I know that Lotus Notes causes this issue on my work computer. (Yes, yes, I know it's a horrible thing to run but I've no choice in the matter). Killing the Notes process always made it all work again. I'm not sure *what* it's doing, but I know that it's Lotus that's doing it. It's annoying as all get out, too.

What make and model of BluRay player do you have? I'd love to have one that was like that. The one I've got now takes a good 2-3 minutes before it'll play a BluRay... and heaven forbid if I turn it on before I turn my TV on... it won't handshake after the fact for some reason.

My brand new GMC Sierra pickup has manual windows, manual door locks and no cruise control. If you look around, you can find things without easily enough.

Bullocks. Truckers pay tax on diesel the same as anyone else buying diesel. The 'tax exempt only' prices are for off-road diesel (farm tractors, generators, refrigeration units and so-on). Trucking fuel tax is a bit more complicated though, as one must pay fuel tax to the states they operate in, not just in the state they purchased the fuel. Look up IFTA for more information.

Lucky bastard. It's $0.17/kWh up here in Vermont.

I think it might actually be at AT&T's request. I've got the Audible app on my Verizon Droid and it happily downloads larger than 20 MB files on 3G. It's a feature I use with some regularity given how much I travel in areas away from wifi.

Yeah, but honestly, the alarm gate doesn't stop those people either. They zip right out. I wonder what the value is of one of those things that they're nabbed so often...

The scanners seem to be just set up to show something at random that's on sale. It'd be nice if it was related to where I was, but it'd be even nicer if it'd just shut up and leave me alone hehe.

Well, you should want to! They're interesting... all sciency and stuff.

~ Pop

There is a chain of stores in the US, Stop & Shop, that is doing what you describe for self-checkout now. It's much much more convenient than the regular self checkouts here. I wish more stores would take that up, though from what I'm told, there's a lot of people stealing the hand scanners... ...and annoyingly, the hand scanners every so often make a "ka-ching" noise and show some special on the screen they're having. It's loud and unwelcome. It's still better than the regular system, though.

Well, you know what this means...

My attempt at humor failed. Curses, foiled again!

Admittedly, it wasn't very funny to begin with...

It's not paranoia if they really /are/ out to broadcast coded messages at you. 73, K1PUP

Ah ha! So Jerry Lewis has autism! LaDEEEEEE

To that end, have you found a decent VNC client application for it?

Oddly, in my case, that's not an option. While Comcast has a drop to my home, the local telco, Fairpoint, does not, and when called, has no desire to dig up my yard to run a line (not that my landlord would let me tell them to do that anyway).

As such, I can get Comcast. No southern exposure for satellite either.