In addition to the other points above, there are nearly always at least two, and in larger planes often more people, in the cockpit certified to fly the plane. On a 6 hour transcontinental flight, I'd like to think that they're switching off on the "watching blinky lights and widgets" duty. I know how well I can pay attention to blinky lights and widgets for 6 straight hours, and lemme tell ya... it's not all that well. I've been known to zone out watching a three minute install progress bar.

I gave two examples including links of people who were detained for a period of time (from days to months) who had driver's licenses but not a birth certificates. One even had a birth certificate but it was still ignored by immigration. It's in the sibling thread. I won't duplicate myself.

The fact here is you are the naive fool assuming local police operate strictly according to the letter of the law with no racial bias. You also assume immigration, which is a federal agency, will mirror arizona state law. Hint: it does not and will not.

Wow, 8 days without spam bots? Could it be time for the resurrection?

Oddly, floppies are great for debug and making code changes during the boot process. There are times when you do not have access to the disk or console (yet) and still need to know what is happening. Redirecting standard error to a file on a floppy has saved my bacon more times that I can count. It is also good if I need to "inject" new code into a system that is barely booted up. (no network, no disk access) Burning a CD/DVD for a 12K shell script seems a waste to me. I know I am probably a special case though. I don't buy millions of them, but when I buy new test systems, they must have a floppy drive.

We've seen a few ISPs that MitM www.google.com in DNS (you can check for yourself in Netalyzr.

Does anyone know (save me looking at a TCPdump) what domain name firefox uses, is it www.google.com or something else, for the google searches?

So if you have an iPad and you currently sync it with a PC, you need to buy a Mac mini and a subscription to a service that costs $99 per year (iPhone developer program) in order to turn your iPad into a computer. Otherwise, the iPad is called an "appliance". Your microwave oven has a microprocessor, but do you ordinarily think of it as a "computer"?

And which one is our president a product of?

Because not all applications on which a business depends are available for Mac OS X. That's why Orange Micro used to sell single-board PCs that fit in one of a Mac's slots. This was faster than the emulation that was otherwise required before Apple switched to x86 CPUs.

Nexus one is almost exactly the same phone as the Desire, HTC made the Nexus for Google. The desire has just added firm keys instead of the Nexus touchscreen keys at the bottom and changed the crazy ball for a crazy optical eye - oh and slung the HTC Sence interface on top of it, which really is the USP. Same screen, same processor, same battery, same phone.

is that an exclusive or? googled prison crowding for you

there may or may not be 'super science'. we cant live on this presumption. what we know today fits pretty close to our observations though not perfectly.

We may NEVER have a clear understanding of how everything works because there may be some aspect that we dont have the IQ, and possibly never will, to understand.

"we cannot rule out entirely the possibility of unimaginable space and time travel mechanisms."

we can within our science. until our science allows for such things we can consider them as a society, impossible. scientist should of course try to push the limits of our knowledge but any other assumptions are just fantasy.

Someday we could find that dark matter and dark energy are truly real and not a side effect of something else and that in fact they are usable for space travel or communications or power etc etc. What a great day that *could* be.

Someday we might find that string theory is just a side effect of something even more fundamental and that all of our observations of the universe have been a simple perspective on the truth.

but today, ~186kmps is the speed limit, going fast takes more energy that we can produce, and intelligent life is likely to be just as isolated as we are. Though they (smart aliens) are very likely to exist statistically, we don't know.

Also, we continue to become MORE reliant on radio waves and less so on physical wiring. Fiber optics become a backbone but wireless communication is key to advancement. There may be a shift in the data being sent from analog tv to digital data communications, but we are still sending the signals out and will likely send more and more for the foreseeable future.

> Geeks care about feature counts.

Geeks know what they want and are aware of what the tech can do and aren't interested in excuses or substitutes.

"Consumers" have no clue what they want or what their needs are or what their options are.

They will gladly accept the shovelware Big Mac or Chevy even if the TCO is higher in the end.

Apple fanboys just don't like the "Geeks" pointing out things that may make the fanboys appear foolish. They didn't merely buy the overhyped gadget based on their own personal requirements and acceptable tradeoffs. They bought into because a lot of BS and flimflam. Make it look like the flimflam is bogus and the Apple fanboys get their panties in a bunch because they start feeling stupid.

It's MS-DOS all over again.

You bought a turd in a pretty box and don't want to be force fed the red pill.

Then how are all these apps being written for it?

FTFY.

Regardless, you can't move the entire responsibility away from the person who made the comment onto the person who did the deed if the two are inextricably linked. Just because the people who vandalised the house arguably committed a worst crime, doesn't negate the potential that whoever spurred them on committed a crime - the question to ask is, would they have committed the crime if the lie had never been spread?