This is my favorite comment on slashdot in a long time... well done, sir... well done.

The difference is that companies (especially large ones) have teams of lawyers to shoot down those charges, or at least stall them long enough to make it not worth the time, while an individual does not. Same thing applies to the rich.

My guess is that it would perfectly legal to modify, but no state would register the vehicle for use on public roads (which kind of defeats the purpose unless you have your own city). Just like how I can remove the taillights. Sure, it's legal to remove them, but not to drive on public roads without it.

Combined with the fact that insurance companies would likely put you at 100% fault without the data, and you're pretty much screwed.

HP ZR24w - 1920x1200 IPS panel, roughly $400 on Amazon (when they're in stock). I use one at work and it's a nice monitor.

The rule you're describing is simple, pay things in the following order of priority:
Loans and payments that can't be discharged in bankruptcy (student loans, child support, etc.)
Secured debt (house, auto)
Unsecured debt (credit card, medical, etc)

And as someone who just had to do it: my wife had a medical emergency that required surgery, and we owed a few grand that I didn't have at the time. I called them up, they asked 'can you afford $150/month? Yes, OK, that will be your payment at 0% until paid'. Medical places would much rather get paid slowly than not get paid at all.

There is NO way I'm going to click any link in this thread at work...

Like this: https://www.citibank.com/us/cards/vanpromo/cmc_pop/index2.htm
or http://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/index.cfm?template=learn_about_shopsafe
etc...

It's the ultimate dupe, and we just keep eating it up.

AT&T also plans on using it's 700MHz range for LTE, at least according to a reference on Engadget.

Like AT&T does now with cable service?

Don't kid yourself, no one here needs a ring.

Because the graphic designers all use macs?

This seems to make the most sense to me. I forgot that 'Shut down' is CIO talk for 'crash horribly'. Yeah, sounds like general poor planning/developers/architects.

"We believe that increased load in supernode traffic led to some of these parameters exceeding normal limits, and as a result, more supernodes started to shut down"

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are supernodes coded to shut down during increased load instead of simply throttling requests? It seems like the idea of 'too many requests, shut down' is what caused the cascade. Can someone enlighten me as to why this is the preferred overload handling mechanism?

This way the players play for almost nothing (yeah, there's scholarships, but it's hardly a burden on the school to offer 50 of these).