Skynet needed 25 days to become self-aware. Should we expect Slashdot entries on Christmas or shortly thereafter telling us that someone or something was born?

Actually if Kristanna Loken comes looking for me, I'm ok with it...

Unless the registrant paid cash, which is almost impossible online, they likely paid with a credit card. Check with your local prosecuting attorney about filing a fraud case against John Doe and see if they'll file subpoenas to the registrar and credit issuer for identification purposes.

This whole thing reminds me of a poem...

Sick

'I cannot go to school today, '
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
'I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more-that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut-my eyes are blue-
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke-
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is-what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is...Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play! '

Shel Silverstein

Did they only change password1 and admin1? What about such winners as admin, password, 123456, and default?

If you read the patent, it looks more like they describe a white-list. I'm pretty sure those existed before because I've never been allowed in any cool bars. Or Bushwood.

Before it was a call in service, it ran in my head....

But the storage device was buggy and lost information on a regular basis, had considerable system down time of 6-9 hours daily, was poor at multitasking, had considerable power demands, and was very poor at recognizing crap like rap, hip-hop, and techno. I'd post more about my brain, but some lawyers have already told me it's not really mine anymore since I'm married.

The letters X and Y were just dancing together with Elmo on TV. Nice to see you patched things up.

Facebook made it possible for non-geeks to be @ssholes on teh intarwebs...prior to that, they were contained in AOL's forums.

Apple has no right to phone home without specific user authorization.

I'm willing to bet your paycheck that authorization exists somewhere in the volumes of user agreements for either the phone, carrier, or both.

You mean the new iMow? I'm using it right now....sitting on it, in fact, whilst posting on Slashdot!

Perhaps I should volunteer for jury duty...I cannot tell the difference between the letters "i" and "o" apparently.

Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Saying programmers don't need advanced math is like saying your doctors don't need to take anything beyond 12 grade high school biology. While emergency room physicians and trauma surgeons need to have a rich knowledge base of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, your ophthalmologist can probably get by without knowing much about cardiac output or fluid resuscitation volumes.

But they still need to know ALL of the human body because their actions, while localized in some fields of medicine, can have effects on other areas of the system.

It's a service. Just like the phone company, janitorial services, accounting, and insurance.

The students and faculty don't clamor for input and transparency on which payroll company the university uses to issue paychecks and work/study payments, and there's something they use every day. Sounds to me like this is a lesson to be learned for a bunch of college brats who can't adjust to change.

"LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs"

Sounds like something a Congressional committee would come up with...