ISP: "Your password should be at least 8 characters and include at least one special character and one number" Online Service: "Your password should be 6 to 8 characters and include at least 1 number, no special characters. Next Online service: "Your password Must begin with a number and be at least 16 characters" and so on. Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds but it WOULD be nice once and a while...

there is one simple alternative: DO NOT FLY. When the Airlines see massive drop off in passengers when they feel this intrusive buttinsky security in the pocket book THEY will step in to help. Need to go to a meeting? do it online, going on vacation? see the local sites. If you must go overseas, try going by liner... Freedom begins when we all stop being cattle.

Klaatu barada nikto -now doesn't that sound like clear baby talk?.

I always thought deflection was inversely related to the amount of Kryptonite the asteroid contains.

Marginally related: This reminds me of a article I read many many years ago on research done with UV on Egyptian pharaoh Mummy bones. If during your life you have taken tetracycline, your bones will develop a UV glow not present if you have not. It seems there is was a swamp in lower Nubia that developed a insect the bite of which was deadly yet those who ate some local plant (I read this years ago and forget the specifics), developed an immunity due to naturally occurring tetracycline. UV glow can occur due to many biological reactions. By the way: The Mummies: Glowed ..

And with the crisp iPad screen I will be able to download/stream all my favorite movies for.... enter bill shock. The cheap up front, soak them on bandwidth American telecom paradigm needs to needs now.

Then fill out an incident report specifying what happened in language appropriate to pointy hair, including the requested power point presentation on how to better schedule unscheduled outages... These being the Geek skills that get the promotions..

and how to enjoy a coffee break

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yN6WfpaUQ its been done

does ANYONE know of another service ANY service like Paypal but run reputably? I am sure I am not alone in my own personal dislike with these people. I sympathize with Notch.

Subtitle: hit subtitle button on controller, then down/ down/ right/ enter One problem is multi-line subtitle /napear like this with /n instead of space. its a bug but they work and you get used to it.

Agreed. I also use Popcorn hour, before that I used a Avel Link Player and before that a MyIhome from El Gato ALL use the Sybas software. The Popcorn Hour handles the most encodes and you can plug in multiple servers. plus it will take a BluRay and a hard drive. Also the client for it runs on PC (XP Vista Win7) Mac 10.3 and on with a G4 of around 900mhz and up or Linux. Highly recommended

For years a direct corollary between hemlines and the DOW was observed; then came the mini skirt and all bets were off.

The human inverse squared Moore's Law takes hold. I would expect that after 10 years the 10 trillionth device would be plugged into the 4th dimensional matrix that traces its origin to today's interwebs. I would also suspect this device would be a just born human and all the concerns we have today of security, privacy, and data will look somewhat...quaint.

there are many utilities that can read each block-sector then re-create a index/VTOC or FAT table. Looks like a place to make some bucks in the tech support field.