That is a great picture. How about adding a link to the original image?

Or you know... You do a university level class in high school, not the other way around. Then you take the test and if you prove you actually learned the material you get university credits for completing it. And the reason it isn't done just because it can be done is that it is *hard* (and rightfully so) for a lot of high school students. Even if you take an AP class, if you don't score high enough on the test you don't get the credits.

All of this has happened before and will happen again.

I don't want to hate on them either but that is kind of the vibe they are putting out. Fixing bugs can be boring and tedious but it has to get done to maintain a quality product. I like Firefox and have been using it since it was called Firebird but since 3.6 I think they are starting to lose touch with what users care about and are just copying whatever other people (read: chrome) are doing.

Firefox 4 hasn't been out long and if Google keeps with the browser support schedule. Starting August 1st they won't support Firefox 3.6 anymore. I am all for getting people to upgrade but it seems like they'll be dropping support for Firefox versions pretty fast if Mozilla can keep up with their rapid release schedule.

It is very refreshing to read this. Maybe all hope is not lost if the court system is finally wising up to this behavior.

It is happening. In a comment above someone posted a link to an article about it on The Inquirer and the comments are funny and sad. People are really upset that they can't play their call of duty.

A lot of the comments indicate people are suffering from a severe case of not knowing all the facts. But that shouldn't surprise anyone. They can't see the big picture and understand that their anger should be directed at Sony. I'm not saying DoSing the PSN is the best approach but it would be effective if people were actually upset at Sony. Based on the comments on that article people think GeoHot is a criminal that should go to jail.

This isn't the first group that has gotten upset at Top Gear. They have a pretty long list. The BBC goes to bat for them almost without fail, not surprising since the show has an estimated viewing audience of 350 million worldwide.

It also should be noted that in the episode in question, they also feature a test drive of the Honda FCX Clarity, Honda's hydrogen powered car. And they liked it a lot.

While I totally agree with you that Microsoft making gold a requirement to use Netflix sucks. If you do still want it, you can get a year of gold membership for 30-35 dollars usually. Just keep an eye out on slickdeals and other websites for sales on the 1 year prepaid cards. Still a real annoyance but at least it isn't as expensive.

C# is tied to one OS? Huh, I guess no one bothered to tell the guys that make Unity that, seeing how their product uses C# and is cross platform.

You shouldn't be able to copyright or trademark a number. That is just absurd. In your example you mention a list of numbers and a math equation, sure you are in good faith but if Sony has a copyright or a trademark on that number it still doesn't stop them from taking you to court and making you fold simply because they have the resources to tie you up in court for years. So you might be in right but because you don't have millions of dollars to spend to defend yourself, you'll lose. Since we use numbers to represent everything at some basis or another, they shouldn't be allowed to be copyrighted or trademarked.

Isn't that just crazy, you are saying that just displaying a specific number shouldn't be allowed? So if a lottery happened to come up with the same number as Sony's encryption key, in your world Sony would be justified and in the legal right to sue them for infringement?

The "unlimited" data plan is limited to 5GB a month. After you go past 5GB your throttled way down, AFAIK.

From TFA:

I would be shocked if they offered firmware upgrades for old hardware to add IPv6 support even if the hardware could do it. It seems more likely they and others will use it as an excuse to obsolete a ton of old hardware and force people to buy new stuff.

R rated movies are shown in theaters all the time and are easily sold in stores. You are thinking of NC-17 rated movies, those ones aren't shown in theaters as much.

"Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people – as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes..." - Quark

While I'm unsure if there is indeed an actual software problem, you kind of do have a point. If I'm not mistaken drive by wire type systems for other things like planes are more regulated and have more legally required testing.

Toyota and the other car companies do have a vested interest in it not being a software glitch because it would cause a huge public outcry. Lawmakers would probably add new regulations to make them put their hardware through more rigorous testing and possibly 3rd party code inspection. Which I'm not against actually but the car companies would hate it.

Not to mention that it would open the door for lots of lawsuits claiming such and such happened due to a software fault in the car.