At least with Blackberry devices, I can configure my users devices to wipe when:

Contact with the server has been lost for n hours
Battery level drops to 5%
Battery has been removed
Unlock password has be tried n times

along with several other options, there is a reason that these devices have been issued to Government agencies for years :) they can be locked down, and fully encrypted.

So simply removing the device from the network is not good enough.

As for my users, the devices have minatory passwords and locking options, and the device will happily self-wipe after 10 incorrect password guesses.

Its always a little sad to me that in this day and age, a neat idea can't happen not because of a technical reason, but because of a licensing / legal problem.

Not sure which distro's this is turned on by default on, but you'll have to echo a 1 to /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq before you can try this out :)

alt + sysrq + o is 'Off' for most laptops
+h should give you help options as well.

The problem is with blowing snow it might only cover one side of the 4 traffic paths ...

For example: a 'traditional' 4 way intersection ...
three sides 'normal' one side 'covered'

In this case the normal side is Green and the covered side is 'Red'

If the covered side treats it as a 4 way stop, the oncoming 'Green' lane will not stop (they have no way of telling that the other side is covered) so there exists a possibility of someone pulling out into the street on a Red light, and getting hit...

I know my Gateway 2000 (back when they didn't produce crap!) 386DX/25 had a nice Red Button on the front to drop the speed down.

The real 'cool factor' starts to kick in when this stuff is fully automated, the demos that I've seen you can take a rack of dev/test servers and drop the power they are using off hours, then give the power back (cpu clock rate, etc) during the day. We already have something simmilar in our company datacenters: the HP systems (running ESX) we have now ballance (via vMotion) running systems at night, and power down some of the hosts (about half of them on a normal night, it bases it on current load) saving money and power ... no impact to the end user. Its a win-win as far as I'm concerned.

If you have access to the file at the remote end I would run it though QuickPar http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ at that point you can split the file into a group of smaller files (less chance of any one file being mangled), plus add ckecksum files to the set, that way if one of the files is mangled in transport it's 1: identifiable and 2. automatically fixed by reassembling the par files on your end of the connection.

I thought that the actual 'Achievement' article was the one requiring a post in order to unlock. (gotta love the the fact there is no master list of achievements yet :) )

It would be more fun to require a +5 mod on said April 1st post for it to count ...

I would think 'no' since there is a Single Digit UID, 2 Digit, etc ... its impossible to get into all the groups

*sigh* no 'Low 6 Digit achievement' :P

I just hope you don't have to use Lotus Notes as your email client. ESC = Close Window (I also have a dislike for Notes for a LARGE host of reasons as well :) )

in iTunes: right click the song, select properties, tada! "Account Name: "

(its in the same place as the DRM'd copies)

I find it a little odd that so many people simply expected to get files with no account information, since all that was promised was FairPlay being removed. I'm still a little peeved about having to pay 0.30$ a tune to unlock my current library however.