the big issue with EU countries is the federal death penalty is possible for treason and espionage. waive that and he could have a G-III all to himself, with just a few "friends" for a little chit-chat, for the ride to the US.

if it is up to Great Britain, Assange only leaves the embassy in a coffin. they're going to be standing there at the doors until the end of time. waiting. on alert. with cuffs. forever.

fact is, it's a pretty soft underbelly, this electronic commerce thing. it's the system that's rotten, and the top bananas are way green in this stuff. going to be a lot of meat robots canned before electronic payments make the cut.

ALU's "10 gig copper" technology is something like 10 meters length. that's way out on the tail of the straight line of speed vs distance that's been pretty much unchanged since the days of ADSL 7 meg. if you can't get out of the shadow of the field cabinet, what good is it?

show me 150 mbps at 7000 wire feet, and I will pester my engineers to buy a trainload of it. it's got to be pretty clever to beat what appear to be the laws of physics.

or maybe use those sites to DOS themselves

I am really surprised that Britain continued to use graphite moderators in their power reactors. the Wigner effect of neutron poisoning in the moderator was very well known going into the 50s, making those reactors somewhat unpredictable. after Windscale, they should have known better.

specifically, use reverse osmosis and other separation methods to get all the pollution out of the huge lake... and drop it in the living rooms of the board of directors of the company that caused the spill.

they've tried everything else, why not that?

buncha guys found out dead zone. who's gonna tell da Boss? we could both be sleepin wit da fishes...

that got funded as research. well played!

and the Godheads sling opcodes. THIS is memory management, making all of your 1K count.

Tek has had period-great products for half a century and more, and many are still usable from that period. I have a used dual-trace with digital that is probably 20 years old, and works great on a ham testbench.

so whether the rumors floating around that portions of the line are rebadged Anritsu scopes are true or not, there should be enough intelligence at the company(-ies) to do a proper init check with a little math involved, not just a string match, of feature modules.

next time around, perhaps they could even forget the freakin' magic, and just use software keys to enable already-loaded features? that's worked for telco companies since the second digital voice switch.

who can blame me for saying this is batshit insane? and isn't the level-4 biohazard lab at the CDC still closed because they can't read the freakin' instructions?

sledgehammer the sumbuck into dust and buy a new computer. no problem.

and we don't keep logfiles, so we don't have to worry about checking for breakins and cooptions. hey, we don't comment or document our code, either, it's just us two guys. that way, we get to keep all the millions.

hang on, the phone just started melting and my screens went blue...

that thing gets in my way as a user all the time anyway. I do NOT want to see the stacks of pre-teen games, I am looking for a specific app almost all the time. just blow the sucker away, and if somebody wants to see downloads by counts, sell them an app to pull in the data.