In hindsight, if they can kick our ass, maybe we shouldn't have named their homeworld Goldilocks. Quick, erase the records before they find out!

You forgot to add the /autotest so it won't ask it for anything.

Even better, it should have a demo system.

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While I don't deny Asperger's is a real illness and those who suffer it deserve any help they can get, I've yet to met someone who claims to suffer it and actually do.

Sometimes I see this expression and think, "why not? Maybe you *can* have it both ways"

He could be judged in a British court where he (allegedly) committed the crime *and* in the U.S., where he also (allegedly) committed the crime.

Since they are two different legal systems, double jeopardy should not be an issue. Suck it, Trebek!

But if OS X were available for purchase for your home PC, or as an alternative to Windows when you buy a Dell... you can bet you'd see Windows's share drop quite a bit.

Are you sure of that? I like OS X but I don't find it that much superior to Windows (specially the new Windows 7 which I like quite a bit).

And I wonder if most of Apple's touted "just work" features have to do with the fact that it's a closed OS running on tightly controlled hardware (thus running it on third party hardware might defeat this feature).

You already have an alternative when you buy your new PC: Linux (don't laugh now...) and it doesn't seem to be making that much of a dent on Windows' share of the market.

How much is a Franklin ACE Apple II clone computer worth today?

nslookup -q=ptr 69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa

Non-authoritative answer:
69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa name = the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com

Well, I'll be... I honestly didn't expect that. Duh...

Come on, it's not that hard to get one hundred pesos.

Cellular phone + RTFM or it will get broke into = _serious_ usability flaw

Yes, but what makes you think jailbreaking apps writers are interested in usability? It seems to me that if you are taking a device and making it perform outside its manufacturer-specified parameters, you are taking that responsibility upon yourself. If you are using your own tools or something provided by a third party is irrelevant.

How is this worse (responsibility-wise) than having a phone bricked because of a botched jailbreaking attempt?

I'm not writing off the users as stupid, but they are certainly not blameless.

I can't speak for symbian since I have never used it, but you can install unsigned applications on a blackberry, but you will need to specify the level of trust manually.

In my (limited) experience, Blackberry phones are pretty open.

Maybe it's time that the Internet standards get a few clauses added that express these concepts explicitly

And that would be enforced, how?

Took the words out of my mouth.

RBL are a pretty good tools, but they are only as good as the admin team and processes behind it.

"Esoteric" RBL like SORBS are the source of headaches of responsible mail and network admins.

But even SORBS is not much of a problem (not many mail admins use it to block email since they don't want all the false positives). Recently, senderbase has stepped up their efforst to be even more obscure in their reputation systems. And since they are a now Cisco product, you can bet a lot more "big players" are going to start blocking with it.

That's what I like about Spamhaus and Spamcop. They are pretty effective, provide clear instructions for removal/appeals and they always provide the cause of blacklisting, giving you a pretty good idea of where to start correcting whatever issue you may have.

And calendar, and tasks, and memos, and pretty much any kind of data you managed with Outlook.

Personally, Outlook is not my favorite e-mail client, but for integration of PIM features with email, I've yet to find something that works as well as it does.

And thank goodness for broadband.

Remember the days of 300/1200 baud dialup? That Pamela Anderson download would be halfway thru her chest and you would already be done.

And I know I'm dating myself (besides in *that* sense). Not because of the 300 baud reference, but by referring to Pam Anderson as fap-worthy material.