The only thing I want to know is how far away the lethal response anti car theft devices are.

The flood of spam from Yahoo accounts is because of "porn" or "warez" sites that loads an hidden iframe on Firefox. This iframe opens the user's Yahoo account and spam everyone in the address book. Only Firefox have that problem with hidden iframes and Yahoo mail.

Together with hydroxyl acid

Updated the file to current and included all magnitude 1 quakes (+6400 events). I added time stamp data so you can play with the animate tool in Google Earth. Set the replay speed to slowest and the Start/Stop time to cover two days.

http://www2.tripnet.se/~fredrik/hierro_2011-11-15.kmz

I made a simple Google Earth Keyhole Markup file with all quakes this year with a magnitude of 2.0 or greater on the Richter Scale

http://www2.tripnet.se/~fredrik/hierro.kmz

The information were gathered from Instituto Geográfico Nacional's web page: http://www.01.ign.es/ign/layoutIn/volcaFormularioCatalogo.do

Sounds like they are firmly stuck in the Microsoft swamp or they're going to sell the computers through their second hand stores. The demand for the original disks is probably something their lawyers have demanded to keep their asses covered in case of malware infections. They're trying to provide as little support as possible by not installing Linux on them. "Here are the original disks, use them and don't bother us when it doesn't work."

Planned obsolence. Just a more obvious variant, since they didn't bother to block them from working when using them with other OS:es.

Some new USB hard drives comes preformatted or at least have a small partition loaded with drivers and/or backup software.

Bobby Tables, anyone?

Calm down, all information/search providers does it. Maps have intentionally misplaced or nonexistant roads. Phone books with bogus entries.

Why?

They're called markers. If a competitor copies your data, he's copying the errors too. And data full of copy protection markers is easy to prove in front of a judge. Eniro, the largest yellow papers here in Sweden, slammed Gulan thanks to those markers.

I remember seeing a instruction video about why you had to bolt large drives to the floor. If the bearings failed, the drive wouldn't stop until it hit something solid, like a wall.

Sarkozy is a MS shill. Remember when MS bought the ISO standard? The French ISO members were supporting ODF, but were ordered by the French government to vote for MS. The boss of MS France and Sarkozy are old friends.

Saw a documentay, about an engineer, that went thru the documents about the Challenger disaster. He pointed out a video that the Rogers Comission had overlooked, showing the leaking coming out in puffs i.e. the booster sections were rocking. This was caused by wind shear. Extreme wind shear were mentioned in the report, but they didnt investigate it further.

The shuttle would be able to launch in temperatures lower than 53 F, but only if the weather were calm. NASA had one or two launches where they noticed that the seals failed in similar temperature conditions, but the slag (aluminium oxide) build up caulked the seals shut.

Logitech BT adapter?

if so, the BT adapter emulates HID devices during boot and Ubuntu set the dongle to behave like a BT stack (HCI-mode) without keeping the keyboard and mouse connected. It reconnects the devices after the login... And it does a lousy job keeping the devices connected. The mouse usually lose connection after it has gone to sleep and you have to remove it manually and pair it again. You can keep the dongle in HID-mode by commenting out a couple of lines in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-hid2hci.rules

The Logitech section should look like this:

# Logitech devices
#KERNEL=="hiddev*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="c70[345abce]|c71[34bc]", \
# RUN+="hid2hci --method=logitech-hid --devpath=%p"

The music stock will be sold and we will see yet another flood of "Best of" CDs that the new owners releases to recoup the cost.