In those cases, the information (since it was gained as part of an intel and not LEO operation) would not be admissible.

"Why PC's Crash, and Mainframes Don't" (April 98) is still somewhat relevant today. I wish the archives were online.

is probably the "least bad" one I've seen. It would be nice if multiple ratings could be applied to a post, ("+1 funny, +1 insightful, -1 Troll") but it is fairly good at reducing the trolls and flamage.

But I don't expect that of the teabaggers infesting Slashdot these days.

Judging from the news stories the drive was recycled in 2011.

Don't worry, soon Slashdot will be coming out in favor of re-invading Iraq.

They bring them down!

So nowhere near good enough to ID a person, or even a vehicle.

A feature to us, perhaps (although it's not that difficult to get non iTunes files onto an iPad), but to the average consumer? If it isn't priced aggressively it will have trouble competing against the iPad.

So it's probably about the same as the equivalent Apple Product. But without anything like iTunes behind it.

The real problem here is people logging on to "comcast wifi" or whatever it's called using the same credentials they use to log on to their ISP account. How hard will it be for nogoodniks to set up hotspots called "comcast wifi" (or whatever) and scoop up all the credentials?

Here in NoVa Cox is doing the same thing.

What more would you need?

Which just means that he can be tried, again, in the proper venue.

And when you get indicted for saying something which is perfectly legal to say where you are, but a capital offense in some other country?

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Yeah, that is odd. Mods here are an odd bunch.

</hipster> I remember listening to NWA when I was in the Army in the mid 80's. Never thought any of those guys would end up anywhere other than San Quentin. And now Dre's a billionaire.