I'm at work so I can't play with it right now, but does it have all the standard UNIX utilities? If it does, then it might be something I would not mind playing with.

Rather, you're probably not going to be liable if you injure the buglar with a bear trap ... provided that bear traps are legal in your area, even when not actively hunting for bears. Bad form to respond to my own post, I know. So sue me. Figuratively speaking, of course.

The legality of drugs has nothing to do with safety, it never really has.

So it's a nicotine absorption vaccine. Hence the name NicVax. They're preventing absorption, which has the beneficial side effect of helping with addiction.

I believe the bricking is the difference. Does Google deliberately brick G1's at T-Mobile's behest to keep them from going to the competition?

The very concept of "Greenhouse Gas" is a hypothetical, not a principle. It has a number of flaws in the basic experimental basis on which the hypothesis rests. The observations in these experiments were conducted on gasses under pressure. Surely, you remember the simple P = nRT/V Pressure Volume Temperature stuff from Physics 101?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/slideshow/25115/retesting_the_greenhouse_gas_theory.html?cat=58

While I've never seen anything like celebrating an opponent's death, in my social science experience, I've witnessed rampant conclusion-driven methodology.

"Do you think that because we included XYZ in our sampling that it's clouding the results?"

"Don't tell me what the data say; I know what's really happening and the data are wrong!"

etc.

The way science is funded is not amenable to honest science. If the track you're leading dries up, switching tracks isn't really an option because all the other tracks have people leading them already.

Which has happened already, look at the Acknowledgments section of say MS09-058.

"(even though it took a while)"

Um. The comment on the bug report which kicked all this off - "Seems to work: but why am I not getting a root password prompt?" - is dated 2009-11-18 07:47:19 EDT. The email announcing that the policy will be tightened is dated Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:29:19 (again ET). That's a response time of 37 hours, 42 minutes, by my count. I think you'd find that's...really quite fast. :)

if you look at iptables you can in fact block outbound connections as well. So yes you can lock down all ports/addresses the machine has no business talking on/too.

Wow, this is a big [citation needed], and if it’s true, were they suitably bitch-slapped for it?

That might be true, but I think you give the NSA too much credit for being nefarious.

Of course, the Chinese language pack would be a great place to stick a backdoor. My other thought is that Microsoft already has a huge backdoor into any system running automatic updates. It wouldn't be hard to "customize" the WSUS servers to provide a particular patch to one specific computer.

The problem is not with the extension model. It is with the Firefox implementation of the extension model. If done properly, the browser would not be exposing an API to the plugin that is capable of doing naughty things, nor would it be exposing an API for a plugin to alter another plugin. You build a clear but limited line of communication on established browser events, but everything else is concealed from the plugin.

Have you played the game yet? An ambulance shows up at the end that you all jump into. Just pull the American's body out of that and drop it at the scene. You are also in street clothes playing a covert agent. There is no way to prove the person was an American soldier from the remains alone.

If you owe the bank $100,000 they own you, but if you owe the bank $1,000,000,000,000 you own them.

China's fate is just as wrapped up in the value of that debt as our own is.