I think the crackdown should be on Visa and Mastercard. Think about it; it's illegal to receive stolen goods, or sell stolen property, but the credit card companies are acting as intermediaries for these crooks. And, oh yeah, taking a cut (something like 3 - 5%). If the credit card companies had to take more responsibility for who they granted merchant accounts, under penalty of law, I'll bet these fraudsters would find it a lot harder to operate.

Would you be talking about the Musti Consortium? I was just reading this article about VistA and it mentions that hospitals in Finland forked VistA to create a suite of programs called MUSTI and Multilab.

This too, shall pass.

If Harper and his cronies get their way there will recording and monitoring devices installed in every ISP in the country. There goes your privacy.

That's the best description of porn I've ever seen!

Sept 13, 1999. Ten years and a few days late. Space:1999

Ah, thanks! That's the one I was thinking of, especially the huge flock of them at the end.

Leopard is $118 from Amazon. And you can go cheaper if you buy 'used'.
Or find a friend who has a spare license left in a family pack.

Methinks thou doest protest too much.

Ha! The joke's on him. The Zune web site is crawling with references to 'podcasting'.

Guess what the 'pod' part of 'podcasting' refers to?

A little citric acid-based solvent will clean that right up for you, and it won't hurt the case.

And he once had an awkward moment;

just to see what it feels like.

I observed that as the ratings went down, so did the amount of clothing she wore. There was a preview near the end where she strolled through the shot in a bra and panties.
(Do terminators even wear undies? Seems kinda pointless.)

Debatable. I saw Claudia Christian on stage at a con the weekend of the announcement, and she told her side of the story. She said that she had just asked for some time off (three or four episodes) to work on other projects, and Strazynski refused. That was the deal-breaker in her new contract, so she refused to sign. Then JMS spread the story that she was greedy. She said in public that she did not ask for more money.

As I said, this is her side of the story, but I found her very personable and believable.

Lots of hand-waving marketing bullshit. I'm sure they're going to keep using it internally, and the exploits will still happen with Microsoft code. Just like Microsoft applications will be ignored by UAC in Windows 7.

If they wanted to do something useful, they should have removed createRemoteThread instead.

Damn! I remember buying one of the very first flash drives, back in about 2000 or so. $50 for an IBM-branded 8 MB. 8 Megs, no typo.

He never ran the EFF (what a terrible thought!). He was Director of European Affairs for a while.