I've essentially stopped going to see movies... you have to sit upright in those terrible dirty seats, listen to idiots yell through the movie, can't pause it to go to the bathroom, pay way too much for food, and now they're watching you on cameras so HJ's are out of the question. Did I mention you have to pay a metric ton for the privilage? I bought a nice projector for my house, and now everything is 10' wide. The ONLY catch is you have to wait for blu-ray on netflix - something I've grown accustomed to. It also prevents you from being suckered into paying over $50 for a night out where you see a really crappy movie that only looks good in previews. HJ's all around.

This is why I love slashdot. Of all the sites that posted this, and all the indignant comments on those sites - Slashdot's first comment, reply and response hit the nail on the head. Most commenters on other sites didn't even get that it was two different counties involved.

Give out 3 different tests with similar questions, change the order of the questions, or both. When people start cheating you'll have a 2/3 chance of them getting the answer from a different version and you'll know immediately.

Something tells me they may not have wifi access or laptops to live blog from.

Yeah, agreed. I posted this below yours as well, but you don't need anything else.

There was this mac store (not apple, but 3rd party) in brooklyn that had 2 stores at one point. They had a big plasma on each store's wall that just had an iChat video connection full screen (all day every day) so they could yell over to the other store and find out if they had something in stock without having to make a phone call or check inventory computers... So... I'd just get a couple mac mini's & flat screens, they come with iChat.

Won't there just be an SBSettings toggle for it within minutes? Just like the apple store application remote kill 'feature?'

In a television network setting I'm sure the effects of piracy (if any) would come at the green lighting projects stage. If piracy was affecting the bottom line then the networks would simply green light fewer projects, tv pilots, movie scripts etc. That's for big budget things. People who can make their content on a home computer probably would only have their projects 'canceled' if they make less money on previous projects and simply don't have enough time or money to devote for one or more projects in the future. Either way it's hard to nail down which un-green lit projects would be canceled due to piracy as I'm sure there are heaps of scripts and pilots not getting produced all the time anyway. They seem to be making enough money, I don't see any empty slots on my television schedule and I'm pretty sure there's new movies opening every weekend. People still create songs by themselves and put them on itunes. If EVERYONE started pirating, there wouldn't be enough money to produce new stuff, but because of advertising deals and the fact that there is still a good chunk of people that pay for things I don't think they're hurting any time soon.

I'd hate us because of the greedy wall streeters....

Not really furthering the discussion, but all Tuesday night from 7 pm to 9 am Wednesday I was without power because a manhole (or 2) exploded at the end of my street. 8 firetrucks, many many police cars.... tons of fun. I'd really hate to be on top of one when it explodes.....

With the Moxi (and a little Harmony magic) I have it down to 2-3 seconds to skip the ads.

Back when I was in school they had windows 3.1 on the computers, and the 'file explorer' (I think that was the name) icon came up with a password when you tried to run it. I just asked a teacher indirectly about it (technology incompetent teacher) and they were like 'it's scholar or something.' No hacking required.

I can only speak for Citibank, but it wouldn't be too hard for me to believe that all banks are this retarded. They called me a year ago to tell (...ask?) me I had drained my bank account (via my debit card) with two charges from the Philippines (Thousands of dollars). I told them of course not and that they needed to get my money back. I also asked them to not allow charges from overseas in the future and if I needed something from the Philippines I'd call and let them know. They said there was no way to do that, and that any charges from anywhere in the world would continue to be put through. I got my money back within days. I don't see how this makes them any money.

As I've said before, if you can touchify an OS, it's great. I use a very specific version of Windows XP on the lighting console I use. The dual touch screens take the place of the mouse (there's a trackball built in but only used really when a touch screen has issues) and of course tons of hard buttons and knobs etc. By combining the 2, touchscreens and keyboards (hard buttons) you can get everything done so fast you wouldn't believe. I don't think you can have only one or the other and go as fast as having both. That being said, it's built so the touch screens are at the right angle (and height, but that's up to you) and distance from the hard buttons, to make everything easier - you don't end up moving your hands too much. Even hours of using touch screens don't make you too fatigued.