http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/iphone-thief-off-the-hook-due-to-privacy-laws/

Telus seems to ignore the blacklist, at least at this time.

"I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by."

- Doc Brown

I sold a Gravis Ultrasound Classic a few months back for $50. There are a few hobbyest clubs around that tinker with old gear, but I doubt many will pay cash.

Ditto on the Usenet part. If I ever meet anybody IRL who I corresponded with on Usenet (and it's happened at least once), I'll know who they are immediately, because of real names. That civility and community online is rare in public forums these days, though I'm sure there's something about the type of person who had internet access those days (educated, could afford a $1000 typewriter (ie. computer) that that could also access the internet).

Slashdot was one of my first online accounts (other than email) I had created, and I didn't see any reason to use anything other than my real name. I probably would make a different choice if I could create a new account and weren't so attached to the low user ID.

Let me know when Trumpet will release a network stack, so I can load up Netscape in all its glory.

As a matter of fact, I do carry a Zune and a smart phone. The reason? Battery life. I really don't want to run down the battery on my phone so I can listen to audio books and music. As a dedicated device, the Zune seems to handle that sort of thing much more efficiently than my phone. I go days of heavy use of my Zune before I have to recharge.

Maybe they thought it was the new Mafia game.

That sounds great, until you realize that UW is cutting the numbers of in state students that they're admitting because out of state students bring in more money in tuition. WWU cutting it's CS department reduces the options that in-state students have for getting a technical education.

For example, management, monitoring, and logging traffic.

Awesome. Experts exchange now blocked! This has immediately become my favorite google search feature.

by the number of idiots who have posted comments on this story. 1. Blizzard has to defend their trademarks or lose them, so of course someone creating a game called "World of Starcraft" is going to get a C&D. 2. People seem to get the idea that fans of something should be able to do whatever they want with that thing. Fanfic can be interesting, but non-canonical, and a creator may feel that his/her baby was violated by it. I feel it is entirely up to the copyright owner as to whether or not they allow such things, and so it is completely up to Blizzard whether or not they let you muck around in their world. If someone steps over the line of what they will allow, here comes a C&D.

It's sad that these guys have put so much work into their mod for naught, but Blizzard acted as soon as they knew, so you can't really blame them.

The article doesn't say that there had been no updates for 10 years. It says that there were no contributions to the code from outside of the company for 10 years.

The Time article never actually states that her son was misdiagnosed. It says that some scientists have pointed out that his symptoms are similar to a childhood neurological disorder. It's the blog (a blog for a sports based radio talk show) that jumps to that conclusion. Personally, I'm inclined to believe the diagnosis. In theory, you have a doctor who has made a diagnosis based on direct observation vs. a group of scientists that don't like her position, and who have found something that is similar to the symptoms that she has talked about publicly.

Of course, I'm one of those parents of a child with Autism who "lives on hope." I also have vaccinated all three of my children, and will continue to do so. Do I believe that vaccines are 100% safe? I'm not sure. I think there are flaws in the methodologies of the studies that call in to question their conclusions. However, there is no conclusive evidence that vaccines cause harm, so I'm simply left with the benefits. Also, I have to think of this: would I rather my child live with Autism, or die from smallpox or polio?

As long as the office furniture keeps pace with technology. Basically from the synopsis, people have gone from 8x8 cubicles to 7x7. Since flat panels have pretty much taken over for CRT's, the loss of one foot of space in either direction isn't that big a deal, as long as the table space has shrunk accordingly. Basically, the cubicle worker hasn't lost much usable space.

Not necessarily true. It is representative of a CLASS of scientific and engineering problems. If the science that you want to run involves heavy use of vectors, then you want a computer that would be high on the top 500 list. Derivatives and integrals? Not as much. Problems that require a high degree of interaction between nodes? Get a computer with a faster interconnect. It all depends on the science you intend to do with that computer. The NEC Earth Simulator (mentioned in another thread) would do poorly for chemical models compared to another machine. Climate models wouldn't run as well on a cluster of Dells as it would on a Vector based box like the Earth Simulator.