Bus and taxi drivers in most deverloping countries have been doing this for over 40 years to my personal knowledge, and probably since transport began.

Captain Obvious used to own the patent until it expired.

Anyone on /. who does not know what ddos means should be condemned to a lifetime of reading DOS boot disks in binary with a plastic monacle.

Humans move into virtual reality.

The best suggestion in the whole thread - but a very poor reflection on the others :-{

Go back to your virtual world. "Free Markets" are a conceptual device like "frictionless inclined planes". They cannot exist in the real world, because of things like entropy and quantisation, and "stuff".

nouveau works fine now

As what? You certainly cant use it as a video driver. There are more kinds of wierdness than a ghost train, and it often prevents the machine from booting at all.

If SSL was an inconvenience to the TLA's, this would not be happening.

The boy-who-cried-wolf is the problem here. That story is at least 10,000 years old, and Google still have not got the message.

Perhaps Cartoon Network is not encrypted, so they have not watched it?

Why do we need security to view academic articles, adverts or mindless blather? Most people have no need of locking their rubbish bin (and most of what is on the internet is definitley rubbish - I have looked :-) There really are people who use the internet for other things than shopping!

There is every reason to have security for some things, but none for others.

Why force it on people? The result of this will be huge numbers of badly configured systems, and either over confidence or total loss of confidence in SSL.

Replacing economists with tossing dice would be a significant improvement: academic research shows the more qualified an economist, the less accurate his predictions!

I leave it to the reader to suggest what to do with politicians (I expect nuking from high orbit to be the most popular suggestion)

Leaving aside the fact that economists are a hopeless case, at least here in the UK, we have massive problems with our jobs market - huge numbers of people are working insanely long hours for peanuts, while others are working shorter hours for peanuts, and a minute number of people are decently paid, and a few make millions.

On top of this is the widely reported problem of "shortage of skilled workers" caused by a combination of agism and lack of willingness to pay them to do the job, not an actual shortage of skilled workers.

For example, today's news is that we are importing medical staff from Portugal, because the local people cannot survive on the wages, and the Portuguese cannot imagine how high living costs are here (especially housing and travel).

The jobs market is in need of some serious fixing.

Also the "Little Wonder" fuse blower - a NO switch shorting the mains supply through the fuse "under test". My grandfather claimed he worked for a company that sold them - but he also claimed loads of things too!

I am not too sure about that: I had a colleague who worked for a firm that used to manufacture tunnel monodes - a kind of single terminal tunnel diode. The tunnel diode is noted for having negative resistance. the resistance of a tunnel monode is the square root of -1!

They were extremely useful for one particular application, and indeed the best available solution in 1963, but the 60's intervened, and I don't actually remember what the application was (LSD was legal then) - I vaguely recall I was working on a time machine when I first heard about tunnel monodes. That was shortly before the project to show the Ike and Tina Turner show in your own home.

Sounds like a reasonably accurate translation to me (but I dont work there).

I used to have a whole box of 1N000 smoke-emitting-diodes.

They are easily recognised by the colour code "three black bands on a black background".

They are normally used to supply the "magic smoke" required by electronic systems to operate at full power, but I believe there are other uses.

I had a data sheet for a Motorola WOM as well - I believe from about the same date.

I prefer to document mine in "Foreign" thank you.

As a BT Customer, I can assure you that it stands for "Bloody Terrible", and the buyout is only feasible because the telecomms regulator is as toothless as a wet cabbage.

My friends who use it, assure me that EE stands for "Extremely Expensive".