Check it out, a company has a marketing campaign, and you heard it first here on Slashdot! Oh, wait, no you heard it first on Techgeist, but they got it from a forum somewhere so... where was I going with this? Oh, yeah, did I mention Microsoft was evil? It said so in a blog I read once, when I wasn't reading actual important news stories that have content and meaning.

Hey, if you are mapping, why not grab all the data up front you might need later? Think about it. The cars use LIDAR too.

Yeah, welcome to the world of grants. The dates never make any sense. They setup grants here in our sponsored programs department that were sometimes awarded a year or more ago.

No, what they suddenly realized is that they want to make someone else pay for the massive cost to implement the plan. "Create a database of all communication transactions" sounds great on a todo list but starts to fall apart when you get to the details.

I had a webpage that would accept a password, and unencrypt the filenames so they were viewable in readable form on the page. Each one was a hyperlink. There was an extra step required if you wanted the downloaded filename to be unencrypted as well.

If you had a web page on the host that would decrypt the file names (or files), they could have just stored a copy after your code generated it. Not only that, but they could have trivially captured any password you put into it. That's not a secure system at all if you assume a malicious host like the OP assumes.

Constituents?! No, too many lobbyist and politicians were getting tickets, because the cameras don't accept the "do you know who I am?!" excuse...

The only thing useful is now people know it can be done.

Or at least we know he can mock up some convincing looking "screen captures". :)

What is the role DLS today in the broadband world? Is it merely a bandaid for places with no other options, or something more that I am missing?

Around here, cable internet is absolute crap due to all the students sucking the bandwidth dry. I don't care what they claim to provide speed wise, it was always slow. The connection would also just disappear for over an hour at a time most nights around 10PM. DSL doesn't provide the theoretical rates of cable, but what it does provide is a fixed rate and the phone company, as much as they suck, sucks a lot less than the cable company when it comes to reliability.

That's no longer an issue in MS Office 2007, and the collaboration features work between MS Office 2007 and Open Office.

I believe the relative velocity was 2,300mph, not that it would matter much either way if it hit.

Star Trek 5 had a good trailer. Unfortunately, that minute and whatever was the only good footage they had managed to shoot.