I was going to moderate this comment as funny, but then I realized, hey, I'm a sys-admin...

As far as a high-jacked airliner you do know that none of them have been shot down

This one was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Actually, there's a semi-good reason for it. The UN Charter expressly forbids war, except in the case of self defense. So we conveniently no longer "declare war" when we go to war, we simply have Congress "authorize the use of force." Semantics, but then again, the government has nullified most of the Constitution that way.

Bah, no way, he should try MINE! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005F7XZ82

It has all those problems, but it also has a bunch of footnotes making fun of it the whole way through!

Nobody voted for Ford for VP either. He was appointed VP by Nixon after Agnew resigned. So yeah, nobody voted for Ford for President.

That was "true" only before E = mc^2

In other words, in a purely Newtonian world, massless particles would travel at "infinite" velocity. In an Einsteinian world, they travel at the maximum possible velocity.

Ah yes, religion! Religion will save us! The same way it's always saved us in the past!

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He hates that some apps/protocols use it as a security measure, by doing a reverse lookup on the IP they were just given and trying to match that to the host name they were given. That means he has to pay attention to whether or not Windows is maintaining that info correctly, and as I've said in other replies, it often doesn't if you've ever reused an IP or hostname.

Yeah, it creates them just fine. It just doesn't seem to ever want to keep that info up to date if you change hostnames or reuse IP addresses. Like I said in another reply, I'm not a Windows guy, so I haven't any clue why it doesn't seem to like to clean up after itself. It works great as long as you never delete a host and try to reuse its IP or hostname, then it has issues.

Lucky for him, Windows will keep reverse DNS reasonably well maintained (provided you're using a Windows DNS server) until you decommission a host and reuse a host name or IP address. Then it seems to have huge issues getting things cleaned up. I haven't any idea why because I try to stay away from it.

The windows admin where I work hates reverse DNS. He thinks it's stupid and refuses to keep it updated. So... if there are more people like him out there, you might have issues getting email from them.

He stopped being a citizen because he merely said he renounced his citizenship? That is not how you lose US citizenship.

Actually, that's exactly how you do it. Except you have to do it in front of a US Consular, and there's a lot of paperwork to fill out too. So yeah, not exactly the same.

For what? The point of a loss leader is to get people into your store, so maybe they'll buy something else while they're there. HP doesn't own any stores except their online one, and how many people actually buy direct from HP instead of from some other mass retailer?

The only other way this would make sense would be an analogy to how Microsoft sells the Xbox at a loss and expects to make up the difference on the games. What sort of applications is HP hoping you'll buy for your tablet that will let them make up the loss they took selling the device to you??

WTF is this silly notion people have that protests require permits??

The first amendment specifically enshrines the right of assembly. That's the only permit any US citizen needs. Any other requirement is by definition unconstitutional.