The directors commentary on the dish suggests that a lot of the old equipment was just sitting around in a spare room, and all they had to do to get the sets setup was just push it into the right place, if memory serves (been a while since i watched it, but perhaps it's time to watch it again)

I mean, until you hear the voice acting for the asian characters.

Uh. Locking the screen is the first entry in the ctrl-alt-del menu.

Try ctrl-alt-del, then hitting enter.

Until you get to Hong Kong and hear someone talk, you mean? :P

The various government agencies who're putting their entire database into computer systems, making them internet accessible, and getting hacked would make this choice about putting stuff online rather nonexistent :P

Exactly.

I avoided facebook for almost 2-3 years. Then someone I know/knew (never found out who), decided to impersonate me on Facebook. Then one of my friends finds out i "have" and account, and tells my new girlfriend, who promptly gets really pissed off at me for having a facebook account and not friending her.

I ended up making a facebook account just to avoid this kind of situation continuing (and i reported the imposter, who promptly removed themselves from search, and facebook ui bugginess prevented me from copying their account id number, etc (I hit block when they friended me, and then went to hit the 'report' button, but their page rewrote itself and removed the entire chunk of html before i could get close to clicking the report button)

Now i find out google's got a facebook clone, and all my friends are going nuts about it. And i find out "oh, don't worry, you're already listed in a bunch of my circles". Which means, i presume, i'm being tagged on shit, with no control, unless I sign up. Awesome.

This entire system can fuck itself.

And yet, one of my friends is named 'Killface' on facebook :S

uh,. no. that's not true.

You have to wait, last i checked, 2-3 minutes for the remote end to forget your old mac address. then you plug the cable back in.

I've had to do this, when swapping from a laptop (for the comcarse support or installation tech), and then as soon as they're gone/done, i turn off the modem, plug it into my linux gateway, and wait a few minutes. then turn the modem back on, and the linux gateway gets an IP immediately.

"And the bomb technicians claimed that having to perform the burning operation on new years eve at midnight was totally coincidental..."

The Xbox is getting it in the november update, if i remember the reviews correctly.

No. Now they're leading mandatory mass christ-a-thons in the American armed forces.

Not to mention Begging the question. To claim that science can't explain free will is assuming that free will exists to be determined in the first place.

I'm personally putting my money down on 'Chaotic but not free' will. Our brains are organized systems, but they're organized systems based on feedback loops that self-modify based on stimulae. They're incredibly complex, but they're still operating within the realm of biochemistry. What remains to be seen is how much quantum effects (such as the random position of an electron at any given time) can affect the self-modification process.

Of course, i'm hardly a neuroscientist, or a developmental biologist (both of which play a huge role here, not to mention a few other disciplines)

Ah, so you've got a completely normal consumer scenario down pat, then :)

And for the more complex data-binding scenarios, this is pretty much the best approach to getting it done quickly anyway. you quickly drag/drop the ui, set it up so that it shrinks/expands the right way, and then move on to doing the plumbing using the code view of the xaml. I spend more time hooking up esoteric databinding scenarios than I do fiddling with the UI (although i do enjoy using blend for the basic design aspects, i just don't need the storyboarding it provides when working on WPF)

The phone can't just remember the wifi key? seems like a rather essential feature to me.