Except there isn't really sufficient evidence the AC means to assassinate or request someone assassinate the prosecutor. See last Sunday's discussion: http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/24/0324253/Online-Call-To-Shoot-President-Ruled-Free-Speech. So, I think even his words would qualify under free speech.

No, it's probably a brilliantly evil plan. Apple knows the MAFIAA has legions of lobbyists working to prevent "piracy". If they can convince the MAFIAA that this is a required technology, then other phone makers will be forced to either pay extortion fees to Apple, or put out of business since they will be unable to comply with federal law.

I wasn't very old, but I think Nixon was the furthest left in my lifetime.

You're a bit off there. There are uses beyond gamers for the newest cards, and as much hope as I had for the GTX 590, I think nVidia missed it too. The answer is GPU computing. The way I see it (I may be myopic), is that $700 for a GPU is cheap for the computational performance. Sadly, the GTX 590 under performs because nVidia was worried about noise & power more than FLOPS. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to buy banks of cards and put them in a room where I can't hear them. So, despite weeks of waiting, we'll be going with the GTX 580 as it beats the GTX 590, Radeon 6990, and Radeon 5970 for our uses.

Maybe it's more because I'm not a serious gamer, but I've been looking at a bank of these cards for GPU computing. More computing power, less space, faster transfer across cards rather than network, and less overhead costs associated with buying more systems. We bought the Radeon HD 5970 & GeForce GTX 580 two weeks ago for comparisons. This week will tell us which platform is better for our needs since we need to move from theory to reality.

For home use, I'd keep using the GeForce 8800 GTX, but I'm the lucky recipient of the card that doesn't win.

I think this suggests using an elder "protip". It's called haggling. The other month, I was looking for a nice ceiling fan to go into a home office. I went to Lowes and Home Depot. Nothing really impressed me. I went to a local floor & lighting center which had the fan I wanted. I wrote down the model numbers, went home, and looked it up on the internet. Amazingly (I had never seen this before), the store was cheaper than anywhere I could find online (at least $25). There was still a problem, the fan was $75 more than I had budgeted. I spoke with the sales guy and told him, I was really looking for the $300 range and $375 was more than I could part with. He tried to talk me into other models, I said the other's didn't appeal to me, and if I wanted to settle, I'd go back to Lowes where I saw one for $150 that was pleasing enough. Well, after a bit of time and some more discussion, I walked out of there with my fan for $305. I saved almost $100 over the internet price, and $75 from the store's initial price.

Is the one buried a mile under ground in 100' radius of concrete connected to nothing. Preferably in an undisclosed location. Even then, it is only as secure as the guards protecting it.

This is the 3rd article today mentioning them. Why is anyone even paying attention to them? Give them anonymity with obscurity. If these are just a bunch of rotten 12 year olds, then ignore them and maybe they'll grow up. Assuming Wikileaks is a good cause, was it even worth it to "hit" Amazon, Mastercard, and PayPal? If these kids are even remotely successful, they will come to regret it when they apply for jobs, and these companies make sure they are unemployable. It's like the old song says, don't pull on Superman's cap, spit into the wind, and don't mess with Jim. Amazon, Mastercard, and Paypal are Jim.

Would their battle with snow be equivalent to spitting into the wind?

14.4k? Ha! Such luxury, I still have a 300bps in the closet from my Vic 20 and the upgraded 2400bps modem for my Amiga.

You're thinking all wrong man. I own a "vinyl cutter" (Wishblade) that came with some great software. I can do just about anything I want with it. I've made tons of stencils for cakes, woodworking, fabric patterns and other stuff for people. I can scan an image and have it on the cutter in minutes. There's a problem with it. It takes time to learn. It took me about a day to learn and I'm technically adept. My roommate, it would take her a long time to learn. She's been watching me make stuff for a year, and wouldn't know where to begin. She bought a machine which does something similar, but is far more limited. She bought a Cricut. She has made more stuff in the 3 weeks she's had it, than I have all year with mine because it is so easy for her to make stuff. The Cricut is not versatile. It is not cheaper than the Wishblade. It doesn't do half the cool stuff I can do. But she learned it in just a few minutes.

Wishblade made a very nice product, and they will get to sell me overpriced cutting blades at $20 a pop. Cricut will not only sell their blades at $20 a pop, but you have to buy "fonts" to make it work at $20-$100 a pop. Her friends own about a dozen font cartridges each. Her friends don't need to buy expensive software or even own a PC. They just own a Cricut which holds their hand so they don't have to do any thinking outside the box.

I'm trying to figure out how to make a 3d fab machine that takes font cartridges I can sell bajillions of. As a person very capable of doing stuff, I love the Wishblade over the Cricut every day of the week. But there is far more profit selling the Cricut. Photoshop is awesome, but when half the population doesn't understand MS Paint, your aren't going to sell to many copies of Photoshop.

I've spent way more than 100 hours on Civ I, II, & IV. My nephew has played hundreds of hours of Pokemon. Someone below mentioned tetris, which I think I've spent dozens of hours playing, which leads to other games like bejewelled & bookworm.

I know there are minimalist fans out there, and people who hate old keys, but I use every key on my keyboard. It already galls me to no end that I can't find an ergonomic wireless keyboard that hasn't made my function keys into some damned media key. Now I have to try and hit the damned f-lock key in just a few milliseconds as I try to get into the BIOS on start up, or I'm hitting keys wondering why they aren't working because I didn't hit the damned f-lock. Just because you don't use those keys doesn't mean they should be taken away from me.

Even better (for you), have you looked at chorded keyboards? I think those are exactly what you are looking for.

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I wasn't sure. The picture here was only a face (and you can tell nothing about its edibility by a face), so I went and did a Google search, and found the Red Panda on Wikipedia. Apparently, they use to classify these similar to raccoons. That may be because they tasted similar. Now the diet of the animal may indicate it should be seasoned slightly differently. Might try substituting the Worcestershire for soy sauce, and juniper berries for bamboo shoots & watercress. The Zane Grey cookbook I have at home might also have some very tasty recipes; otherwise, it looks like the . One day I'm going to try the squirrel recipes from that book, but the local parks prohibit taking their squirrels, and the ones in the forest are diseased.