The issue is, the mining of precious metals from the moon will devalue the gold.

I didn't say it was logical. I've seen plenty of examples of both corporate and government stupidity where corners were cut at the beginning without thinking it through.

But, more than anything it was a joke. No need to get your panties in a bunch. :P

I wouldn't put it past some of the unscrupulous companies out there to do so to avoid the purchase price of the robots.

Miners trapped in mine collapse on the moon...

And I thought the miners in South America had it rough waiting for rescue.

You are assuming that the others are not as that is not mentioned in the article.

Now if it was stated that the others refused to comment on it, that would be different. But as it states that MS comprises 30% of thier business, it is possible MS was the only company that Daily Mail contacted.

-1 for assuming!

Does this mean that because of the overhead aerial view, Spy Hunter was not a good indicator of my driving skills?

I guess I should get a refund on the oil slick kit and the rocket launchers I purchased.

Damn!!!

is not the texting per se, but the lack of intelligence of the driver. Washington state has passed a law prohibiting talking on your cell phone without a hands-free device for the same reason.

I know several people who can drive and talk on or text with their phone without a problem. The key is, they know better than to do it in heavy traffic that is moving more than 10 miles/20 km per hour.

The same problem occurs with individuals carrying on conversations with their passengers, reading the newspaper, changing their radio, etc, etc, etc. It comes down to common sense. Which is, unfortunately, less and less common these days.

People just need a boogie man to blame for the problems and today's society says it is politically incorrect to say that many people are just stupid when it comes to driving. We, as a society, need to grow a set of balls and call the stupid people stupid. Their feelings are not protected by any laws.

This is why it is referred to as Battle Stargate in the SyFy forums. I prefer Stargate Galactica.

Don't forget ColdFusion, PHP, JSP and the host of CGI languages that you can accomplish the same server-side functionality.

You can check the links without visiting the site. Even visiting the site is not a huge risk, as long as you are not on IE.

If it is an HTML formatted email (which most are) then you can hover over the link to see the actual address.

While it is true that character compinations or UTF-8 characters can be used to try to fool you, I have not seen that too often. Usually it it more like http://www.ebay-securitycheck.com/ or the like. They do not use the real base domain.

Even banks/credit unions who use different urls for the online banking still have you log in at their main site.

Indeed. jQuery rocks. I have started introducing it to existing apps here. I just wish the other developers would see the beauty and not remain tied to archaic methods.

You could also do this, I would think, using stored procedures for data reads as well as writes.

The first step in a read of unlocked data would be to lock the row/dataset. You can accomplish this with a "lock column" which is just an id column. This id can be a user id or more appropriately a session id.

Then on the submit, the record is unlocked by removing the entry in the "lock column".

Only a matching user/session id can write to that data.

Upon reading, if the "lock column" is not null, read in the data but notify the user that it is read only.

*** Disclaimer ***

It is early and I just came up with this off the top of my head, so there may well be flaws with, or at least a better method to acomplish, this task.

It is off. I know that for a fact.

I was talking about turning it off.

But I can turn the GPS and cellular radio totally off independently as well, just a couple clicks.