If anything, it looks like it might be a decent HTPC box, although it's a little pricy for that.

@mangonights: We have pagers around my day job still. They're pretty common in EMS (AMR in California has oodles of them) and my wife has an office one when the staffs the after hours nurse line.

@FlyingAvocado: For some reason, saying "To the dark underside of the Internet!" doesn't seem so inappropriate for that one... :)

They just used the G.I. Joe base as a model.

@FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns: in addition to pissing and moaning, don't forget "shoveling cash to their elected congress critters to pass more anti-piracy legislation." :/

@Wayne Ripley: This brings "two chicks at once" to a whole new level.

so it's another experiment saying that McD's was pretty much right, and that girl and her 'experiment' was a load of shit?

@CaptainJack: My experience is the opposite of yours. While they're nowhere near as common as Dell/HP boxes, pretty much every other sysadmin that I know has seen an Xserve outside of a design studio. This includes friends in medical research, university applications, and government. Obviously, you've had a different…

@Andy Mesa: Don't forget FileMaker Server. Heck, I'm using OS X

@Stevox: Well, you could certainly fit a lot more of them in a

@ZenInsight: I have met plenty that have no idea what to do with the stove.

@Leelee: Exactly. It was like the worst of Geocities came back to attack.

I wish that I could sue spammers for $62,500 in statutory damages... for each verifiable spam that I get. :/

@Tzalaf: or cocaine, heroin, meth, and possibly smuggled human beings went either way either. This report focused on marijuana, but more stuff is coming across the border.

@OddManOut: I still wondered how they were going to collect tax revenue on items that were being grown for personal use anyway.

@Chris Pierce: I could open that with just a halligan, but we'd also bringing a charged line with us. Or an extinguisher off of the engine. ;-)

@OddManOut: I lived in Japan for years and frequently saw fire extinguishers in the exact same "break glass in emergency" cases that we have.

@Ian Logsdon: That's why I'm looking forward to seeing AirVideo on the Apple TV. All of the transcoding is done on your (hopefully) more powerful desktop.

@4digital: They consider it to be too expensive. That's usually the reason.

This is a completely normal process for new shipping hardware. If I recall correctly, EFFA is "Engineering Field Failure Analysis" or something.