I was in Edwardsville, IL during the '06 tornado. I was in my ex-girlfriend's apartment at that time.

Never been to or heard of Felber's. I do love The Magic Kitchen though. I haven't been able to find any place quite like it, even here in NY.

1. Your grammatical errors make it appear like YOU'VE been drinking too much! Try not to hit the bottle so hard.
2. You are not legally required to blow into anything. It's called the 5th amendment; look it up.
3. I wouldn't demand a blood test either (see 5th amendment (look it up)). However, if forced to take one, I really have no choice at that point, but it would only help my case in court if I didn't give up my 5th amendment right (look it up).

Thank you.

I definitely did read it like that. I was like, "Wow, the Chinese are pulling a 180!" Then I read the summary and got a little confused.

Sweet, someone referenced my home town! And yes, the Simpsons are from there. P.S. Don't go to the neighborhood where the Simpsons live (Evergreen Terrace) if you want to live very long. P.P.S. It says they liev in Evergreen Terrace at the beginning of the show when they pan out of the their neighborhood, away from the sign.

Just so you stop making things up that are completely untrue, I want to inform you about an image like this: it is parody and not libel. Parodies are a well-established form of protected first amendment speech. If you think Michelle Obama really is a monkey because of something like this (which would be libel), you really are stupid. Fortunately, the courts are not.

The GP can also purchase the Nokia N900 (available tomorrow in flagship stores; available online for preorder today). It follows the European model you mention and is an awesome phone. I don't know if the Milestone has tethering, but the N900 does and doesn't tell your cell provider that you're tethering. The N900's 3G will only work on T-Mobile towers, unless you're living in an area where AT&T has some 2100 MHz towers. The N900's EDGE connection will work on both T-Mobile and AT&T though.

Only thing the N900 lacks, software-wise, is Android. In it's place it has Maemo, which looks amazing, but let's face it, we also want Android. I can't wait for someone to port it; maybe I'll look into trying it. The other thing I wish Nokia had done better with the hardware are the frequencies it can handle. I would absolutely love a phone I could setup to work on any of the US carriers with full bandwidth, but I'm willing to accept T-Mobile over AT&T any day right now.

I love Optimum Online Ultra. Cablevision is a company that "gets it." http://www.speedtest.net/result/612762349.png

Take it to your local recycling bin and just forget about this piece of garbage. Really, buy something better and more power efficient. I recommend a Sheevaplug if you want to keep price low, power consumption low, and get a lot better system in general.

What if I'm a trading individual? I'm not giving my details to anyone but the person I'm doing business with. Get over it.

That is fantastic news. I signed the petition and got a friend to do the same. I hope the FTC considers our input and bans DRM especially.

How about taking notes and having the computer later "textify" your hand-written outline via OCR? I would love that! Depending on the price, if it had a high-precision touchscreen, I'd ditch paper for most things and move to that! If the interfaces are designed correctly, it should be pretty functional for a bit more than just note-taking even. Think of all the media you could get on your system: education material, movies, songs, etc. That would just be fantastic! I'd use it as I go back to school part-time next semester.

By that logic, I could've just foregone a college degree in general and just relied on a HS diploma; after all, I could've been making cash at some low-level software job for 4 years! Except, in CS positions I've seen, a MS makes quite a bit of difference in the opportunities and pay presented to you.

Of course there's a limit to how much he can lose. He can't lose any more cash than he decided to short, multiplied by how much he leveraged. If he decides not to put in more money when his brokerage asks for more money, they will just sell his shares and collect the cash.

Something this basic requires a posting on the front of Slashdot? Great choice, kdawson!

I'll be sure to try and get my article about setting Openfire up on FreeBSD here soon..........