Not only that, but a tiny bit of googling will show you that he is suspected of funneling these phones to Hezbollah. As they have been classified a terrorist organization by the USA, they're going to throw everything they can at him. The precedent set is unfortunate, but when someone is suspected of providing aid to a terrorist group, what do you expect the government to do? Issue a mild warning not to do it again?

Stories like this make me glad I have a fairly common name that is shared with multiple famous people, including a former NFL player, a dead rapper and a famous architect.

We have this crazy concept of certain jobs being exempt from overtime rules. As a general rule, most salaried positions are classified as exempt, most hourly positions are classified as non-exempt (both are considered full time positions with benefits, vacation, etc.).

Thus, if a salaried person works 60 hours a week, s/he still gets the same pay as when working 40 hours per week. IT is a classic example. Longer workdays, 24x7 oncall rotations, weekend work to implement significant changes ... same pay as the normal 40 work weeks.

Wow, put away your xenophobia for 5 minutes to RTFA. He was a naturalized US Citizen who completed his doctorate at UChicago.

Yeah, it's called Diebold.

As of this posting, it is currently 09 NOV 2010, 18:33 GMT. Try again.

As the Wikipedia article mentions, Longyearbyen is the northernmost town of 1000+ permanent residents. Any smaller and I wouldn't call it a town ... more of a settlement, a village or an outpost.

At the beginning, you picked a door. You had a 1% chance of being right. Even after the other 98 doors are opened, it does not change the fact that you STARTED OFF with a 1% chance of being right. The likelihood you were right has become 50/50, but your initial chance was still 1 in 100. The safe bet is to pick the one other unopened door.

There is a big difference between picking a door, then having 98 wrong doors opened and having 98 doors opened, then picking 1 of the remaining 2 doors.

With the Monty Hall show, you started off with a 1/3 chance. That's not terribly unlikely ... over the course of the show's lifetime, switchers should win 2/3 of the time and non-switchers 1/3 of the time. However, YOU only got one shot. Would you switch? I honestly don't know if I would or not.

Agreed ... my employee number is roughly 3.8 times my /. UID.

Uh, no.

Then, every anonymous lawsuit will infringe on your trademark. That way, you can sue lawyers, who are typically rolling in dough!

You gotta know how to talk to admins. Tell them they also can be replaced by a very small shell script.