They're military grunts, not PC repair men. Tell me, from looking at the case behind the LCD of a laptop, can you tell me where the hard drive is located?

Do you know what the symbol for "Arm" is on the firing control mechanism for an M1 Abrahms main gun? I'm guessing they have a better idea than you, but then again you have a better idea of which symbol means "hard disk" on a computer case.

It depends what "settling" means... paying damages doesn't grant you license to continue using the works, only complying with the license or obtaining a new license would do that. Once they comply with the license it doesn't matter (in that sense) who it was that brought it to trial. If a new license it obtained, that will only cover the works of the copyright holder who granted the new license, not work done by other people under the previous license.

but if autorun is disabled you're suppose to use the file manager to browse to the USB device and execute it.

That is why I said lock the computer, then they can't get to the file manager.

Microsoft already knows what they need to patch, seeing as they know what source code they leaked.

armed thugs stop the travellers on a regular basis, and demand all sorts of things from them, at gun point. like removing clothing, penetration of clothing (tap search inside pants), stealing items like water bottles and knifes, or destroying property as here. in worst cases they can even enslave you (called arrest and inprisonment now, or rendition)

this is not much different from the middle ages, where bandits would stop travellers, and demand all sorts of things from them at the threat of physical violence. at least, at that time one could prepare and fight back.

Have you correlated the responses of specific posters here who are in support of copyright enforcement for GPL with their responses to other topics where the copyrights were held by the MPAA/RIAA/whatever? And have you then determined how many of these posters have differing opinions on copyright infringement depending on who the copyright holder is?

If not, you're just lumping everyone together and making a generalization that fits your own personal gripe, with no basis whatsoever.

If you have, then you should be talking to those people specifically, rather than trying to criticize the "slashdot crowd", which is a pretty pathetic windmill to tilt at really ...

Obviously after a long day on the job I understand that this person would just want to go home, eat a pizza and do something completely different. But I'd be concerned about the coder that didn't have any pet projects, any interest in coding outside work like a ski instructor that never just goes skiing. No deadlines, no pressure, no dealing with poor specs, annoying customers or superiors.

You clearly don't have kids. This notion that you go home and laze around after work only applies while you're young and single. Households don't run themselves. Don't expect your wife to do it all either. She'll be exhausted from a day of looking after kids and will want you to help out.

You could try getting a job and a girlfriend (or boyfriend). Between the two, your free time will disappear in a heartbeat.

You say you have both? Ok, now get a fulltime job, and find a girlfriend who isn't cheating on you.

Quakelive works on linux now, have a go!

Something happens on the space station and for some reason the station cant communicate with earth...whos in charge?

The station commander.

In an emergency he would make certain decisions such abandon the station or stay put.

While ground controllers can give direction, you always want to have someone on site who can actually
  act on those directions and tell people what to do. A station commander is not for things you expect, its for the things
you dont expect.

You guys are all missing the point. The ssn requirement is there because sprint will be running periodic credit checks on its customers. Sprint is probably subsidizing the phone and, internally, they must have customer activation goals to meet (like, the number of new customers who remain active after X months and so on) The credit checks are there because, as sprint subsidized the phone, you'll be actually repaying it back in installments through the phone usage fees. they could sell the device at full cost, but then wouldn't be able to force you to sign up for a 18 month contract. After you become a customer, the ssn is used for credit checks. If your credit score indicates trouble, then sprint will use that information to either try to get you to move to another plan or will send the collectors to get their money before you actually miss a payment. This is not about privacy, but about managing an instrument sale.

Obviously the planet Mercury is a terrorist and should be destroyed. I'd suggest waterboarding it, but it's so hot there that it might like it.

(and, I know you later said that the actual savings were higher -- but the point is, you should _never_ just multiply reoccurring costs or savings by the number of periods to get the equivalent present value, especially for periods of years.)

out of legimitate curiosity... why?

really, I just want to know the implications of doing so and what needs to be done to incorporate that information into financial models

the uac model is inherently broken. I cannot understand how these paliative measures will improve security beyond just the sense of it....