I agree, our BES server has been pretty reliable for the most part, though it is a resource hog. Their support has always been top notch the few times I've needed it over the years. They certainly provide better software and support than FedEx, UPS and the other carriers do, their stuff is garbage loaded with legacy cruft and the support is average at best. I have job set up to automatically do an iisreset three times a day on our Progistics (UPS) server to keep that shoddy application going, this issue has persisted for years over 3 major upgrades, their support has no insight beyond the iisreset.

We only have a handfull of BB users left, they all will be switching to iPhones when their contracts are up though, all but two are welcoming the change. The two resistant to change are only concerned about the lack of physical keys, they aren't attached to the BB OS functionality.

Thank you Cap'n Obvious, I'll be sure to pack my SPF2000 the next time Gamma Rays are in the forecast. That is, assuming California hasn't determined that Zinc Oxide caused cancer in lab animals and subsequently banned sunscreen by then.

I take this shit with a grain of salt, practically EVERYTHING in excess can harm you. Expose yourself to too much sun, you burn or get skin cancer. Drink too much water, die of electrolytic shock. Breathe too much concentrated oxygen, suffer from hyperoxia. Consume too much caffeine, suffer from caffeine overdose. Consuming too much of any food items can be toxic, or health averse at least.

Common sense folks, everything in moderation. I know that's hard for people to understand these days, but why the fuck are we wasting tax money creating a nanny state to tell us something that every other (undomesticated) animal on the planet has already evolved enough to figure out? We can either thrust ourselves back to the stone-ages to protect ourselves from all these modern refined foods, CO2 and cancer spewing machines, or we can continue to advance and find ways to deal with it.

Your other point is right on target, too - old locomotives are often rebuilt and reused, which is probably better for the environment than building a new one would be, even if the new one is more fuel efficient or runs cleaner.

In people's zeal for going green by cutting emissions, I think they often overlook the fact that decommissioning (recycling) an old vehicle, or piece of outdoor power equipment and manufacturing a replacement for it, is likely a net loss for the environment. It consumes a large amount of energy and resources to do so.

Why haven't I ever seen a study done on this? Oh, probably because there's a whole market (and political party) around guilting certain consumers into buying these products.

Hmm, I could be wrong, but I would think per person, prison is much cheaper than gov't funded housing, food cards (to buy whatever they want) and medicaid. Or, it sure as hell SHOULD be. Institutionalized living should be way more efficient and cost effective if it's done properly, I realize that's not necessarily the case in many prisions in the US.

Realistically, a lot of drug abusers are self-medicating and should probably be in mental institutions, not prison.

Yeah, except for the part where you have strung out drug addicts that refuse to get a job or do anything remotely productive for society. Instead, they expect to sit on their asses and collect government assistance, maybe have some more children to increase their earnings. Or worse, they steal everything they can get their hands on to fund their addictions.

I realize that this isn't the case for functioning addicts, or all recreational drug users, but society definitely doesn't need any more of the former kind of addicts I mentioned above, and there will be more of them if these substances are easy for everyone to obtain. Explain how we deal with those problems once we open the floodgates of drugs to everyone? Don't tell me that they'll suddenly change their ways because their drugs suddenly become more affordable (doubtful when you look at how the prescription drug industry operates), because we all know how rational these types of people are with budgets and how they'd allocate additional income.

Apple operates under the ASPL which is similar to the BSD family of licenses, while they do release some of their source code, they are not legally obligated to release all of their source code. Apple's ASPL license is approved by the OSI and the Free Software Foundation for whatever that's worth.

If you're so bent out of shape about it, just fork CUPS and continue to maintain the components that Apple is deprecating in their own system. That's the whole point of Open Source Software.

If you think Apple's products are overpriced, that's fine, Capitalism allows you to continue to voice your opinion by not buying their products. You could opt to buy Microsoft's products, which are completely proprietary, more expensive and closed source by the way.

Yeah, except every language creator out there wants to collect royalties on their proprietary solution, so every printer manufacturer out there wants to create their own proprietary PDL... and we're back at the same problem we have with print drivers.

PostScript
PCL
HP-GL
MS XPS
Ricoh RPCS
Kyocera KPDL
Epson ESC/P
The list goes on...

Believe it or not, there ARE actually printers that accept direct PDF input...

Ricoh: Printing a PDF File Directly

Kyocera: PDF Direct Printing

...not that I would ever recommend doing so, in my experience you can easily choke a PostScript printer just by sending it a document with some malformed placed EPS's, I can't imagine sending random PDF's will work more reliably. In fact, to do a firmware update on most PostScript printers that I've seen, you simply cat a binary executable to the print queue and it gladly executes the unsigned code within, this seems safe, doesn't it? This is the stupid shit that printer vendors have been working on, you know, instead of actually improving (unifying) their print drivers and firmware.

I like the table describing possible failure causes at the bottom, most of them are officials accusing the US of directly or indirectly causing the satellite's failure. Conspiracy theories alive and well.

Remove the website - which must be hosted *somewhere* and the spam ceases to be profitable.

Probably because zombie machines on the botnet are the ones hosting the website(s).

As far as type 2 diabetes goes, it is the result of chronically overeating. It is like continuing to pump gas into your car long after the tank is filled.

LOL... Wow, worst car analogy ever.

Most of the schools around here have Smartboards now... and the average kids that are graduating from said schools around here are still dumb as shit, so much for Smartboards.

Right, and... where that is true if US states are sovereign, it's likewise true with sovereign world states.

Are you actually comparing moving your family to another state in the US, to moving your family to another country?

This is not appealing. Human rights shouldn't be subject to referendum.

I think we both agree on that, but the fact is that there are large groups of people all over this country that disagree and it's a constant struggle that takes resources and attention from way more important issues. The federal government has no business deciding either way, what's best for every single state.

I think you and I both know that's not how the energy market works. You're going to have skyrocketing energy prices in the midwest (just as we do on the coast) regardless of policy.

Due to ever increasing demand, yes, but that wasn't my point. For large parts of the US, (unreliable) wind and solar energy is not even remotely feasible and the transmission technology to efficiently distribute renewable energy from other distant places, does not currently exist. The EPA's ridiculous mandates are just about ready to hit all of these people in the wallet and I'm fairly certain a lot of them aren't even informed enough to know it's coming. Jobs will be lost at these power plants, and new potential jobs in "green energy" mean fuckall for people hundreds or thousands of miles from areas where these jobs exist. Nuclear power would've been a possible solution, but that's not even on the table after what happened to the poorly designed reactors in Japan.

Poor people already can't make ends meet as it is, how the fuck are they going to afford a sudden 30% jump in energy costs? Guess what they will start doing to offset their higher heating bills? They'll be firing up wood burning stoves and pellet stoves (oh and theft will go up too). Tell me, how does that ultimately help air quality?

Meanwhile, China and other 3rd world countries are spewing out pollution like crazy, to make cheap stuff for us; and we're expected to just pick up the slack. Why even bother? It's a shell game.