like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...

Interesting point. There were fewer devices in '98 available to be used to receive a back channel message. Could this be a case of technology evolving so fast it obviates a patent before it has expired? What might have been considered non-obvious then would certainly be obvious now.

Mounting things to light poles is 10,000 times more practical.

For years, we have had a cut-out in ITAR 121 that applies to Open Source, it is due to a lawsuit that Phil Karn brought against the Federal Government. Thus, you can implement with impunity, and export to anywhere, as long as it's Open Source.

Rather than an encryption gateway, having your email client handle encryption avoids the problem of man-in-the-middle attacks between the gateway and the client.

I don't have much reason to encrypt, but Thunderbird has my certificate installed and does my digital signing. This is not unusual for a modern email client.

They have some pretty neat equipment for finding the utility lines. Just the other week I saw the water company come through marking the water lines. One guy with a spray can followed the other who was holding this stick with a fork in it. The pointy end always pointing at the ground.

Yes, the German one looks a lot more impressive, with a real person in it (piloting using the remote control) rather than a mannequin.

I had a customer who thought I was crazy for suggesting that all they really needed was chroot for their particular task. In the face of VMs people don't realize that simplicity often works better.

Xen's biggest obstacle right now is KVM. I am no VM expert, but I've been impressed with how well KVM runs, supporting non-VM-aware versions of Microsoft Windows among other things. It's really fun to put that Windows screen on the face of someone's iPad and watch them freak out when they see it's not a screenshot, somehow their iPad got Windows 7 installed on it!

I think her justification for the title of the song was that none of the examples in it were actually ironic... which in itself is ironic.

When a technical person who isn’t familiar with patent law reads a patent they often come away with a misunderstanding of what the patent actually covers – usually thinking that it is much broader than it actually is. This gives the impression that the patent covers things it doesn’t, and then leads to the impression that it is overly broad, obvious and shouldn’t have been granted.

My impression that a patent is overly broad does not stem from a misunderstanding from reading the patent. It comes from the overly broad litigation tactics wielded by the patent holder.

• Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Higgs Boson Particle.
• Caution: Higgs Boson Particle may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
• Higgs Boson Particle should not be weighed, measured, or otherwise looked at or it will cease to exist.
• Do not use Higgs Boson Particle on concrete.
• Discontinue use of Higgs Boson Particle if any of the following occurs: itching, vertigo, dizziness, tingling in extremities, loss of balance or coordination, slurred speech, temporary blindness, profuse sweating,heart palpitations.
• If Higgs Boson Particle begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
• Higgs Boson Particle may stick to certain types of skin.
• When not in use, Higgs Boson Particle should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Higgs Boson Particle, Large Hadron Collider, and its parent company, CERN, of any and all liability.
• Ingredients of Higgs Boson Particle include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
• Higgs Boson Particle has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is also being dropped by our warplanes on North Korea.
• Do not taunt Higgs Boson Particle.
• Higgs Boson Particle comes with a lifetime guarantee.

A new driver does not add 2 days to delivery. If it's on the truck for delivery it will be dropped off that day. I've never had a package that was marked as out for delivery on the tracking site not arrive that day. I've had them come late in the day (after 6 pm) but never the next day.

If there was a delay, it occurred before arrival at your local distribution center.

Goodwill is in partnership with Dell to recycle old computer equipment: http://dell.com/reconnect. I've donated both working and non-working machines. They'll resell working machines if they can or recycle them.

Perhaps I phrased that wrong. By "inside" I mean behind the quarter panel depositing directly on top the wheel well. Not to the "outside" of the car.