Except until this very last hardware refresh, you were buying a DUAL CORE i7 in the Macbook Pro when one could easily get a QUAD CORE i7 in other manufacturer's laptops. Also, the graphics card that tends to get put in to Macs are typically mid range at best. So..no, the feature set isn't about the same amount of money.

I, unfortunately, still have to admin AIX 4 and 5 servers. No RIP for SMIT in my life.. :/

Depending on the language, you may be required to do this. I know I need to do this when doing Windows + C++/Qt development.

That's why I recently switched from Pandora to Last.Fm, personally.

Not really. You see, I was going by the summary of the article which implies that Volez was in a wreck with Bea. It also says that Bea was updating to Facebook the same time that Volez called 911. It's not that far of a stretch to assume there was ONE accident, not two (without reading the full article).

I assume the phone call was made AFTER the wreck. If she updated at the same time as the 911 call, wouldn't the update also be AFTER the wreck?

This is, of course, assuming that the person making the call isn't psychic and made the call before the wreck.

I, for one, welcome our new IBM ant overlords...well, as long as they don't make me use/admin Lotus Notes again.

"Sorry, Sony. The hard drive is encrypted with a 35 character password and 3DES/AES.. Darn it! I knew I should have used a shorter password..because you see, I forgot it! So sorry about that."

Why ship dd-wrt when openwrt is updated more and actually works with IPv6? And not to support Linksys, but there are still very few good offerings for home router appliances with IPv6 support. Lastly, the summary isn't exactly correct. We are NOT at IPv4 exhaustion yet. When the RIRs allocate the last of their reserves, THEN we will be at IPv4 exhaustion.

It figures she wouldn't divorce him after all that.

Also, here's another from the guy's Youtube channel..

One can also watch the text-only version by telneting in to 94.255.168.108 (This was gleaned from the blog owner's twitter account).

That was quick slashdotting..any alternate links?

If I would have known about the party, I would have been there too.

Except all of that can be erased pretty easily. One could rewrite the firmware on the CPU (Yes, people do that..). One could alter the DMI information to get rid of memory manufacturer dates and serial numbers. MAC addresses can't be used as a unique identifying device either. NIC manufacturers produce more than one card with any given MAC address. There simple isn't enough addresses to go around. There was a recent, very informative thread on NANOG about this very thing.

Even if the serial numbers were even remotely useful in tracking the computer's origins, it would track only that : It's origins. Computer hardware changes hands way too often with no form of tracking between private parties. How many people here on Slashdot have rescued a "dead" computer from an employer's trash bin and brought it back to life? How many retail stores do you know of that track every item sold down to its individual serial number? Maybe Best Buy does this, but 90% of your "Mom and Pop" computer stores aren't going to do this.

TL;DR version : Serial numbers on a computer are useless for tracking.