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The legislator is naive. DPS is maliciously stupid. I still don't understand how the law could apply only to computer repair businesses. Every auto mechanic "engages in the business of obtaining [...] information related to [...] the cause or responsibility for [...] damage [...] to property". Christ, the person who wrote that editorial might have violated (1)(B) by investigating the legislator.

What operating system, what database, and are all the printer pages (the HTML pages you're fetching, I mean) identical? If the pages are identical, you could post one here as an attachment and I could take a pass at writing a script.

The CNN stream above is supposed to be as well. It seems to use a proprietary plugin for playback but that might not be important.

That's it. The only ways I can see the law applying to a repair business are if (1)(C) covers data recovery (recovery of lost property) or (1)(D) covers diagnosing problems (property damage). In the latter case, all repair businesses -- computer techs, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, gardeners, etc -- are investigation companies because they all investigate the cause of property damage. In the former, everyone is an investigation company because everyone at some point in their lives investigates lost property. (Forensicate sounds like it means changing something by applying forensics to it.

What is the world coming to when you can't trust a CW affiliate to report the news accurately. (Incidentally, does anyone know how to verb forensic(s)?)

The law requires that investigation companies that do forensic analysis of computers be licensed. Nothing about other computer-related services as far as I can tell.

I can't comment on the international press but the American press most assuredly does not look the other way. One somewhat (in)famous example that comes to mind is the New York Times running front-page stories about the incidents at Abu Ghraib for 32 straight days in April-June 2004. At the height of the story you could scarcely go six hours without seeing or hearing the words "Abu Ghraib". Guantanamo has received similar coverage, though less intense and spread out over a longer period, and many minor scandals and controversies have been extensively reported. Indeed, the press was, rightly o

The world doesn't think in terms of right and wrong. War is war. It's supposed to be horrible. The essence of war is the senseless destruction of the innocent.

Related: Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter to Yahoo!.

/usr/share/misc/pci.ids

NVIDIA MCP51 Ethernet controller.

.... I... hmm..... Are you posting from 1972? Wait, no, you specified Fortran 90.... Huh. Parallel universe?

I agree with the above post.

*nod* It sounds like the reaction I used to have to mosquito bites.

Control Panel->Windows Firewall

Compal is a Taiwanese ODM. Apparently it's the second largest notebook manufacturer in the world. Go figure. Edit: It looks like a Compal FL90.

It's not entirely obvious to me how the CPU would affect GISy-image-processy work. Based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever, I suspect that memory and disk performance would be more important than CPU performance; if that's the case, I think it would be worth, if possible, waiting a month or two for Montevina and its 1066 MT/s FSB, assuming that it makes a different in the real world, and seeing what CPUs are shipping with it. Also, I have no idea what processors are on the market. I stopped paying attention a few years ago. So, no recommendation. 4 GiB of RAM sounds about right.

The mobile Core 2's are Merom (first generation) and Penryn (second generation). The next generation, based on Nehalem, is scheduled for late '08 or early '09. There are also several generations of Centrino platform: Napa (first Core 2 generation), Santa Rosa (current generation), Montevina ("Centrino 2", scheduled for June), and Calpella (scheduled for mid-'09).

Except for a handful of Core 2 Quad 'laptops' that you'd never want anywhere near your lap.

netstat -b should tell you who's sitting on that port.

Speculation: If the stores are otherwise identical, the stores closer the customers will have a competitive advantage. Clustering is a safe way to reduce the variation in travel time/distance between the stores.

Oops: Emphasis added. Debian and Ubuntu have pushed updated packages. OpenSSH host keys can be regenerated like so # ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' -t rsa # ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N '' -t dsa I guess; I gather the Ubuntu package takes care of this. Remember to kill any compromised keys in your ~/.ssh/. No idea what, if anything, needs to be done for the other affected packages.

HP screwed up. Not much Microsoft can about it. Not sure how not much HP can do, either, since their recovery discs/partitions are probably based on the same system image.

The alternative is never releasing the update.

Oh, hey, tar. $ tar -c $SOURCE | tar -x --wildcards '*.mp3' Add other options as needed. Bonus: you can backup over a network by piping through netcat.