I mean, let's say you did kill us. Or didn't. There could be torture. Whatever. But somehow you found the goods. What would your cut be?

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


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Betsy HP - Apr 18, 2005 3:40:00 pm PDT #2512 of 10003
If I only had a brain...

Was THAT ever the wrong thread.


Jon B. - Apr 18, 2005 3:41:37 pm PDT #2513 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

It was technology related.


Tom Scola - Apr 18, 2005 3:44:05 pm PDT #2514 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Flickr just upgraded their service, too. I'm now signed up for four years: [link]

I downloaded a bunch of photos to flickr. When I try to edit the photo title and description, it doesn't seem to save. I add/edit the info and click "save", but when I reload the photo, the new info doesn't appear. Any suggestions? This happens in both Firefox and IE on WinXP.

Flickr occasionally has problems with their database replication, so your change might not be available immediately. (It just worked for me, though). Have you tried going to the photo's page and clicking on the title?


Jon B. - Apr 18, 2005 4:02:21 pm PDT #2515 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Flickr occasionally has problems with their database replication, so your change might not be available immediately.

No, it never took. But I'm trying again and now it's working. Go figure.


Jon B. - Apr 18, 2005 4:22:43 pm PDT #2516 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Hitachi has this odd animation on their site. It's like a Schoolhouse Rock about perpendicular recording technology.


DCJensen - Apr 18, 2005 6:12:09 pm PDT #2517 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4 Billion >[link]


Liese S. - Apr 18, 2005 7:52:06 pm PDT #2518 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Whoa. Good thing I already bought Studio. Adobe's non-profit donation guidelines are a lot tougher than Macromedia's.


Rob - Apr 18, 2005 11:10:06 pm PDT #2519 of 10003

I don't even know what questions to ask.

Ask you new neighbors about the cable modem service. If they have no complaints, it's the way to go.

My house is at the very end of the cable loop for the neighborhood, so the performance and reliability are poor. I really pity the folks who use it for the voice service.


Laura - Apr 19, 2005 3:26:41 am PDT #2520 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.

I am still on DSL. The cable is much faster here, but during last year's mulitiple hurricanes the cable people were down forever while I had my service. I'm hoping that they improved with the zillion miles of new cable they had to run, but I don't quite trust them yet.


Gandalfe - Apr 19, 2005 3:42:26 am PDT #2521 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

There are inherant security concerns with cable - it's much easier to tap into the line than with DSL. That being said, it would take a special kind of geek to tap into it anyway, and, for what, so they could watch you playing Everquest all night? Chances are it's not an issue.

Also, if they take your cable down for payment issues, they just de-authorize it, which takes about 2 minutes to resolve. If they take your DSL down, they usually have to completely rebuild the circuit, which can take days.