in less time (< 1 week).

Glitching is a neat technology; it's most famously used by "card unloopers" for smartcard hacking, and is also used by modern Wii modchips. Travis Goodspeed gave a neat presentation at DefCon 2009 about glitching, and has released some open-source hardware which will eventually support glitching target microcontrollers. Given the right software, that board alone would probably have been enough to perform this hack.

Once you find an app that interests you, it just takes one click to acquire it and have it installed on your iPhone.

One click. Oh, and then enter your password. Which better be secure, since it's linked to your credit card number. And a good secure password includes upper case, lower case, numbers, and symbols randomly interspersed, making it a pain in the ass to enter into the iPhone. The app is free? Apple doesn't care, they damn well want your password.

As far as the customers are concerned, the iTunes App Store is a smashing success.

My first generation iPhone is perfectly capable of recording low frame-rate video. Apps have been developed to do exactly that. Where exactly do I download them? Oops. I don't get to, Apple refused to let them ship.

iTunes for Windows is festering crap, and the ITMS on the iPhone itself sucks for following a podcast. I need a dedicated podcast tracking and downloading system. Hey, there's an app for that! Oops, denied. But Apple kindly changed their mind, and simply required the developer to remove all of the useful functionality and turning it into a crippled streaming solution..

I'm a big fan of text adventure games, and I loved that iPhone Frotz could download games from the IFArchive. Oops, Apple disagreed and the functionality had to be removed..

I'd dig an e-book reader that gave be easy access to everything in Project Gutenberg. Apple's okay with that, so long as "everything" means minus historically important books about sex.

I sure would love an app to give me a better interface to Google Voice! Rejected. Remote control of a bittorrent client (not bittorrent on the phone itself, mind you). Rejected. I'm an adult, maybe I'd like some immature but "adult" apps. Rejected.

I'm a customer, and as far as I'm concerned the iTunes App Store a bland mush, not a smashing success. I'm coming up on the end of my contract with AT&T, and I'll be getting something different, something that serves me, not Apple and AT&T. I'm looking at the Android options and the Pre. I was hearing good things about the Pre, but this makes me very wary.

I wouldn't recommend Websense to anyone. They have a long history of stealth web robots which intentionally disobey the robots.txt standard.

I used the technique below to get all my list data out. It's pretty easy to extend that to pull out the document blobs from SQL as well:
http://solitarysoftwareguy.blogspot.com/

heavy-handed laws that attempt to usurp the inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet.

Why y'all be hating on the Klingons? It'll only lead to the Klingon Power Party stealing votes away from the Pirate Party.

• http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-poland-at-least-they-left.html
• http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-of-lublin-broken-token.html

• http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-poland-at-least-they-left.html
• http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/09/university-of-lublin-broken-token.html

I am not sure what you mean. They don't have any extradition treaty that I know of with Cuba, so technically the US doesn't HAVE to extradite him

The US does have an extradition treaty with Venezuela, signed in 1922, and it was them that requested his extradition not Cuba.

I think its a pretty hypocritical move to NOT extradite him. Then again, its a pretty hypocritical move to participate in torture prosecutions for waterboarding and then use it on someone else too. Especially hypocritical to claim to respect the law and uphold the law, and NOT fully investigate claims of illegal torture....

Ooh I agree. What torture advocates don't know, or won't admit, is that even Genera George Washington forbid his troops from torturing prisoners. And waterboarding is torture, even the NAZIs and Japanese found it effective in WWII.

to harbor a criminal who was useful to the powers that be... seems about par for the course.

I agree again. The US even supported mass murderers.

Falcon