Y'know, you might just be right about WTC even though I suspect you don't know it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/11/fbi-wu-tang-clan-ol-dirty-bastard

According to these papers, Ol' Dirty Bastard was arrested more than 15 times on charges that ranged from resisting arrest to injuring a child, as well as assault, the attempted murder of a police officer, refusing to pay child support and the illegal possession of body armour. It connects him with the Bloods gang and at least two murders, but also describes occasions that ODB was robbed at gunpoint in his own home. "There was an indication that the [thieves] were current or former [music] industry insiders who had banded together to commit the robberies," an officer explained.

I'm currently (for the last several years) paying $40/month for 7Mbps "naked" ADSL from Verizon in NYC.

When I asked for something similar at another location they said that standalone DSL was no longer available and that I should get a voice phone line plus 1Mbps DSL for $50/month. I went with Clear instead (so far so good).

Right you are!

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.

In the US, it depends on the jurisdiction:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_to_be_a_lawyer_before_becoming_a_judge

and

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=67949

There's a "detail" link or something like that on that screen to show the actual device names (e.g. "/dev/sda"). It took a bit of wondering but I found it because I really really wanted to :-)

And I am absolutely certain that if you should be accused falsely/by accident, then someone will refund your money and compensate your time spent defending yourself.

Sample size of 1: I defended myself in a lawsuit recently, or rather my lawyer defended me. The plaintiff claimed to have spent a little less than 1/2 of what I did on legal fees, yet their lawyer in more than two years produced absolutely nothing of value towards their case and they were presented with all of the evidence that they were wrong within the first month of their complaint.

I won the case and was awarded legal fees. The judge, however, awarded me only about 2/3 of my legal fees because she said that was "about what the case was worth" (despite the other side producing nothing on nearly the same amount .. or so they claimed .. perhaps they claimed less than they actually spent to lower the judge's sense of fair costs for my reimbursement).

That's part of the point of SLAPP lawsuits -- even if you win, you lose.

According to the linked article, the guy just wanted iPhones. In case you missed it, I bolded the specific part where it states that he said that.

In one incident, the suspect followed a student into the lobby of a brownstone on West 114th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue on Nov. 15, pulled a gun and demanded the student's iPhone.

The frightened student immediately took out his phone and handed it over. But it was a BlackBerry.

The thief looked at it and immediately handed it back.

"I want iPhones," he snarled, according to a source.

I bet you think you're joking, eh?

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20111209/manhattan/iphone-mugger-near-columbia-doesnt-want-your-blackberry

I love mutt and hate thunderbird (especially over VPN - I spent one hour last week sending one email reply because of slooooow screen redraws).

But at work I'm required to use CentOS 5 and PKI for email encryption, and the CentOS 5 mutt package doesn't support that. Any suggestions other than changing jobs would be appreciated.

I am quoting (below) from the link you provided; I have added italics to indicate the quoted text and boldface to emphasize some of it.

One may wonder: where did this false interpretation originate? Who is responsible for the translation that has sparked such worldwide controversy? The answer is surprising.

The inflammatory "wiped off the map" quote was first disseminated not by Iran's enemies, but by Iran itself. The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm, used this phrasing in the English version of some of their news releases covering the World Without Zionism conference. International media including the BBC, Al Jazeera, Time magazine and countless others picked up the IRNA quote and made headlines out of it without verifying its accuracy, and rarely referring to the source. Iran's Foreign Minister soon attempted to clarify the statement, but the quote had a life of its own. Though the IRNA wording was inaccurate and misleading, the media assumed it was true, and besides, it made great copy.

And a little further down in the article:

The inconsistency of the IRNA's translation should be evidence enough of the unreliability of the source, particularly when transcribing their news from Farsi into the English language.

So we have The Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official propaganda arm providing an "unreliable" translation of Ahmadinejad's quote of a statement formerly made by Khomeini. Right.

And we are to therefore conclude that "western media" is at fault for reporting this translated text to the rest of the world? Right.

Therefore I conclude:

In Iran we don't have unreliable translations like in your country. :-)

Apparently, stuff imported from The Northern Mariana Islands qualifies for a "Made in USA" label even though there are reports that the stuff actually comes from China. There's even a catchy name for this game: The Saipan Scam

But his reference to "lighter heads" for readonly and his use of the term "DVDrom", suggest that a DVDRW is not what he was recommending.

I think he's probably talking about the Microsoft Technet subscription service; it costs about $200/year and has downloadable ISOs for multiple versions of their various OSes and also some application software.

What misuse of gov't time & resources are you talking about?

He installed the software himself on his kid's loaner notebook to keep track of his kid's activity (you see, the FBI guy is also some kid's daddy, and he wants to know in case somebody solicits his kid in a chatroom).

Then he asked a buddy at work if he knew how to remove the software before returning the notebook to the school; apparently Joe didn't know, so he brought it to a local computer repair shop and asked them to do it for (his own) cash. Apparently they didn't remove this software either.

Then Mr. School Principal went looking for kiddie porn using the recently returned school loaner notebook that unfortunately still had that spyware installed on it.

Don't you just hate it when things go sour like that and a school principal gets busted browsing for kiddie porn? I know I do.

Apparently you can pass the "nousb" flag to the kernel at boot time (if you think of it) to avoid wiping your DBAN flash drive when you use "autonuke" (assuming, of course, that you're not trying to nuke some other USB-connected drives).