Everybody poses a threat to everybody else's privacy... the arriving panopticon pretty much means an end to privacy IMHO. Wrote a blurb about this not unrecently: Redefining Privacy in the Panopticon.

That game totally got me into hacking at the tender age of 8! I *needed* to know how they made the computer shout "Ghostbusters!" when you caught a ghost and "He slimed me!" when you failed. A few months later I got a magazine with code that showed you how - sampling from the built in tape. The results were up to three seconds of shitty audio that would all but fill the 128kb of RAM.

Bailout priorities and Roads and bridges are the same option - money will be diverted from shoring up Wall Street idiots who invested in loans for the jobless to make work for the latter so they can pay back the former.

If you were to look closely enough at it the spoon would begin to pixelate. It is not that there is no spoon so much as the substrate on which the spoon exists is finite.

Kneel before iZOD!

PJ takes one week off, and everybody moves back to Slashdot.

That argument has surely got no chance of flying. The OSX splash screen says that Apple own the copyrights on the software as does the pretty box the disks come in and all you need to assert copyright ownership is a mark on the product that says so.

That restricting OSX to apple approved hardware is anti-competitive might have a chance but even with a little hat that first snowball ain't gonna last long.

Excellent point. So if you find any website you dislike, anywhere in the world, as long as it might violate a Kentucky state law you can get it's domain name pwnd by the court.

Shudder. I hope this gets overturned soon.