Well, to satisfy one of your requests. The state of IL requires 120 hours of wheel time for a license and most of the EU is quite a bit more restrictive than that.

Then again, I don't know too many assholes who weave in and out of traffic back and forth in large cars

I'm sure this is in the replies, but I've called the cops on more than a few people that, from behind, were driving dangerously to the point that I was certain they were wasted. Turns out they were texting.

WTB the text interlock device, PST.

Yep, people are great at deductive reasoning while they are drunk ... oh wait --- i see what you did there.

I'll have to apologize for not being clear from the get-go. I'd assumed that the argument being made in the first person made it clear that it was my subjective opinion. Virtually any absolute position has to, IMO, be taken as subjective prose.

If they'd given me video recording (available on 3Gs), multi-tasking (again on the 3Gs), or any of the other productivity increasing features I'd upgrade. As is, I think the cydea option will be the way to go (got my video recording and flash at least).

I fully agree that it is a subjective argument, but Apple has a history of ignoring older hardware even when it is still capable of a feature. I'm thankful that there is an active community (and court decision) that lets me take advantage of these features.

What would you classify as useful features offered in iOS4 for the 3G (not the 3Gs)? ... I don't count 'folders' among them.

Nope, verified on my 3G as an issue (jailbroken and restored), and since there are zero new features (other than poor performance) in iOS 4, they'll have to come up with a more compelling argument for me to patch the thing.

I get the broad strokes - though in the brief readings I've been doin since your original post; wouldn't a treatise or accord be given the full weight of law (in the US)? If not something like the ICC couldn't exist (which does request, on occasion, the extradition of citizens; though not all countries have given up their soverign powers in all respects). I'm still slightly confused as to how the soverign power of a nation to impose laws can affect it's citizens when they are outside of the soverign territory...but I guess that's another issue.

It seems an interesting subject that I will have to educate myself more on. I did find the US Supreme Court Case Yahoo!, Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Les Racisme et L'Antisemitisme 169 F. Supp. 2d 1181 (N.D. Cal. 2001) rather interesting for the discussion on the comity of nations and the rare instances that it would be ignored.

Anyhow, thanks for providing real value to a thread (rare on /. sometimes) and correcting my misinterpretation on border crossing.

Interesting...I'd actually like to read some of the relevant court cases if you have them handy. I travel abroad fairly extensively and always operated under the assumption that before being allowed into a country I was covered by international law (or in the case of the EU, the EU constitution) ... but not necessarily offered full protection under the individual country's constitution.

I do remember a while back this coming up on /. regarding border protection confiscating laptops ... whatever was the legal fallout from that since that seemed to be a clear-cut violation of the due process clause?

At the border, and before you cross through customs - you are not yet in the US

2X Dell 30" monitors side by side ... unbeatable setup IMO. I tried 3 of them, but that just covers too much horizontal space.

A post reply to myself. This is a simple example - you could require each keypair to have differing character types for example. It just isn't something that I implemented for this purpose.

Feel free. I'm just glad to be putting something back to the community. I have versions in C# and CFScript which I'll get out there at some point. I've been somewhat remiss in rebuilding the site since it was defaced by the "Azerbajian Attacker".

I've reposted the code back on my site at http://www.levii.com/Code/php/cipher.php

If you'd like to credit the source, I'd certainly appreciate it ... but it is unnecessary and I just post this as a concept and idea that I've implemented before. It operates 'almost' like a form of two factor identification as it requires your unique card and passphrase to generate a "strong" password. I find it easier to have employees change passwords when they have a somewhat secure method to cipher a phrase they are comfortable with. We of course ask they don't use weak key-phrases like "work", but as long as the quasi-salt of the keycard is unique it should still be secure.

I've posted this as a potential answer on /. before though the original page on my site is no longer available. It's also been discussed here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/secret_question.html (find cipher.php) I found my old page on the wayback machine...perhaps I'll move it back where it goes http://web.archive.org/web/20060715223129/http://levii.com/cipher.php I'd appreciate input on the method. You have your random card, your own ez phrase and you end up with properly complex passwords. I've implemented this in numerous business environements, and people seem very happy with the result. Every 60 days they choose a new ez passprase and/or get a new dynamically generated card.

IT is awefully broad to be summed up as "Installing windows and reloading printers". Core infrastructure, information security, DBAs, BI specialists, etc. are all fully within the scope of IT and have great career outlook [and are knowledge industrues...so not blue collar].

Really? That crap again....

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories

I could find plenty more confirmations for you.