The Feds love *NiX "The architecture has been subsequently mainstreamed into Linux and ported to several other systems, including the Solaris operating system, the FreeBSD® operating system, and the Darwin kernel, spawning a wide range of related work" http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/index.shtml

I suppose Microsoft's security isn't all that bad, if they have to go after all the legacy stuff. Oh shit! the fax is down and so is the BBS....WHAT! our payphone and pagers are down too! I'm not getting tone on my 14.4 shotgun modem!!! We're going to sink! Hold on let me boot up the workstations! Load "*" 8,1

and since all of our coprorations love China, and everything that we use is made in China....

So ISDN is pure digital and ADSL is analog converted into digital at the DSLAM, so I should go with ISDN right......

I wouldn't doubt people are reporting allot of UFOs seeing that Air Force Space Command, Norad, CIA(new), and Lockhead Space Systems are all out of that area. There might be some neat things test flying here and there under the cover of night. Not aliens but perhaps some cool looking Lockhead "stuff".

If the industry spent half the money they spend on harrassing its customers on content they wouldn't have an issue. I do not see how threatening customers, throwing them in jail, sueing them and putting them under survilence is going to make them money or win them any fans. This hits close to home because my friend and I saw Watchman out of town and the theatre was really ghetto so he filmed the movie theatre and made some comments before the movie or even the previews started then put away his camera and before we knew it we were being escorted by police officers out of the theatre and threatened with Felony charges WTF....

On a serious note America doesn't have any violence issue compared to the rest of the world. Most of the places with the worst violence don't have much of a TV/video game playing population. Serbia, Africa, the Middle East yep all video games fault.

Perhaps Hilary will bring this up while she is out there. I can't even think of way to outline all the issues I have with China without it sounding like a declaration of war.

I can just see the system engineer reading Slashdot threads, look up oh and see the thread...shit my server is down....

Don't forget vendors and web portals that cancel their support if your not using some anceint browser...arggh now back to reading my Here you have emails...

oh no we are all using Compuserv mail, pine and Lotus Notes on OS2 Warp Machines

if it happens once shame on you, if it happens twice...drrrrrr.......errrr

If accidently hit the Mayday button, I think I would sink the boat just to get out of the $100,000 Euros

Alcohol was the original fuel used in Ford Motor cars. Standard Oil put allot of money into helping Prohibition happen which also banned ethanol go figure...

Bicycle here too and I just moved from SF to Arkansas :-/ my coworker asked if I rode my bicycle on the street today and then told me I should really ride on the sidewalk.....My commute is about 2 miles so I avg around 22mph(don't want to show up all sweaty)...I used to race Cat2 this sidewalk thing would be intresting.