Well ... let's hope he reads Slashdot then.

Or has NYCL on speed-dial. That dude's gangsta.

Wait till you get to Evidence / Trial Advocacy... it's the exact same reason why you object, knowing you're going to get overruled. You can't preserve something for appeal that you never brought up / filed at trial. It may be a shotgun approach, but if you don't use too wide of a spread, it works. (I recommend a modified choke.)

/ By that analogy, Brother Syfert's trying to blow kneecaps off these punk bitches... I hope he lays the smackdown at trial.

The 9/11 hijackers did bring the boxcutters with them. They were allowed to do so because at the time boxcutters were permitted on planes. Why this was the case is beyond me (hadn't anyone ever nicked themselves with a boxcutter and thought, "gee, these things might be dangerous"?) but that's what happened.

Amen, brother. Limewire-induced viruses paid my beer money all through college, and in fact got me laid on more than one occasion. (Yes, I know Slashdotters don't get laid, but I'm not joking!) I found it was quicker and easier to pull a backup-and-reinstall job with most virus infections, rather than trying to fight them. The process takes about two hours, the majority of which is waiting for file copying or OS installation. Combine this with clueless (not to mention broke) frosh women who were surprised the resident geek was unstereotypically cute ... yup. Good times. Cheers to Limewire, savior of geeks everywhere.

And with his mind. Sleight-of-hand works better when she's drunk :^D

Losers do not tell winners what to do.

No, they just whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

Now if such a thing also had wifi for night owls, then you've just gone from "nice" to "awesome". The Acela already has it, no reason it couldn't be scaled up. Wifi + laptop + movie + wine = teh winz0rz

TFA states that "within five minutes of starting the car, the interlock will order the driver to pull over and restart the car. For longer rides, drivers will be required at random times to stop the car and restart."

What if the driver fails to comply? Will the interlock kill the engine? Or will it just keep "ordering the driver to pull over and restart the car"? I can picture a disembodied electronic voice repeating, "STOP! OR I SHALL TELL YOU TO STOP AGAIN!"

The former is probably just as dangerous as someone driving drunk. (No engine = no power steering, no ABS, &c.) The latter is irritating, but comically ineffective, unless it notifies the police as it's doing so.

The law AFAIK is quite clear: Unidentified man, in unidentified car leaps out pointing a gun at you? YES, you are within your rights to SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE.

Disclaimer: IANAL. Even if I was, I am not *your* lawyer. Many States say that if you can retreat (i.e. flee) without undue risk to yourself or others, you are required to do so. Usually you're not required to retreat in your own home, it being your castle and all. (They actually call it the 'Castle Doctrine'.) But on a public road, if someone draws on you, you must attempt to retreat first. If you cannot retreat safely, then you may shoot the malefactor in the face. If you are in Texas, however, there is no duty to retreat. If someone draws on you in Texas, you may stand your ground and start popping caps immediately.

Think about it: most customers would rather discuss their web designs (which you'll be making) in person rather than someone at the end of a phone line, chat room, or email thread.

Good point. Any design gig (not just web design) is equal parts people skills and technical skills. I'd venture that the former is almost more important, since the design ought to be tailored to the client if it's any good.

My friends band were left with an album finished, already pressed, and sitting in warehouse

Sounds like they should be trying to recover their (real, physical) property, not dicking around with the terms of the contract. (Unless, as nomadic points out, there's some funky clause already in the contract permitting such a situation to happen.) Either that or locate said warehouse, drive there, and pick up the CDs. Perhaps hire the actual Mafia to help out, if necessary.

Manual override requires some sort of communication link between Progress and ISS. In order to fly an unmanned craft by wire, there has to be a wire in the first place. The summary says that they "lost a telemetry lock", I'm guessing that's what happened.

Carl Malamud — underrated work shedding sunshine on the sort of things that 'sunshine laws' may make legally accessible, but that often are not practically accessible.

He also sells shells by the seashore. Tongue-twisters tend to torture those who might think about reading the article, but are now too confused to continue. Good Gods, sir, at least read it out loud before hitting "Post".

[...] the constitutional doctrine of state sovereign immunity protects states from prosecution under federal law [...]

I never thought the day would come when I'd be happy to read those words. What with the government using sovereign immunity, among other things, to protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence and use it at trial, I'd forgotten that the doctrine can be used for good as well.