If it was a we-all-have-iPhones-and-you-are-the-odd-one-out situation, then the texts may be going through, or accompanied by, apple's proprietary text network, similar to the Blackberry messenger system. I seem to remember when I initially set up my jailbroken, unlocked iPhone, it was asking for my iTunes account information and said something about a separate messaging network.

Frequently, the iPhone itself decides how it wants to send your messages. It could well be that the sender's iPhone knows which contacts can receive the apple-enhanced messages. The phone then decides to just send you a regular SMS since you can't receive the apple-enhanced messages. My iPhone is on a text-and-voice plan with no cellular data and I can never tell whether my text is from someone who sent it to multiple recipients.

Just a suggestion- You'll be a lot harder to shoot if you are running away than if you are sitting on the guy. You know- in case this situation ever comes up.

Sure. Just go grocery shopping and you'll see your tax dollars at work in the checkout line. The problem I have with ever-expanding government food programs is that it drives the prices up for those of us living independently.

Hey Mods. It has been awhile since I have been on here because the conversation has been going downhill. This is one example. Your +1 bonus when you have excellent karma should be used only when you have a really excellent point. Otherwise, mod it down! Just my moderation advice. Worth as much as you paid for it.

Informative? Really? In my opinion, this is Off-topic and Flamebait. But with the declining general quality of Slashdot over the last couple years, I have stopped being so obsessive about using my mod-points and so don't get them very often.

Actually, since their stuff is based on his stuff in the first place, I don't see how it could be perjury.

They just have to say, "OK. Sorry. We'll stop distributing it now." However the fact is that it continues to distribute itself.

At the risk of feeding a random troll (where did 150,000 come from?), the Additional Child Tax Credit is available to those making 50,000, which I would say is middle class if you have lots of children.

Not really. The Additional Child Tax Credit also works for those who have lots of children. A person who makes too much for EITC can still get a sizeable gift (1000+ per child) from the Feds depending on his other deductions.

In the second paragraph on page 4, Mr. Mandia says that over 90% of the private enterprises don't know their networks have been compromised until they learned from the FBI, DoD, or some other third party (emphasis added). However, in the last paragraph of page 5, he says that over 90% of the breaches his company responds to are first detected by the government.

The "some other third party" phrase seems more realistic to me unless he deals mostly with government agencies themselves.

Here is a good discussion on the topic, complete with analogies and a little humor- http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-at-a-company-do-they-have-intellectual-property-rights-to-the-st/20136#20136

My solution is to look poor. I store my laptop in a cardboard box and drive a 1988 Chevy Nova.

Looks like he was 66 years old when he died. Please fix the headline.

> How so? It's accepted as a free software license not only by the OSI but by the FSF as well.

Actually this may be a bit misleading. The MS-PL is firmly on their list of "GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses". This means that they urge you not use this license and it is incompatible with the GNU GPL.

Trapping is good clean fun. I got into it checking out a book from the library called "Tiniest Game Hunter" or something like that. Given enough time and ingenuity, trapping is the way to go. I have had good luck with the spring-loaded oversize mousetraps, but my somewhat more wealthy friend recommends the Rat Zapper 2000.