(And I'm working on making the usb modem use cases work more smoothly...)

Ran Debian with NM and KDE for the last couple of years as well. Purged it recently in order to remove systemd (NM depends on PolKit which depends on pam-systemd for login session management), and replaced it with WICD.

WiCD is not quite as smooth as NM for usb modems, but for wifi and wired ethernet, it does the job.

The real question is if any police officer will arrest the chimp for breaking laws. If orangutangs are people, then they need to play by the same rules as us.

Being treated as a subhuman would be deplorable if that was happening to a human. You're actually begging the question (a first on slashdot). You start with the assumption that an Orangutan is human and then suggest that treating it as less than a human is deplorable.
On the subject of being held against her will. How was it ascertained that the Orangutan did not wish to be in the zoo and preferred to be in the wild, or do we just assume that it would rather be in the wild? Assuming an Orangutan would choose the wild, then where DO we draw the line? Does a bird know or care whether it is in captivity or in the wild? How about a lizard? An ant?

There is about the same chance of a gun getting discovered by the TSA at checkpoint as there is of getting your gun discovered in luggage. However, the chances of them confiscating it if discovered at the checkpoint is 100%, while the chance of TSA stealing it out of your luggage is probably only about 1/4 or an 1/8th of that. Statistics say that you should check your gun, because 80% or so of the time, it will not get stolen.
Unfortunately, in this day and age, you really should carry on anything worth more to you than a pair of jeans. Since you can no longer lock your luggage, and the TSA agents have stolen billions of dollars of items out of luggage, you are a fool to check anything valuable.

So let me get this straight: Sony advertises that you can install Linux on the PS3, users buy the PS3 and install Linux on it, Sony removes the said advertised feature, and it's the user's fault because other machines are better at running Linux?! Great logic you have there.

Don't forget that many people installed the update which removed Other OS by accident, or they wouldn't dream that installing an update would purposely remove an advertised feature. I am flabbergasted that you so quickly take Sony's side in this issue.

Anyone who refers to Star Trek by a three letter acronym is just plain not the target audience.

(Unless, perhaps, it's TRO, for "The Real One")

Star Trek and its spinoffs have a minimal amount in common.

hawk

Humans can tell when bad weather is coming. We can sense low pressure and it makes us uneasy. One difference between humans and birds is that birds can fly away but can't hunker down in a shelter and ride it out. Other than birds that build in cliffsides, bird's nests are generally pretty exposed. Humans can't fly, but can hunker down in a shelter and ride it out.

Low level harmonics are below what birds can hear too, but they can feel them, and so can we. Of course, Tornadoes that are going to form two days in the future don't produce this deep rumble. They may have sensed the pressure dropping, which humans can also sense, and then they flew away from where they were in hopes of finding higher pressure somewhere else.

I'm not sure about T-mobile, but Verizon has various flags which cause this to get turned back on, such as getting a new phone, signing a new contract, changing your rate plan, etc.

I went through this several times with Verizon. I disabled all billing through my account, but apparently every time you get a new phone, change your rate plan, or a mouse farts, the option gets switched back on.
In many cases, such as my stepson's, they are aiming these services at kids, because they know they have trained well this generation of kids to not read the fine print. By texting "funny" to some number they can get a corny joke sent to their phone once a day and they don't even realize that it is costing $10 a week because they didn't read the fine print. Nevermind that kids are not able to enter legal contracts and are under no obligation to pay.
Basically, if the phones are offering these billing services, they need to be regulated under the same rules as a credit card, in addition to the regulations of the phone services. Basically, they are currently acting as a credit card without having to follow the same regulations. Since they are not acting as a mere facilitator, as a credit card company would, they feel no obligation to side with the consumer on a complaint. If a CC company sides with a consumer and reverses the charge, they make MORE money. If the phone company reverses the charge, they lose not just their 20-40% cut of the scam, but the entire amount, unless they have agreements with the scam companies that allow reversing the charges to them.

There's a good paper on how a lot more DNA is used than we think, in the next issue of Cell.

I worked at Tek Cominco, idiot.

I know way more about it than you do.

So, at most, this would help ameliorate 10 percent total of the increase in temps just this decade, which would still result in 25 to 50 percent crop failures?

Great. But stop using fossil fuels. We have cheaper technology already.