"As an FYI, the area has all kinds of omnivores. I can't see how a pilot could survive that either. There's no place to land a plane! Let's say he does the TV-movie thing and tried some kind of bail out. Bailing out, much less walking out without intimate knowledge of the area are both very low probability events in that region."
Don't forget that Fossett was an uber adventurer. He's climbed the highest mountains in the world, swum the English Channel, competed in the Ironman Triathlon, and competed in the Iditarod sled dog race.
If anyone could walk out of that area, it's Fossett.
The real cure for spam is to get granny to stop clicking on those "you've received an e-card" and Joe Sixpack from buying dick enlargement pills. Until this happens, the spammers will always find ways around anything security experts can think up.
"yeh, but most people aren't busy stockpiling vast quantities of dihydrogen-monoxide and hydrohydroxic acid!"
That's what you'd think, but you'd be wrong. My neighbor, along with many other people in my neighborhood, have tanks containing over 10,000 gallons of deadly dihydrogen monoxide in their back yards. If this isn't a terrorist plot, then I don't know what is...
"Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboroâ(TM)s code enforcement officer, said Mr. Deeb was doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws."
It's a good thing Ms. Wilderman wasn't around when Hewlett and Packard and Steve Wozniak were doing "research and development" in their garages or she would have undoubtedly shut them down too.
"I hate to say it, but the web has outlived it's usefulness anyway. Any idiot can create a website, Any idiot can post anonymously and any idiot can freely distribute kiddie porn as a result. Let's face it, the web is an outdated system that is primarily abused. Anything accomplished on the web can be done elsewhere faster, cheaper and better. Sure, the pedo crowd can still find ways to trade, but the web makes it too easy to hook up. Killing the web won't kill kiddie porn, but it makes it more difficult. Does anyone really give a crap if the web disappears? Seriously?"
Just replace "usenet", "the web", with just about any networking technology and your statement still has the same meaning. Where does it end?
I worked for a company where it was policy that if any person in the IT department gave notice, a security officer watched them clean out their desk and escorted them from the building. They were still paid for the period of time they gave notice, but the company did not want to risk having them around.
Cool! In that case, I'd give them one year's notice and take a long vacation.
Benjamin Franklin didn't hang around Muslim extremists. He didn't have his country hijacked by a regime that would kill his wife for showing too much ankle.
No, he lived in a country that was barely beyond burning women for suspected witchcraft.
My son has ADD and he has absolutely no interest in watching TV. He'd much rather read a book or write programs on his computer. In fact, if the TV is on and he's around, he'll just ignore it.
British computer magazines generally have much better editorial content than their American equivalents and don't seem to pull punches when it comes to reviews.
Borders and Barnes and Noble carry most of the popular ones.
Yes I am. Spread the cost over all the servers in the world and the cost would still be far less than the cost of all the crashes, infections, and data corruptions that are due to the sloppy way Microsoft writes and tests operating systems.
Cue up the future story of the woman who was assaulted in the parking lot while trying to unlock her BlackBerry to call 911...
How is having a phone, unlocked or otherwise, going to prevent an assault? Do police respond instantly in your neighborhood? They don't in mine. Five to ten minutes is about average.
The woman in the parking lot would be better served by pulling out her.38 revolver than her cell phone.
How much money would be saved on social programs if governments gave tax breaks to people that took the disabled, homeless, etc into the free space in their homes rent free, etc?
I think you've seen Down and Out in Beverly Hills a few times too many.
I wonder how the airlines are going to keep inappropriate video (i.e. porn or even just movies like "Snakes on a Plane" or "Alive") from appearing on the seat-back displays."
Why would movies like Snakes on a Plane be inappropriate for viewing on an airplane? Porn I can understand, but mass-market movies?
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This is my PowerMac G4. I never shut it down, just put it to sleep. Longest I've ever been able to keep a Windows laptop up was a week.
These problems are more likely due to shoddy outsourced maintenance than passengers using portable electronic devices.
"As an FYI, the area has all kinds of omnivores. I can't see how a pilot could survive that either. There's no place to land a plane! Let's say he does the TV-movie thing and tried some kind of bail out. Bailing out, much less walking out without intimate knowledge of the area are both very low probability events in that region."
Don't forget that Fossett was an uber adventurer. He's climbed the highest mountains in the world, swum the English Channel, competed in the Ironman Triathlon, and competed in the Iditarod sled dog race.
If anyone could walk out of that area, it's Fossett.
The real cure for spam is to get granny to stop clicking on those "you've received an e-card" and Joe Sixpack from buying dick enlargement pills. Until this happens, the spammers will always find ways around anything security experts can think up.
I'm not holding my breath...
Damn German cops have no sense of humor...
"yeh, but most people aren't busy stockpiling vast quantities of dihydrogen-monoxide and hydrohydroxic acid!"
That's what you'd think, but you'd be wrong. My neighbor, along with many other people in my neighborhood, have tanks containing over 10,000 gallons of deadly dihydrogen monoxide in their back yards. If this isn't a terrorist plot, then I don't know what is...
"Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboroâ(TM)s code enforcement officer, said Mr. Deeb was doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws."
It's a good thing Ms. Wilderman wasn't around when Hewlett and Packard and Steve Wozniak were doing "research and development" in their garages or she would have undoubtedly shut them down too.
Looks like yet another case of the Chinese trying to put lipstick on a pig.
"I hate to say it, but the web has outlived it's usefulness anyway. Any idiot can create a website, Any idiot can post anonymously and any idiot can freely distribute kiddie porn as a result. Let's face it, the web is an outdated system that is primarily abused. Anything accomplished on the web can be done elsewhere faster, cheaper and better. Sure, the pedo crowd can still find ways to trade, but the web makes it too easy to hook up. Killing the web won't kill kiddie porn, but it makes it more difficult. Does anyone really give a crap if the web disappears? Seriously?"
Just replace "usenet", "the web", with just about any networking technology and your statement still has the same meaning. Where does it end?
That's because China actually kills people they sentence to death. They don't let them rot in prison for 20 years before carrying out the sentence.
We didn't. This guy did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_Ussher
Cool! In that case, I'd give them one year's notice and take a long vacation.
No, he lived in a country that was barely beyond burning women for suspected witchcraft.
My son has ADD and he has absolutely no interest in watching TV. He'd much rather read a book or write programs on his computer. In fact, if the TV is on and he's around, he'll just ignore it.
Punch cards? Hell, when I started working with computers, we keyed programs into memory using toggle switches.
British computer magazines generally have much better editorial content than their American equivalents and don't seem to pull punches when it comes to reviews.
Borders and Barnes and Noble carry most of the popular ones.
Yes I am. Spread the cost over all the servers in the world and the cost would still be far less than the cost of all the crashes, infections, and data corruptions that are due to the sloppy way Microsoft writes and tests operating systems.
I for one welcome the coming ice age along with the excellent skiing it will bring.
But what if the "suicide gene" fails? Does that mean we might have skin jobs walking the streets in the future?
In England, the marked price already includes VAT and is sensible, like #1.50 or #2.00, not something like $1.99 or $1.49 like you see in the U.S.
Gas prices in the U.S. are even more ridiculous--they always end in $0.009.
How is having a phone, unlocked or otherwise, going to prevent an assault? Do police respond instantly in your neighborhood? They don't in mine. Five to ten minutes is about average.
The woman in the parking lot would be better served by pulling out her .38 revolver than her cell phone.
I think you've seen Down and Out in Beverly Hills a few times too many.
Money talks and bullshit walks. Always has, always will.
Why would movies like Snakes on a Plane be inappropriate for viewing on an airplane? Porn I can understand, but mass-market movies?
I can just see it now... The Jews build a space station immediately followed by the Palestinians sending up a suicide bomber to take it out.