(Sorry about the quotes, apparently Safari on the iPad does this automatically.)

... whose name is on the âoeno fly listâ, with no idea why.

I was able to find a TV without any network connectivity at Wal-Mart a few months ago, but it wasn't easy. The employee seemed confused as to why anybody would want such a thing in the first place, but when I started to walk away, she walked me over to the one set of TVs down at the very end which didn't have any connectivity at all. The biggest of these was a 55-inch (Sanyo FW55D25F-B), which is about as big as I was looking for, so that's what I have in the living room now.

Somebody else in the store at the time overheard the conversation, and told me about an article he had read about TVs which were so "smart" that they would jump on any non-secured wifi they could find, when they didn't have (or couldn't connect to) a configured network.

I wish I could say that my friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart employee got a bit of an education from us that evening, but it was fairly obvious she didn't really care one way or the other...

I find it odd that a web page containing a list of ISPs who promise to protect their customers' privacy, is hosted on blogger.com, which is owned by Google, who has a vested interest in NOT protecting peoples' privacy. (You can't even view the page without allowing your browser to run Javascript from three different Google domains.)

"...the graphical and informational figures flunk every Tufte test, which is unfortunate" -- Says so much about the author of the post. .06% increase in a data set of this size is compelling? It stinks when the data doesn't fit one's preconceived notions.That's one of the the beauties of science and why healthy scepticism is required.

AGW that old saw wielded by people that are looking for funding or power or both. Sadly science gets lost with this type of hysteria and our planet's history is cherry picked depending which side of the religious argument you inhabit. (MCO anyone, or LIA)?

If everyone stopped farting tomorrow and we cut our emissions by 50% we'd barely move the needle based on peer reviewed climate models (all of them). There would be a massive world wide depression and you could expect food shortages but you wouldn't change the climate much. So instead of screaming about weapons of mass destruction, perhaps folks should start looking at the cost of mitigating potential issues created by a warmer earth. The Dutch have done a great job with dealing with a rising sea over the last 2500 years.

Looking at solutions that work instead of creating bigger problems would be a healthy start to a constructive debate. It would also be a nice change from the demagoguery.

Blocking content at the router/firewall is the best place to block it inside your network. Otherwise you're dealing with keeping several machines up to date. As IT infrastructure becomes more diverse (Mac, Windows Flavors, Guests etc) keeping individual machines updated will be harder than a centralize point. Another option is to force users to utilize a specifc DNS server (ie http://www.opendns.com/business-security/). Then all you do is block DNS traffic destined for any other DNS servers.

I'd avoid the $50 walmart router and look at some stand alone firewall/routers with good filtering options: IPCop (http://ipcop.org/) + URLFILTER (http://www.urlfilter.net/) or Cop+ (http://home.earthlink.net/~copplus/) or UnTangle (https://www.untangle.com/store/lite-package.html)

Will it slow down your connection? It can if you do not use fast enough equipment, but in general the price of CPU cycles isn't an issue when using PC based solutions.

AH BEST. The original paper was rejected by the journal JGR Atmospheres but finally they have passed "peer review". The BRAND NEW heretofore unheard of Journal Geoinformatics and Geostatistics will now feature the BEST paper. Yes ladies and gentlemen, issue 1 volume 1 will have this study as its centrepiece.

In other earth shattering news - NOAA has discovered that the further away from the structures you put the thermometer, the recorded night time temperatures are colder. This is known as the "theory of duh" in physics circles, but required experimental verification by climate scientists.

There is still much science to be done and much politics to extricate from climate science

Bluetooth is a good option, also look at RFID. There are RFID kits that are windows compatible. Check it out and hopefully this will help get you started as to some of the possibilities. http://www.trossenrobotics.com/p/RFID-experimenters-kit.aspx?feed=Froogle -cluge

Actually, I've been a digital-only subscriber for some time. The downloads are DRM-free PDF files that I can read, and search, on several devices running a variety of platforms, including Linux (of course), Mac OSX, and iPad. Plus the download area has old issues going back several years (I want to say 2004 but wouldn't swear to it) and I'm able to download all of those as well. Just the thing when I get a new project and need to look up something I vaguely remember seeing in a past issue, but don't know which issue had it.

It's like ebooks, especially the O'Reilly books... it's much easier to carry around an iPad with 300+ EPUB and PDF files than trying to guess which ones I might need on any given day, or even worse trying to carry all of them with me.

I never really got much out of LinkedIn anyway, so when I read about this change, I just cancelled my account. One less thing to deal with.

Now we'll see if they spend the next year harrassing me to come back...

DigitalOne's chief executive, Sergej Ostroumow, said: "This problem is caused by the FBI, not our company. In the night FBI has taken 3 enclosures with equipment plugged into them, possibly including your server - we cannot check it."

Am I the only one who finds it odd that the management of a datacenter "cannot check" whether or not a particular machine was taken by the FBI? Every datacenter I've ever worked in, had an inventory of what equipment was where, and KNEW where every machine was, down to the specific "U" for shared racks, or at least which rack or cage (in cases where a single client had rented an entire rack or cage.) Presumably they know which racks were emptied, they should be able to check their inventory for those three racks to see what was taken...

Or is he saying that the FBI is preventing his personnel from entering the building to check on what was taken and what's still there?

I spent four and a half years working for RS, and while I remember asking for a phone number with every transaction, the only time I ever asked for anybody's SSN was if they were applying for a credit card.

Although I will admit I stopped working there in 1995, so things might have changed in the post-9/11 world. Where was this store, across the street from NSA headquarters?

... why they moved away from their hobbyist roots. I worked for RS for four and a half years, back in the early 1990's, went through their manager training program, and at one point I was in line to get my own store. (Then in 1995 I was offered a job with an ISP, and the rest is history...)

The "force-feed" merchandise in the backs of the stores (called this because the computers in Ft. Worth decided how many of each item each store needed, instead of the manager ordering them) always had the highest margins in the store. I remember looking up a pack of resistors once. We were selling it for 99 cents in the store, but the store cost (the amount which Ft. Worth charged the store on its P&L) was only 18 cents.

At the same time, we had just started selling RS's first multimedia PC (i.e. with a CD-ROM, sound card, and a few games and an encyclopædia of zoo animals) for $1,999... with a store cost of $1,930. Of course, my paycheck was commission, so I concentrated more on selling computers than selling resistors... and even thouth the huge paychecks were nice, even back then I wondered why they didn't structure things to make the employees concentrate more on margins and profits (which the store managers' pay plans do) instead of just raw volume...

Actually, I tend to remember which products use these kinds of intrusive ads. In the situation you describe (remember x because of an ad, don't know anything about y) I would go with y just because x tried to hammer their name into my brain.

In other words, I *do* remember the products being advertised... but in a negative light.