Surprising indeed. There are only about 70 stars within 80 light years of us

That's how LNP (Local Number Portability) works. When you get a phone, the law has determined that you own the number, essentially. So you can carry your home phone number over to a cell number with tracfone, and then later take it over to AT&T, should you so desire. Most carrier's will have you set up your new account with them first, let them know where your number is coming from, and they will take care of the transfer. So you do have two accounts with the same number, albeit very briefly.

At 10:20am (Sydney time)Friday 13th November, I have:
2x Desktops
3x laptops
1x Monitor
The monitor is hooked up to a KVM. I use one laptop as my primary PC (dual screens)
One desktop is a test PC (running Windows 7)
One desktop is currently being configured for a user.
The other two laptops are also being configured for users.

Someone mentioned VMs in an earlier post. In my situation, this is not an option (unless I wanted to test Win7, but I have a spare PC, so why not?)

You would be able to adjust your own pacemaker if you sat at the exact distance away from the wireless transmitter.

Heya, what about the protocol doesn't support REST?
I'm not aware of anything, but if you can point it out, I'm happy to try to fix it.

The purpose of this exercise can be found here:

To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Internet, DARPA is hosting the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.

And another thing:

How many column inches did your corporation dedicate to Balloon Boy? If the answer is more than "1", then I submit that your corporation is part of the problem, not part of the solution. That is an example of what is wrong with for-profit journalism, and the very reason that many of us would be happy to see it die its rightful death.

You want to be a journalist? I applaud you, for we have very few of those left outside of YouTube and the blogosphere (though those media, of course, comprise also the typical rabble of any crowd) -- it might be refreshing to have a member of the traditional media who cared first, last, and always for journalism over sales. If that is you, then may I kindly suggest that you discard the shackles of that sensationalist rag-shadow of a once noble institution, and do what you claim to believe in. Show me your ethics, then perhaps I shall consider your message to have some principled weight.

Wow - irrational Apple hate. We sure hate those are successful...

Apple's network is closed for quality issues, but still the most open network in regards to user accessibility. We have more to fear from special interest biased politicians - and politicians in general - than we do from Apple who makes things we actually like and work. Compared to Apple products, the work politicians have done in the last 100 years are still in an extreame pre-alpha instable and buggy phase. Why would anyone value a politician's opinion to begin with?

A company has an obligation to insure the quality of the products and services it said. If we look at Microsoft - their 3rd party contributors are riddled with incompatibilities and gaping security holes. Not to mention the MS etremely closed media system is worse than the Apple system. Half of MS media doesnt even work with MS media apps. Apple's iTunes etc are available to the most computer users regardless of their OS. Where was this yahoo politician 5 years ago when MS was the only solution?

As for things like software, apps, etc. Closed systems is standard amongst video game consoles, video games (PS[x], Nintendo,XBox, Sony hardware in general, Adobe Flash) And consumers are generally OK with it. How is the iPhone any different? Sure we all bitch about it - I know I bitched about not being able to play MS media for years. When Apple delivered something I could access I jumped on it. And everyone else is jumping on it because it works the best. Apple is the quality leader that all other computer software and hardware makers strive to be.

The Times, or "The Times of London" as Slashdot sometimes call it, was founded in 1785 (though it wasn't called The Times until 1788). I doubt very much that it was the first newspaper in the UK though it's probably one of the oldest still around.

PostScript is also a free specification, but NeXT was using the Display PostScript implementation licensed from Adobe. They switched to something closer to PDF because, it turned out, no one actually cared about the nicer features in PS. With DPS, you could write view objects entirely in PostScript and have them run on the display server. This was quite slow and had all sorts of problems in that the PS programs could (potentially) run forever. Most people just used the drawing subset of PS, which is also available in PDF, and none of the flow control stuff.

You're assuming competently designed software. What if it's accessed by a pointer in several hundred places, or you make a copy of it somewhere? That's another variable to keep track of.

I'm sure the constant threat of their government funding being cut would NEVER affect their critical coverage of said government.

Nor their coverage of bills to increase or decrease subsidies, of course.

Rockets and Mortars? Meet the MTHEL. :-)