I'm guessing it would have the problems of the Palm OS graffiti alphabet only cubed.

At my school, the campus bookstore actually does use dumb terminals. All other administration computers have an emulator program.

There should be a market for some kind of kvm switch that works the other way around though I have no idea how it would be implemented.

Done that with a spare 17". Aspect ratio isn't quite as good on mine and the display itself isn't that great, but I can imagine.

WHOOHOO YEAH!!!!

(maybe the NASA cuts won't eviscerate spaceflight after all)

Yeah, but back then speeding tickets were a) not very common (according to people who were driving then) b) rarely paid because hearings degenerated into a lot of "did not" - "did too" ing. (educated guess plus anecdotes) c) not very high (matter of public record)

Now facebook will delete every nasty post anyone has ever written about me (like the ones complaining that I don't have facebook), right? Right? ... Oh, I forgot. I am just one mostly peaceful and law-abiding citizen, not thousands of armed and murderous thugs so I don't rate much sensitivity.

That's only when they get challenged and need an excuse. Usually they simply don't care. Side issue: Does it strike anyone else as odd that Congress rarely tries to justify their actions based on the "necessary and proper" clause? Seems to me that means even they admit most of the laws they pass aren't "necessary and proper."

but I'd be(sic) the formulation of ink hasn't changed much since the first Bubblejet printers showed up on the market in the early 90s. There's where you're wrong. One of the issues the parent raised was viscosity. I don't know much about printer cartridges, but what (s)he said makes sense and jibes with my experience with both cartridge refilling kits and learning to write with a goose quill (yeah, I know.) Ink has to be the right consistency for any given medium you use to deliver it. If you put India ink into a ball-point pen it will leak. Any time the cartridge technology changes, the ink would probably have to be reformulated.

Just a recap of some things already mentioned:

Remotely disabling a car's engine without any regard for the traffic situation around said vehicle.

No control of brakes.

Onstar can already do something similar. We know where that's led.

Anyone here in a volunteer EMS? I'm not but I've ridden shotgun a couple times when I was with friends who suddenly got calls. Not only does the emergency vehicle have to stay moving, but other drivers need to yield quickly.
As far as I can tell the only possible reason for implementing such a system is that IBM has recently developed a large portfolio in the trauma treatment and tort industries. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I don't actually believe that, but it definitely fits from a certain angle.

I pay $15 for DSL but absolutely nothing for TV. It is a law of nature that there is never anything to watch on TV. It is also natural law that people must prove this law by observation a minimum of once a week. Having 15 channels instead of 150 cuts way down on your observation time.

Ah, so Vista isn't malware either? Shucks, I can't use one of my favorite lines on friends who ask me for help.