And they did this outside the US because apparently copyright monopolies have become the 4th branch of government...

What I really want to see is the first virus (or NSA stuxnet variant) that is dropbox api aware so it infects or copies your "secure cloud data". Pretty easy to do because unless it asks for your credentials every time you open or save a file, it means all of the data is open to anything running on your computer.

bzzzzztthankyouforplaying...
Current legal precedent says that if an email message has been on the server for over 6 months they can consider it abandoned property and therefor has no privacy protection. This does not mean that you haven't accessed your account for 6 months. It means only that you left the email in question on the server. Back in POP3 days there might have been an argument for "It's abandoned" but in this day of IMAP and hosted Exchange it is pretty stupid.
This points out the stupidity of many of our laws in this day of rapid technological change.

So once again I have to point out the obvious bit where if the train is coasting to a stop it CAN NOT hit a train that wasn't there before it started coasting.
And once again you are showing that an accident when a train is coasting will be less then an accident from the exact same situation when the train was nicely powered and failed to slow down before the big crunch.


(There actually is a possibility of an "accident" from depowering a really long train at the wrong time. The forces can derail a train where it is going around a switchback type corner. It isn't going to be the catastrophic loss of life like from flipping the off switch of an airliner at 30,000 feet but technically it is an accident.)

Because when coasting it is magically going to hit another train that it would miss if it was still going full speed?
... but maybe if it was going 88 miles per hour!!!

From the RTFA dept...

Not germane to the subject seeing that I haven't seen a server farm that is more then a mile across...

So how far does that train fall before it hits the ground if something fails? Just turning it off isn't a catastrophic failure.

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You take the human systems out of the plane and you aren't just dealing with the failures you observed with the previous system. You have changed the system so you are changing the possible failure points.
One simple example: "Portable EMP generator."

More to the point...

Using the lack of something happening in the past as a proof that it won't happen in the future is an insane 5-year-old's argument.
It is commonly used as the guiding idea behind engineering disasters, mucked up bureaucratic decisions, and trolls on the internet.

It is kind of silly to focus on the need to switch cables since you would have swap the equipment that the cables plug into to get something capable of coding/decoding the information on each end.

Kind of like complaining, "But I'll have to get new shoe laces!" when you are buying shoes.

Wow! This level of paranoia usually requires medication.

There is no shadowy conspiracy where "they" are trying to get you by insuring that there is enough crime. Government is about control combined with the incompetence of the random action that comes from thousands of legs trying to haul the beast in every direction.

Why would someone EVER say that governments have rights? The government is just a hierarchy, an organization chart. It is a service organization (supposedly) that is to fulfill the needs of the people. The idea and assumption that the government has rights that supersede the rights of the people that it was intended to serve is ludicrous!
It is the pervasion of this insane idea is why we have a government that allowed to charge off into a future defined by a very false "safety" that was purchased with the destruction of liberty that these boneheads keep paying lip service to (not to even mention the insolvency this runaway train is charging towards...).

Kepler works by detecting the dimming of the star as the planet transits across it. Size, not radiation, is the key.

The video references the issue with fast charging: Fast discharging.

People tend to forget that high quantities of stored energy have an inherent danger. Laptops catching fire because of lithium-ion battery failures are usually the only hazard that people tend to remember. To truly have a consumer safe device you want something that can be charged quickly but the maximum discharge rate is closer to a conventional battery.
The point is that when you exceed a certain speed of energy release the device starts resembling a bomb more then a battery. A wrench dropped across both posts of a car battery is spectacular enough in a very scary way (even before the battery actually explodes.) (And don't try this! An explosion can spray acid a LONG way.) A device that can discharge almost instantly is even more destructive. We obviously need to be able to store energy for so many different reasons but the method needs to remain safe even when handled in a completely negligent manner... like a consumer device.

No. What you are describing is discrimination.

Uhhh...
So exactly what part of bleeping out a word or phrase isn't "preventing others from speaking" that word or phrase?
I fail to see any argument where failing to censor all speech in anyway changes small selective censorship from being anything except for preventing the speech of that which was censored.

Or to put it in a more simplistic fashion...
In your given example the censorship begins exactly at the beginning of the beep. The censorship ends at the end of the beep. Anything that is outside of the duration of the beep has nothing to do with censorship.
By your argument if you had someone who was censored, you could argue that failing to stop them from speaking to the guy behind the counter at the 7-Eleven would mean that they hadn't been censored because you didn't stop all of their speech. It is a stupid argument.

The real cash cow here is the 30% of every Apple Store sale that Apple rakes in for just sitting there.

That is what has been the driving force behind Microsoft and the development of Windows 8. They have been watching that 30% of every app sold, and they are salivating. Windows RT is the clue. The quantity of software sold for Windows computers is jaw dropping. If Microsoft can wrangle 30% of that whole market by forcing themselves in as the middleman it will be a HUGE tsunami of dollars.


As an observer to this my question is: Will enough people fall into the trap that they can convert the whole market? You have an OS that is only optimized as a handheld interface and it is being rammed down the throats of every person trying to buy the "updated version" of the most entrenched desktop OS in the world.
Maybe the revolt against the useless desktop interface will change the direction things appear to be heading but the direction of the majority of people makes no sense to me anyway.
And maybe the unbelievably lame and irritating commercial of stupid dancing kids pretending to do business will go away. They aren't selling a single unit to business with a commercial like that. They are just making them change the channel.