...yawns, recalls mental image of Debian on his PC at home and how it doesn't seem to want to EVER utilize hardware acceleration with his circa 2002 graphics card, thinks of upgrading his home PC from 2k to XP, returns to work on Vista

I looked up my state's statute and interestingly, it states refusal to identify one's self as suspicious and therefore adequate reason to detain. Wow, talk about a self-protecting clause. (b) Among the circumstances which may be considered in determining whether alarm is warranted is the fact that the person takes flight upon the appearance of a law enforcement officer, *******refuses to identify himself******, or manifestly endeavors to conceal himself or any object. Unless flight by the person or other circumstances make it impracticable, a law enforcement officer shall, prior to any arrest for an offense under this Code section, afford the person an opportunity to dispel any alarm or immediate concern which would otherwise be warranted by requesting the person to identify himself and explain his presence and conduct. No person shall be convicted of an offense under this Code section if the law enforcement officer failed to comply with the foregoing procedure or if it appears at trial that the explanation given by the person was true and would have dispelled the alarm or immediate concern.

Bingo! Give that man a cheeseburger... make it a quarter pounder. TIME THE FRIGGIN' SESSIONS. END OF ISSUE.

shutting down about half the services so my PIII can burn or convert a DVD without injecting glitches in the video everytime my DNS updater polls, or antivirus updates, or peerguardian blocks an IP... Run services shutdown script - convert and/or burn - reboot to get everything I shut down started again.

Surf on over to datalossdb.org and sub to the RSS feed. Something like this happens everyday, multiple times per day. The bad part is most of the time it's not hackers, it's employees that dump SSN's, DOB's, etc into the garbage or post them to the net. It's horrific. At least when hacker does it, it was done deliberately by someone with half a brain. Most of the time, it's clueless employees scattering our personal information about the grounds like it's fertilizer.

... and replaced it with the Super-Minimalistic Department of Super Redundancy and Checks and Balances See-Saw Redundancy Department.

It has as much to do with stock market analysis as any T/A method does. It is simply another perspective to include in one's T/A efforts. Any statistical theory is useful in T/A; its success depending on how it's used, just like any indicator. No offence, but I take it you're a 'fundy' trader. ;)

I totally agree. I get so sick of no-frills products designed for the guy that wants no frills being turned into the typical bells and whistles waste of money. Nothing can stay true to its nature for long - it always gets sucked into mediocrity. Of course netbook would say these steps keep it from suffering from mediocrity but in reality they're just trying to make it like everything else out there. Irony.

Roman Hussy?!?

Seems like this would be very easy to do. A text filter looking at the torrent names. I'm trying to figure out how this would -not- be effective... and if the host site didn't do this, why would the court not demand it? Seems like such an easy solution, until someone redesigns the actual torrent clients for encrypted filenames or something. I'm not worried about Mini specifically, but what if all sites were required to do this? Just hypothetically...

The use of oversimplified analogies based on childrens' toys by large companies to express common sense ideas disturbs me.

John Cocktoastin

"Now researchers at the Natural History Museum in London believe that the creatures' small brains could have developed to reduce the creatures' energy needs" So, if you're overweight due to excessive eating, you can just say you're got a big ol' brain to feed.

I'm not debating that they've always made money. I'm saying the reason they've made money does not exist for 'regular' news sites, at least among, um, 'self-efficient' people.