That's exactly what I was going to sugest. I've got one of the logic probes already and they are great for the price. I'm not sure the rigol scopes are still as upgradeable as they once were but they are still a cheap 50Mhz scope

Which is fine until you need those features. They may have also taken 20-30 mins to make absolutely sure they were doing the right thing and it wasn't going to break anything. Where as you would just change it, and see what happens and if it broke something, then you'd look to fix it.

Not breaking something in the first place is something you learn after you've broken a couple of large systems by not fully understanding the problem

Except it's not dual band, if you realy want to get decent N transfer speeds you need 5Ghz support, even more so if you plan to connect any Apple hardware, since it'll only connect at 300Mb/s on 5Ghz

Not only that, but if your software is smart it only greylists server that it hasn't ever sent an email to anyway. So after the first week of being installed all your important customers are automatically whitelisted

What annoys me (and I live in NZ) is that while Kim Dotcom is almost certainly a sleezy guy and hardly trustworthy, he didn't break any laws in NZ.

The NZ law enforcement agencies should have told the US agencies to get lost and released a press statement giving the details.

Of course, why the government allowed his residency in the first place is my real concern, given his criminal background. I guess promising to invest 10 mill in a country of 4 million people buy's a lot of bygones

Since people have been throwing around numbers of $20k just to release an update on XBLA then I would suggest even if there is more piracy, profit is probably going to be greater.

Of course, you're assuming an either/or situation when it's not. If this comes about it will be one more platform developers will need to port too, and if they don't then their profit from the platform is zero, if they do it'll be more than zero (assuming they sell in the first place.

You define remote as internet, I define remote as not on the local machine, which of us is right?

The Xerox Star had network capability, it certainly could have pulled data from another computer

Well, you see officers have these things called eyes.

If said officer has a pistol to hand he can absolutely get it directed at the suspect before a suspect can reach into a bag, find a gun and remove it from the bag.

From there all the officer has to do is wait and see what emerges from the bag, and pull the trigger if appropriate.

Obviously warning that is the suspect does not cease his actions the officer will fire.

Of course there is also the possibility of using non-lethal force to subdue a suspect

This is exactly why most RAID cards to patrol reads during low activity.

Of course, that assumes you use a real RAID card rather than software RAID. I'm not aware of any software raid implementation that does patrol reads

No UPS will be good enough for that. It'll be forever switching to battery when a big machine is switched on.

You need to isolate all your heavy machinery from all your other outlets. Course any decent electrician will quote that as a matter of course anyway

Personally I would say pull multiple cables to everything that isn't moving.

In a couple of years time when they decide to move some offices around there is nothing worse than find the old office you only pulled 4 ports too now has to support 6 people

It always bugged me that the Earth ships had fixed weapons front and rear only, if you're building a space warship, you would absolutely need full 360 degree (on all axis) weapons capability.

Imagine a WW2 era bomber that only had guns a tthe front and read

He did (well something like it), it's in the commentary for one of the episodes on DVD. He also said it with sarcasm (as was apparently not made obvious enough in the parent post).

In the commentary it's said as something like "We took artistic license", knowing full well there is no noise in space but putting it anyway or there would be whole sections of the show that were silent

So, the summary itself says they DO include a microSD slot behind the cover.

Yet everyone is bitching like this is an iPhone with no expansion possible...

Honestly I'd rather not have an ugly SD card slot on the outside of my phone, they are huge. A microSD slot... yeah ok, but it's still better hidden since you very rarely need to swap out the card.... which is exactly what this phone has.

How is this even a story?

That's true, but it's usually for any number of other reasons than this :)