Wouldn't call this a Chic-Fil-A. They're anti-gay lobbying is done with corporate funds. This is just one guy donating his own money. It's his opinion and he is allowed to have one. I can stand by him for having an opinion even though I don't agree with him.

I worked at a retailer a while back whom had a number of Sprint phones. A guy I worked with stole a demo model unbeknownst to us. Sprint didn't worry about it. They just sent us a new phone. The guy attempted to activate the phone and got busted because sprint had the serial of the phone. Then went to jail.

My wife's phone was stolen and I hoped to see it returned or hear something from Verizon, but all they did was motion for cash for a new phone. So putting a stop to this is possible. However, the wireless companies apparently choose to look the other way when Joe Thug tries to activate a phone he stole and then could be said to be dealing with stolen property.

My employer is planning on falling back to antivirus for defense. I work at a hospital with thousands of workstations almost all of which are XP. While I don't do any real browsing at work other than following weather in the event it's severe or big news stories, many people do and lack the "common sense" antivirus suite in their head.

And I thought Florida was just a state where you could get away with murder.

You mean government officials don't know everything? C'mon, if Schiavo said a tiny black hole would suck in our entire universe, then obviously science will bend to her words!

"What country is that?" "I dunno, but let's free the shit outta it!" :KABOOM!:

Look at our ever-climbing debt ceiling. Our government hasn't learned shit.

I'm inclined to lean toward this being a rogue pilot. Since 9/11 I feel like hijacking a plane is a really bad idea with a low chance of success. Perhaps I have some culture bias; in the United States, I'm sure there would be some opposition to a plane being taken over. Personally, I would assume the worst would happen and I'd be in the opposition. Bias set aside, if the passengers had no indication there was deviation to the flightplan, then there would be no opposition. The most likely way of not arousing suspicion would be if all events transpired exclusively in the cockpit.

Yeah, I saw this at EPCOT like 15 years ago, except it was made by Volvo. I'm not sure what the advantage is of the driver being in the middle.

Rapid application development perhaps. Hospitals are trying to get these systems up and running for the sake of cash deposits and reimbursement from Uncle Sam and every company who can write software, good or bad, wants a piece of it. And yeah, it may run on windows. One of the fluoroscopes in my lab runs Win2K.

And you are associated with those ugly smelly nerds from the 1970s. But you have lower self-confidence and have to post from behind AC shroud. Fuck beta.

If you can't get "Close and don't show me again" right, then you shouldn't be coding a whole new Slashdot. I see that fucking notice every time I come here and click "DON'T SHOW ME AGAIN" each time. Oh, yeah: FUCK BETA.

Sum it up: changes are coming, a polite fuck you, we are culminating a new audience by sending 25% of unauthed users whi may have never heard of slashdot before, another polite fuck you, classic slashdot is still going away, we the corporate assholes are slashdot and not the community. The whole summary amounts to a colossal polite "fuck you guys."

Im assuming there's a young punk-ass web developer who made a righteous bullshitty pitch to the suits at Dice to make a new slashdot. It sold them, but he didn't add it would likely destroy the entrenched user base. But that isn't his problem. His problem is trying to get these suits to come out of the dark slimey wet putrid hole they all live in to throw cash at him for a shiny new website.

Screw this. I'm gonna go make my own news for nerds aggregator. With black jack. And hookers! In fact, forget the news aggregator...

I'm still seeing it at the top of classic slashdot.

Nuff said. You're just pouring gas on a fire with your base. Slashdotters are apparently happy with the site as is and appreciate its familiar usefulness. Beta fucks it up. FUCK BETA.

There's enough unpatched Windows XP desktops up for grabs on eBay and yard sales to make this happen. Worked for utility companies.