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  1. Re:It's a battle and not the war.. on ACLU Wins, No Sexting Charges For NJ Teens · · Score: 1

    $4500 is thousands of dollars.

  2. Re:Simple an EPIRB on Gadgets You Backpack Around the World With? · · Score: 1

    I second the water purifier. Saved me lots of cash on my 2 month trek through S. America.

  3. Re:Ummm. The First Amendment? on Congressman Calls for Arrest of Security Researcher · · Score: 1

    The Latin term dominium eminens ("supreme lordship") was used in the 17th century by Grotius to describe the concept explained above.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain#Etymol ogy

  4. You lay down with dogs... on Microsoft Unveils Online Advertising Service · · Score: 1

    you wake up with fleas.

  5. Subscribe to the Dealmac Mailing list on Finding Holiday Discounts on iPods? · · Score: 1

    At http://dealmac.com/ they track deals on Macs and Mac related stuff.

  6. Informix Wingz on Prior Art to Squash Database Patent? · · Score: 1

    Informix had a product out about 1990 called Wingz. It was a Spreadsheet application but also had a procedural scpripting language called Hyperscript. It ran on Sun (OpenLook?, Motif?) Windows and Macintosh. Iinformix also had a product called Datalink that allowed querying against an Informix Database similiar to how ODBC now works. The three products combined were used by many comapnies as a client/server development system.

  7. Re:They forgot some for Connecticut. on Dumb Laws · · Score: 1

    The ban on the sale of Alcohol was enacted in the 70s in response to a series of late night robberies and murders. It is not a blue law. Since then the liquor store owners have opposed changing the law.

  8. Re:Power Grid Reliability on Y2K: Fuel the Panic, the NBC Movie · · Score: 1

    Generating plants trip offline all the time. That is why we have a power grid. If the plant near your house goes off, power can be sent from another plant generating excess capacity.