when you pry it from my cold dead hands!"

> Ok, this is many things but it is not a troll. Must we go through this every time a new set of idiots starts to get mod points?

You have cleverly replied to yourself as AC complaining of the moderation... then replied to your AC reply. Nicely done!

And for the record, I agree wholeheartedly with all of your posts... a story about petrified wood an the first comment referencing hot grits gets modded troll!? What is /. coming to...

... and THAT is why the venerable VW bus will always be known in my circle as a "Terrorist Van".

MOD PARENT UP! So true...

RTFA, are you crazy!?

(My bad...)

I'm confused. Living "off the grid" means NOT using a credit card. By my definition anyway...

This is about as interesting and informative as everything else being posted to Twitter!!
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/08/botnet_arbor.jpg
:D

Seriously. If their target market is English speakers and the people doing the translating don't speak English as their primary language... dude. Seriously. Nevermind the privacy issues here...

Flamebait!? Mod must be a perl programmer that got his butt hurt. WTF

php: " Tastes great! "
python: " Less filling! "
perl: " $_=_($_);$_+=$_; "

Translation for all you n00bs:

All your USB drive are belong to us!

That's actually not a bad idea! Only problem, if you want to call it that, is when we go to electric / efficient hybrid cars. Then what? If I have an electric car for example, I pay nothing and you pay for everything. If everyone has an electric car, nothing gets paid for. A more realistic approach would be for state motor vehicle departments to check the cars mileage once a year. Based on that mileage, your taxes are computed and the info is sent to your insurance company who charges you accordingly.

There are rumors out there that Nagra3 has already been hacked, though not confirmed to my knowledge. Back in the Nagra2 days, N2 had been hacked for years and it was a boon for pirates. Dish recently switched all it's channels to Nagra3 and pretty much overnight, all the pirates TV's went blank. Currently, the only 'solution' that exists for the pirates is via card sharing schemes where an actual subscriber(s) shares their card keys via an Internet Key Sharing (IKS) service. Though not technically a hack, IKS allows for the same capability. And so the cat and mouse continues.... Don't ask me how I know all this.

In that case, I motion then that the people of Phoenix be the first to colonize Venus... seriously, you all will feel right at home!

Sorry mate, "flagged for removal." Anybody still have this in their cache??