www.data.gov gets slashdotted in 3...2...1...

If I had a dollar for every time my girlfriend emailed/IMed me an Office document asking for a PDF (and I subsequently opened and exported through OpenOffice) I'd be....well, a little bit more rich.

If you live in Australia/the UK, then it should have been there for quite some time....

My personal GPS jumps from 0 to 10MPH while I drive, and I'm not in a particularly fast car (hyundai elantra).

and subsequently, the Government (as we aussies like to do).

They released a 64bit build as a .deb a while ago. It wasn't a production build but I've had no problems with it in 8.10, even with webcam.

...I can think of a few interesting ways. they all start with cleaning the document of any metadata which points to you, then:

1. drop it on many small thumbdrives around your city/county & watch just about everyone get arrested.
2. buy a fax machine, find a landline no one's watching & fax to everywhere for which you can find a fax number.
3. zip it, label it as the latest Britney single and put it on limewire or rapidshare

Not to mention some have better interfaces than others...

Indeed. The aspects that womens' stereotypes address are generally not the aspects that make them unique (though when I think back about previous girlfriends, the differences definitely come to mind first :P )

I can finally get a 5.0 on the Vista Experience Index!

That's what she said!

Probably better marketing than that Mojave Experiment.

The next step would be to determine how this could be made more dense and mass-produced. GaAs is already a common semiconductor substrate, but how difficult is it to deposit all those layers? 1nm = 10 angstroms is pretty thin to try to make consistenly if I'm not mistaken...

Yes, for the insurance company. Otherwise, there'd be no profit in insuring them!

my g/f once got away with a 750mL bottle of contact lens cleaner fluid...