Or perhaps this type of shit would qualify as an example of the violation of our freedom to take pictures of anything we want.

When the gov't wants to take pictures of you, the claim is always that there is no expecation of privacy in public. But if a private citizen wants to take a picture of something in public that the "powers that be" decide they shouldn't, some poor bastard gets arrested.

Military bases are one thing. When the military is working on a top secret project, they go to great lengths to prevent folks from taking pictures by secluding those projects, or picking remote areas for testing that are inaccesible by the public. This, I understand. You wouldn't want your defenses thwarted by potential enemies before you have a chance to use them. But this whole idea of "we can take pictures of anything we want, but you can't or face the consequences" boils down to a "do as I say and not as I do" mentality that undermines the very fabric of our society and sets up what amounts to nothing less than Orwellian politics.

Perhaps Corey Doctorow wasn't too far off the mark!

<oblig>I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day. . .</oblig>

Perhaps this [pdf] will shed light on why she will most likely be unable to wiggle out of the 1.92M.

Greetings, Overlords.

. . .I just had a Robocop flashback!

Get. . .out. . .of. . .my. . .HEAD!!!

No, that would be "cannabisism", but technically would not apply unless a pot smoker smoked himself--or another pot smoker.

Me too. Especially when someone injects a "won't anybody think of the children" comment into a discussion that is devoid of such remarks.

and while I can't speak for Firefox, at least MSIE 8 will warn you of a possible cross domain phishing attempt.

Firefox with noscript plugin certainly does.

Stop it already!

Isn't that like blaming users for M$'s crappy security implementations? The majority of users I deal with don't have a clue why things are the way they are and just accept whatever is fed to them as the way things are. System tray applets get installed because users think that RealPlayer, QuickTime, et al need that to run.

There are many open source nas implementations available: FreeNAS OpenFiler and NASLite to name a few. I have personnaly set up 3 different NASLite boxes, and is the one I recommend for stability and simplicity (It is not free, but reasonable--around $35US). You will, however need to connect the laptop to a monitor for initial installation and setup.

Just long enough to take your LCD tv, XBox, PS3 and computer. Best to try to ensure that kicking in your door is hard enough they will give up before the cops get there. Trust me, alarms do nothing but annoy the neighbors. My shit is still gone.

So would "D'yer Mak'er" bring them back?

There, fixed it for you!

Apparently, asking the question does.