"On the upside I don't live in Nebraska."

General Custer and his men are at Little Big Horn when his 2nd in command comes over to him...

Custer: What's the status?
2nd: Well, there's good news and bad news.
Custer: What's the bad news?
2nd: We're outnumbered ten to one, surrounded on all sides, and will surely die today.
Custer: Holy shit! What's the good news?
2nd: We won't have to travel back across Nebraska.

Is this a new Win7 command? Because it totally didn't work on my Win95 box.

What am I doing wrong?

But a file is actually software isn't it? This is more of a hardware hack.

Or am I missing something?

Heh. Me too. "They f--cked with the wrong Mexican!". Best. Movie. Tag-Line. Evar.

"I wouldn't be surprised either if the the devices sold by American companies had same backdoor for government wire-taping."

Wait, the government is taping wires to things now? I've heard some pretty wacky conspiracy theories in the past but this one sounds feasible! Any suggestions on how to protect ourselves from this nefarious plot? (I'm all out of tin-foil. Oh noes!!)

Roomba cleaning robot? I can't be the only guy whom thought it was a great idea.

I must be reading /. <|:-o ...rolls eyes... o-:|>

Meh... please notify me when wi-fi is ubiquitously free at airports.

I find it interesting that, with the current vote tally at 1076, more people claim to have had better pizza in Antarctica (27 votes), than in either Africa (20), South America (16), or even Asia (27).

So either penguin pizza is more awesome than I would ever have imagined - or it must really suck in those other places.

I love this line; "The result: it took five drama-packed years for the standard to come to fruition"

Yep, this has definitely kept me on the edge of my seat waaayyyy more than watching Lost or Heroes.

They can have my Windows 3.1 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers!

"still in the IT industry and laid a lot of networks."

Haha!! Who says geeks never get laid?

Oh wait...

"I'd love to know how much of that was stuff like Britney Spears."

Unfortunately, you'd probably have to measure that metric in Libraries of Congress.

"200 miles out to sea and you've just disabled their boat perminately - i'd say you've basicly killed them anyway by leaving the to die slowly from thirst."

Ok, I'll admit that I didn't RTFA. But I did at least read the summary where it says, "With the trials and testing we've done, it has taken us some 45 minutes to cut and disentangle the line from the propeller itself". So, I don't think anyone is being 'left to die slowly of thirst'. Is your reading comprehension really that poor?

BTW - I'd be more concerned with retribution from any pirates that might manage to catch you should this 'defense' fail. Methinks they might be a little pissed at that point.