They're also going to run into the rather more important problem of properly sealed cabin doors, preventing them from gaining access to the cabin (and thus preventing them from piloting the plane in the first place).

I'm not sure which part I find more depressing. The part where people at Epic were stupid enough to let something like this happen, or the part where the people at Epic created a DRM solution that could be bypassed by changing the system clock.

If you're looking to do volunteer-type work on a wider scale, two free/open-source projects to look into are Sahana, which helps coordinate disaster-relief aid, and OpenMRS, which is an electronic medical records system that's used across Africa.

Very true. I use a Shuttle KPC with a 1.8GHz Celeron and 1GB of RAM for a good deal of my everyday computing. The only times I notice slowdowns are when I'm loading websites with flash. (And I notice slowdowns with flash on my laptop, too, and that has a Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz.)

They might have been, but with the original iPhone, you couldn't write comparable apps, and even now that there is an SDK Apple still strictly limits the features and functionality of apps by forcing them through its app store and by preventing developers from using certain of their libraries.

Apple does not allow its developers feature parity in the way Palm seems to be doing.

Windows 7 is in beta. It has bugs. Why are you surprised?

It's not like they pulled an Ubuntu and actually damaged hardware.

Have you actually installed XP lately?

It takes at least an hour and multiple reboots. 7 installing faster than XP is not at all surprising.

(This being XP w/ SP2, mind you.)

That's a much better thing than having the filtering tied directly to the proposal.

I am reasonably confidant the supreme court will shoot down anything involving content filtering. If free broadband and content filtering are separate, we don't need to lose one along with the other.

This is why I like my Logitech G9. You install the software once to configure it, and all of your settings are stored on the mouse itself. So it works the same no matter what computer you're plugging it into, and requires no software running.

No, it still sucks.

I spent 45 minutes a few months ago waiting for it to start. In offline mode. This has happened several times to me.

Steam is something that I avoid as much as humanly possible.

There is some unfortunate truth in this.