Insurance don't make a killing selling insurance polices that they know they're likely to pay out on. A more accurate measure would be whether costal flood insurance costs have been rising faster than other insurance premiums (Earthquake insurance might be a good reference point).

That at least would be proof that Insurance companies are including AGW models into their actuarial tables.

I keep forgetting that Slashdot is not Reddit.. Forgot we're mostly autistic folks who can't recognize jokes.

See! Doubly useless!

Oh sure, that's fine as long as the plane has electricity, but what happens when it crashes on a desert island, and they only have 16 hours of battery life to repair the plane before the manuals become a really expensive paperweight.

Ubuntu has their LTS releases, which aim for the same thing. No "new feature" releases, just stability and security upgrades.

The SPIES wiretap archive, now owned by Area.com, and moved to HTTP from Gopher but the content is still there. First place I learned about Phreaking and Rainbow Boxes, as well as Core Wars, a ton of great old practical jokes.

http://wiretap.area.com/

Troll? or did you miss the HTC Arrive that came out in February?

Admittedly, it's not much compared with the stable of Android phones that they're carrying, but it's not nothing.

Sprint allows this and their coverage and plans have been getting better and better for the last four years.

Right now sprint is doing everything they can to be the "Consumer Friendly" option, with unlimited text and data forthwith same price as Verizon and AT&T's more limited options.

Not a Sprint shill or anything. Just a satisfied customer.

src:kit requires Chrome, and installs a custom chrome extension when you install it from the web store. I'm not saying it couldn't be done without pure html/javascript, but the actual implementation does include an "install". This is probably to get around javascript sandbox issues with accessing dropbox.

3G Xoom + keyboard + keyboard case = $1000

3G iPad + keyboard + keyboard case = $1000

3G Chromebook = $500, or $20/month if you're a student.

That's the math that they're counting on people doing.

And they could be shipped off to Gitmo for torture^H^H^H^H^H^H detainment in preparation for a military tribunal.

What it might do is cut off recruitment. There's a spectrum of Anonymous folks, from the script kiddies who downloaded LOIC, and have it running on their parent's computer, all the way up to the serious folks who actually designed and architected the attacks. The serious folks know how to protect their anonymity well, and it's unlikely that any significant portion of them will be caught and tried. The script kiddies are pretty vulnerable though, and are going to get picked off by prosecution.

Thing is, there's an evolution, from LOIC downloader, to someone who understands the security concepts better, to those who are able to plan and mount real attacks. If you cut the script kiddie population down drastically, and make it hard to recruit people into Anonymous, then it's going to diminish the population of higher-up members.

The strategy ends up being just like a real war: attack and pick off off the soldiers, until the generals are exposed, then go after the generals.

I prefer my webservers to run purely on ASICs. Sure, updating the web site is a little costly, but I can handle more traffic than Amazon.

Adobe showed off a demo of this at MAX 2009, so I suspect that they're going to be pushing for it at some point in the near future. AS is annoying though, when you have to switch between AS and C# or Java, and muscle memory throws your type declarations into the wrong syntax.

Err... <%@ Language=Javascript%>