Boeing 727 were built with a aft stairway door that opened like a cargo ramp, and often were used for debarking the plane in the days when jetbridges were not yet in common use. This is how the legendary D.B. Cooper jumped from a 727 into the forest after hijacking the Northwest Orient flight, so pilot could have exited in the same way. But he likely wouldn't have been carrying $200k in small bills.

Give the writer a break, he probably thinks anything bigger than an iPhone is a mainframe. Although, Unix/Linux eventually made it to the mainframe, especially on IBM z-Series.

Rogue was best enjoyed on a PDP or VAX minicomputer running BSD, and using a VT100 terminal; countless hours of Rogue were more than just entertainment, they trained my keyboard fingers to be very instinctive when writing code using vi.

Mod +3 on this comment! That's exactly what occurred in Los Angeles when the cost of fuel began to spike ever higher in the past 10 years, the MTA would cancel routes to save cost despite an increasing demand for seats by folks not willing to pay more each week at the pump.

Mass transit in the US is a make-work boondoggle in nearly all the nation, virtually all of the transit agencies are gov't or quasi-gov't with all the plodding inefficiency of rampant corruption and disinterest amongst the managers.

There is the group at www.xda-developers.com where you can get all the tools needed to jailbreak/root your Android phone. Also, www.androidcentral.com, www.androidforums.com, etc. which have very well organized forums for each Android device - whether phone or tablet.

And in Portland, they drain an entire reservoir after one guy takes a leak
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/16/Reservoir-drained-due-to-urine/UPI-10781308249177/

ummm... collecting rain is and has been illegal in a lot of places in the US because of senior water rights holders, these have been law since the 1800's when the western states were settled.

That has been my thought from the start. Speech rec is extraordinarily accurate now and IBM has a world class engine, so that would give a bit more of a real challenge to see Watson process the input of Alex's reading of the question. It's not clear why the team did not build that engine into Watson's front end, it certainly has more than enough power to run a speech rec engine. Of course, I'd love to have 50 servers running umpteen cores for my speech rec IVR system, but my firm won't give me the entire capital budget for this year...

Seems like the Square credit card swipe dongle is doing something similar. Does anyone know if the method is same as Hijack?

Look out, here comes Ungoliant!

There was measurable snowfall accumulation in Malibu in both Jan-2007 and Dec-2008, albeit for just a hour or so each time.