But even in a small class of 20, if it takes a half hour per student, that's 10 hours for the professor.

Amazon MP3 has over 11 million songs.

Robb Topolski is urging people to opt-out in the InfoWorld summary.

"If people reject the settlement, they are freed from the restrictions of this settlement and can sue independently or join any other action," Topolski said in an email. "If enough people reject the settlement, it sends a strong message that the class of people that this settlement was intended to represent are dissatisfied."

I've always preferred "2 Bush 2 Furious" myself.

The use of encryption is already forbidden in China, and could potentially be suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. You'd have to use an encryption scheme that appears to send normal SMS messages.

In some cases, yes, but its current market value is not in any way proportional to its face value:

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Inability to understand or accept belief systems other than one's own - check

Which are mostly in place to make it more difficult for people to offer 3rd party generic cartridges.

To be honest, as an Xbox Live user, I have no problem with Microsoft's decision on this one. For me, people that are modding and hacking the games totally ruin the online experience and take the fun out of it for the rest of us, and I don't think it's at all unreasonable for Microsoft to assume that modded consoles are being used to cheat in this way. Furthermore, I'm actually glad to have a service that's pay to play because it provides that much more incentive for users not to cheat/harass or do other things that ruin the service for others.

Thanks, I actually really needed to hear that.

This is a good strategy if and only you are confident that you are the best option available. In Google's case, this is probably true, but I can't speak for the GP's case. (Although the fact that confidence is attractive to most women might help in this case.)

Actually, all of them have been granted monopolies over the use of certain frequencies by the FCC. If we are going to grant them these special exclusive licenses, we should also consider what these companies do with that privilege.

Yep. If you can characterize the behavior pattern enough to automatically determine that it's "human-like," then you can automatically generate "human-like" behavior. The only way around it that I can see is if there is some sort of asymmetrical information involved, such as the invisible form honeypot mentioned in TFA--the website's creator (and thus the bot-detection script) knows that there is an invisible form present, but it's difficult for a script to see without rendering the site in standards compliant CSS.

DownLoadable Content.

Right, but in this case they are changing the Terms of Service after the fact.