I've no idea whether she had a preference for the disposal of her remains, but I think there's a certain attraction in "burial" in a decaying orbit. It's been about 20 years since I read much McCaffrey, but ISTR that was a major aspect of threadfall from a planetoid in a weird harmonic orbit with Pern.

Only in Soviet Russia!

Hey, I saw that and thought of the caves immediately. There was a doco on ABC years ago about those, so the wikipedia article is not the "sole" claim to fame.

If beta 2 is out then it's indicative that iOS 5 isn't too far from public release. There are enough people who aren't registered developers but who may find this interesting that it's worthwhile running.

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(You know the traffic's shit when you can play cricket on the 3 lane each way freeway.)

As far as Apple is aware, I'm Steve Jobs.

Instead of just teaching the essentials in the early years and allowing them to choose their classes in high school, they force you to take classes which have nothing to do with your desired profession.

So you know *at age 16* what you want to do for the rest of your life? Congratulations! I'd suggest a large number of people here have changed professions/desires at least once since that age, and it's increasingly rare to stick with one basic job for life. Being multi-skilled makes changing paths much easier.

"A problem with books of collaborations such as this is that they often lack a consistent stream of thought."
A problem with this reviews is it lacks a consistent stream of thought. I know that this is /., but I really have trouble taking a review seriously when the author can't string two sentences together without my having to reread due to a change in tense or subject. I'm certainly not going to buy a $180 book on the word of a review like this.

E*x*presso?!?! Get out!
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Two theories, now let's sit back and see who's right

No theories, but two hypotheses. One of which is actually based on modelling and thought, the other on intuition that the Universe is a big place.

You may be right, but because the Universe is such a big place I *don't* think it's likely to be broken soon, since it's bloody hard to look around. The Tarantula Nebula is nice because it's recent, dense and relatively close, which means this could be found. Of course, they're all relative terms. We've been looking at the Tarantula Nebula for at least 250 years, and we've only found this one now...

YYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!

But a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it was discovered that sloppiness around exhaust ports on weapons platforms could lead to unanticipated attack vectors. Obviously the person in charge chose to learn from this mistake, although it wasn't widely known until 1977!

Your comments about unlocking and tethering aren't limitations of the iphone. They're limitations of the customisations your carrier has put on them (yes, I'm aware that in the US if you want an iphone not on AT&T you're SOL). I recently went to Europe from Australia. I phoned my carrier the day before I left asking for my phone to be unlocked, and was guided through the procedure (and SMSd the instructions as a backup!). I bought a prepaid SIM, synced with my laptop, set up the appropriate APN for the carrier, and I was away.

I also have USB and cable tethering available. Don't whinge about the iphone when it's AT&T being arseholes.

"Superseded" normally implies improvements. While Google/Deja provide a long term archive and searching support, they're nothing like as useful as a dedicated client to a newsgroup server for actually taking part in discussions. It's similar to the reason people use mail clients rather than just Gmail: you have more control over how you interact with others.