For a networking or storage appliance, it should get on the network using stateless autoconfiguration.

Hey, man, you've given yourself away as being from the future.

pfSense is a good example of how to do an interface well for network configuration. I'm not sure that defining a network topology in a directory server would be easier or better.

Do you mean that in most countries, if you take a picture of a crowded beach, you'd need six thousand model releases to be legal?

'Cause that doesn't sound sane. Not that most regulations are.

and apparently there's nothing more newsworthy coming across the firehose. I suppose we should take this as a sign that many people have stopped contribuitng to /. Perhaps they're over at SoylentNews now.

So we learned nothing from the 2001 US bombardment and invasion of Saudi Arabia then?

Either Ahmadinejad or Assad are beind this one. It doesn't matter that Ahmadinejad is out of power - he wanted to nuke Israel (it doesn't matter if that was a mistranslation). Assad just needs a good bombing anyway (it doesn't matter how he's going to price his oil).

'Cause Blackwater got BILLS TO PAY (it doesn't amtter that Blackwater changed its name to Xe and then to Academi to cover its tracks). And we've got bombs on the shelf that are getting close to their expiration date! Plus: jobs!

Hey, maybe one of the eds just randomly pushed a journal post to the front page.

Wow. That's a load of bullshit.

Actually, that's quote from Moses, mumbling under his breath, as he was coming down from Mt Sinai.

I've never demanded anyone start a real war for Cersei's fictional c***.

That makes one of us.

"Listening to sermons and reading religious works like the Bible may also invoke a cognitive benefit. "You're exercising your higher cortical function, thinking about complex concepts that require some imagination,"

I've got a book by Isaac Newton called, "Optiks" that will give you all of that, without making you want to go out and kill non-believers.

Clearly, religion is the key to happiness:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/i...

http://media.dumpert.nl/foto/4...

It's also great if you have a mother-in-law on the other side of the world. The cost per-minute for calls from phone to phone (she just cannot seem to figure out Skype) is as good as any provider.

My wife talks for an hour and it's just a few cents. Or at least that's how it seems. Plus, we can do all kinds of other tricks with voice to text and other things.

I was about to get really pissed if this story was about Google pulling the Voice service.

Is that you? To reiterate another poster's comment, this is just some dude's blog entry.

Seriously? WTF with the headline, Timothy? Is /. Into sensationalist, eye-grabbing headlines now? How about maybe only showing comments 5 at a time while you're at it? That should garner some ad revenue. That title is *very* misleading.

That's not the point. The point is that the reason the loans were available to them at all was the government's decision to involve itself in the marketplace.

The bastards now are so full of themselves that they don't even pretend anymore.

Well, that is part of it - to show you what's there place and your place. Like at the airport, nobody expects to find a bomb in the keester of a midwest sales manager, but he's gonna get the anal probe so that he knows just who's in charge. It's worse than most people would treat a dog, really.

What could possibly go wrong?

Pardon me. For the sake of accuracy, I will amend the third sentence above. It should have read:

"... the rates are required by law to be based on the probability of that disaster occurring to you, and the cost of treatment."

And even that should probably say "were required" rather than "are required", because since Obamacare was passed, insurance isn't really insurance anymore.