Yep, it really costs that much. Also, when Oracle bought sun, they scrapped the "free Solaris licensing" deal Sun had for educational institutions (universities, k-12) and also stopped providing security patches without a maintenance contract across the board.

Random vehicle searches already exist, primarily in the form of DUI checkpoints .. but after 9/11, I've seen them on main roads into/away from national parks, the hoover dam, and random other places.

Technically, sales taxes are supposed to be paid on all sales, first or subsequent. They're only generally enforced on things like used automobiles and other things that require licensing.

Sprint also now secretly caps the tethering data to 5GB, after which they start charging $0.05/kb. Sprint claims unlimited only applies to phones, not hotspot usage.

The picture in that article isn't the picture of the original comet-like bits from 1883 as no pictures seem to have been made of the event in 1883. Also, another observation of the comments from below the actual article .. A "flock of birds" flying between the telescope and the sun would most likely be perfectly in focus, at least judging from various internet pictures of airplanes flying between sun and telescope and my own personal observations of seeing both a seagull and a satellite passing in front of the sun while looking through a Lunt solar scope. The edges of both the seagull and the satellite were razor sharp while I was focused on the sun.

It could be called Angry Frogger!

I've purchased books for $0.99 just to check them out. In one case, the author's writing style was crap (imo .. who the heck writes fiction in present-tense?!?) so I won't buy any of his (much higher priced) sequels, but I'm not sweating the dollar it cost to find out I didn't like the author .. and the others I've purchased for .99 were good reads.

The problem here is body scanners wouldn't detect a vagina bomb in the first place. They only penetrate roughly 1/10th of an inch below the skin. Ironically, the explosives sniffers WOULD detect it but typically aren't being used in areas "protected by" body scanning devices.

Actually, in most places in the U.S. if you own a bar and a fight occurs in the bar, the bar owner(s) can be (and usually are) fined.

And here I thought it was a Groucho Marx quote.

This made me laugh right out loud. Bravo!

The problem is Palm is abiding completely by the terms of the GPL. Source for the package (and their modifications to it) are freely available: http://opensource.palm.com/1.3.1/index.html and have been for every released iteration of WebOS: http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html.

Continuing in the off-topic topic .. Here's what happened .. Probation and no jail time (again): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/ex-cop-anthony-abbate-get_n_219651.html

Do *you* know the actual physical volume of "60,000 metric tons" of nuclear waste, offhand?

Plutonium: 19816 kg/m^3 http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Plutonium.htm
Uranium: density = 19.05 grams per cubic centimetre = 19,050 kg/m^3 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Weight_of_1_cubic_meter_of_uranium

60000 tons / 19 tons per cubic meter = ~ 3158 cubic meters, or approximately 1 to 3 olympic swimming pools, depending on depth. http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/JeffreyGilbert.shtml

This nuclear waste stuff redefines the meaning of the term "heavy" in heavy waste.

U.S. law states that you may only legally enter an intersection if the way is clear for you to proceed through and exit the intersection. All those people that pull into the middle and wait to turn are actually breaking the law.