The captions on a local new program usually spell his name "O'Bama". Cracks me up every time.

Now I've got "Bjorn under a bad sign" stuck in my head. Thanks....

I've seen these Terrestrial Reclamation Energy Exfoliates too! I hear that when they are fully charged, you can make all sorts of neat stuff out of them chairs, tables, houses...

I know what you are getting at, I just couldn't resist....

It's something about how they smell

The vultures or the naughty bits?

IBM, UBM we all BM for IBM!

Couldn't resist.....

Data rates for BPL (Broadband over Power Line) is about 3Mb/s. This is too slow to sell it as a DSL competitor, but fine for AMI data. The largest amount of data they would need to send would be during a firmware upgrade which could be from 50MB-200MB, so 3Mb/s should be sufficient and is similar to other data methods. PLC (Power Line Carrier) was on-par with modem speeds (which PGE tired this), and may be what they are referring to.

The common reason for not using BPL is that you need to "hop" over the transformers, and the equipment for this is expensive and interferes with HAM radios and other wireless traffic.

I think you are thinking of Advanced Metering (AMI). Smart Grid is the integration of Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Retail, and Consumer technologies.

You are correct, but if you are under arrest it is reasonably foreseeable that there will be a proceeding. In some cases, someone saying "I'll sue you " counts.

Now if you had the data elsewhere, and you wiped the the device, you would be safe because you are not destroying the evidence. This is best for you as a defendant as they need to make the case to a hopefully independent judge that the data is related to what you were arrested for. At this point, the prosecutor would have to know how the data is related, and can't just ask for "all data that was on the phone that shows you are guilty of X", and they can't ask for anything not related to what you are charged with. (Wikipedia's US v. Hubbell article has a good example of what they can ask for.)

Your state law may vary, and arguing constitutional law to a cop probably won't help.

Yup, that sounds like good, old fashion spoliation of evidence.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

Yes, the English did this in Hong Kong a year or two before handing the island over to the PRC. The building was constructed elsewhere as bunch of "bricks" and then shipped in and assembled.

I think this may have more to it than the KJ translation. I believe in greek it would be DCLXVI, or 500+100+50+10+5+1 which to me looks like a countdown timer or a bunch of numbers in descending order.

I am no bible scholar, so this is just my observation

Try this link instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_v._United_States

Ok, so they will separate your data from everyone else's, but how do you know they aren't mining your data and storing the index on another machines? Remember, Google is an advertising company first. All of the other products like Postini, gDocs, etc are there just to give them more data to mine.

Your contract may state that they are not allowed to mine or even store your filtered data, but how would you ever know? Good luck executing an eDiscovery search on largest collector of data in the world. I'm sure the attorney's would love it though.

It's really remarkable, isn't it? Does Google sell it's spam filter by any chance?

I think it is called Postini.