The supposition is cynical, and intended to be a jab.

Licensed motorcyclists in states such as North Carolina and New York are registered as organ donors as part of the licensing. I'm expecting this is also practice in other states, as well. You're welcome to Google it.

Nevada must be looking to get a foot in the door on the organ/tissue donation market. What they're not telling you is that when you get loaded into the DB, you're also flagged as a donor - much the same way licensed motorcyclists are.

Moral of the story? If you need an organ, move to Nevada.

I was out to lunch when this occured. It sounded like a giant dump truck slamming it's trailer. Glad to hear everyone is okay.

More Lat/Long stuff: 74.14W 35.74N is right off the coast of North Carolina & Southern Virginia. 74.14W 35.74S is right off the coast of Chile. 74.14E 35.74S is in the middle of nowhere, with Madagascar.

According to the expiry date on my HSBC card, one of the mailed cards could very likely have been mine.

I will be cancelling my HSBC account as soon as I can find an effective replacement bank. We have an ESL Credit Union nearby; looking for any other alternatives if anyone has any suggestions.

Nativity is overrated. UNFS does a fine job.

You made no mention of a budget. I'd go with a Drobo - probably the DroboFS. http://www.drobo.com/products/drobo-fs.php

Completely undocumented... <CARUSO NAME="david" STYLE="csi/miami" SHADES="true"> ...until now. </CARUSO>

YEAAAAAAAAAH!

Unfortunately, BitPim would not have been an option for this situation, as the T-Mobile Sidekick does not store any data locally - simply plus down an image from the giant server in the sky on a reboot.

And that's the 'server' that's gone, now.

This is an epic fail; many bards will send their sons to school on the song that will be sung from this gross misadventure.

You don't know - and neither does the computer.

Decryption is a mathematical operation. You are given a blob of yunk. You can be fairly certain it is encrypted with a given cipher because it meets certain characteristics - either length, or hash-depth, or there is a header or footer of a given length, or some revealing information about the cipher may have been sent prior to or alongside the encrypted blob.

Then, if you're smart enough, or you have enough money, or time, or computing power, or a lot of luck, the decryption operation might occur. You can check as to whether or not you've successfully decrypted the data mathematically - e.g. does the result set fit with the function I've just run and give me the source data I started with? If so, yes, you've decrypted the data.

It's your responsibility as a researcher to decide what to do with whatever came out the other side. You may have to decrypt it again before proceeding. You may find out that what you just decrypted was nothing more sinister than ICMP_FRAGMENTATION_REQUIRED (Frak!).

The holy grail of cryptography may infact be steganographical encryption - or binary / machine language that reads as Grandmother's Cookie Recipe, but when run as an executable it actually glasses the machine. Who knows?

Unless Jobsy himself has told you this, I'm pretty sure that running this article either violates HIPPA, or is simply full of lies...

Where did the information about a transplant come from? I hope the source was verified, and re-verified, and then re-verified again. Remember when CNN posted that Jobs had had a heart attack, but it simply turned out to be "citizen journalism" gone horribly, horribly wrong? Gotta be careful with this crap.

Either way, all the best to The Steve.

Counter-nits:

US Airways Flight 1549 is recorded as an Airbus A320-214. The crusing speed of an A320 is Mach 0.78. Mach 0.78 is 593.7415 miles per hour, which is closer to 600 than 500, I believe. In holding with being a complete bastard, 91% of Mach 1 is 692.698416 miles per hour, fully 98.95 miles per hour more than your claim. (The speed of sound being 761.207051 miles per hour, for reference.)

You are correct about the rate-of-climb at the time of incident, though - it was grossly less than the cruse speed.

Also, nits - not nicks - are often picked, unless you're creating a new account.

Agreed to the point of the destruction of the recovered disk. If the disk was still any good, it probably wouldn't have needed SpinRite in the first place. Trash it - GBs are cheap these days.

Psh. Your puny mesh screen isn't going to stop the bird; it just means his death-by-CF6 sentence is commuted, only instead to being put through a fine mesh screen.