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(You know the traffic's shit when you can play cricket on the 3 lane each way freeway.)

As far as Apple is aware, I'm Steve Jobs.

Instead of just teaching the essentials in the early years and allowing them to choose their classes in high school, they force you to take classes which have nothing to do with your desired profession.

So you know *at age 16* what you want to do for the rest of your life? Congratulations! I'd suggest a large number of people here have changed professions/desires at least once since that age, and it's increasingly rare to stick with one basic job for life. Being multi-skilled makes changing paths much easier.

"A problem with books of collaborations such as this is that they often lack a consistent stream of thought."
A problem with this reviews is it lacks a consistent stream of thought. I know that this is /., but I really have trouble taking a review seriously when the author can't string two sentences together without my having to reread due to a change in tense or subject. I'm certainly not going to buy a $180 book on the word of a review like this.

E*x*presso?!?! Get out!
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Two theories, now let's sit back and see who's right

No theories, but two hypotheses. One of which is actually based on modelling and thought, the other on intuition that the Universe is a big place.

You may be right, but because the Universe is such a big place I *don't* think it's likely to be broken soon, since it's bloody hard to look around. The Tarantula Nebula is nice because it's recent, dense and relatively close, which means this could be found. Of course, they're all relative terms. We've been looking at the Tarantula Nebula for at least 250 years, and we've only found this one now...

YYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!

But a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it was discovered that sloppiness around exhaust ports on weapons platforms could lead to unanticipated attack vectors. Obviously the person in charge chose to learn from this mistake, although it wasn't widely known until 1977!

Your comments about unlocking and tethering aren't limitations of the iphone. They're limitations of the customisations your carrier has put on them (yes, I'm aware that in the US if you want an iphone not on AT&T you're SOL). I recently went to Europe from Australia. I phoned my carrier the day before I left asking for my phone to be unlocked, and was guided through the procedure (and SMSd the instructions as a backup!). I bought a prepaid SIM, synced with my laptop, set up the appropriate APN for the carrier, and I was away.

I also have USB and cable tethering available. Don't whinge about the iphone when it's AT&T being arseholes.

"Superseded" normally implies improvements. While Google/Deja provide a long term archive and searching support, they're nothing like as useful as a dedicated client to a newsgroup server for actually taking part in discussions. It's similar to the reason people use mail clients rather than just Gmail: you have more control over how you interact with others.

Perhaps you should go back to the grandparent and the parent, and read Watts' own words. He states that he has no problem with the trial, judge, defense, prosecutor, jury or even the guards conduct in court. It's the law itself in this case, which says that if you don't immediately comply with a command you are guilty of assaulting a police officer. That's what he's been convicted of, and although not happy he claims he will abide by the court's decision. It might be interesting to grab the transcript. Watts claims that the jury asked if non-compliance was sufficient to convict. That sounds to me like they weren't entirely happy about having to find him guilty, but followed the law as written. Non-compliance in this case is asking "what's the problem?", instead of immediately lying down after being hit in the face. I understand that there is video evidence of this, but until the FOIA request from the media is resubmitted and the footage obtained, that'll be something only those directly involved can comment on.

There was a bit further down that said conversion to electricity was 90-100% of absorption. That means a worst case efficiency of 77% of incident sunlight, which is still a staggering improvement over standard cells. I for one welcome our new silicon-wire overlords.

Nope. That's *in-school*, keeping an eye on what the kids are doing. Other than not being quite so obvious, it's no different to the class teacher observing (and probably about as obvious to the kids who aren't paying attention). There's a freakin' world of difference between a classroom environment and webcam monitoring in a student's bedroom, or off the school premises entirely. I have no problem with my mail being monitored by my employer, or them auditing the use of their equipment on their network. As soon as it's in private premises the right to monitor the computer is gone - that's the price *they* pay for my using it on my time. The grey area is in stuff that's on the PC when it comes back on to their network - logs, pictures, etc. There's a chance that's where the photo in question came from, but my gut feel is that's not the story here.

Slashdot people's cat porn. Now I'm horrified. And depressed.