We're using VM's to run Xilinx ISE/EDK versions (prior to 11?) that wont run under Win7. It's been working well for the most part. Some limitations as to USB ports but for builds can't be beat.

Yes, trust the gov and what they tell us. I remember not so long back when asked the gov said, well of course we're not spying on U.S. citizens, really would we lie???

I read part of the Verizon license agreement and it appears (IANAL) the users give Verizon the OK to release non-identifying information to third parties. If I'm right about the license, isn't metadata technically non-identifying?

I also am not so naive as too think that companies are using deep mining algorithms (just like good'ol Uncle Sam) to turn the non-identifying data into my name and address so that Citi Bank can send me credit card applications (every freaking week)

You forgot the background music that plays along with the new motto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzHglsRSOsâZ

They also say data gathered during normal use won't leave the console without your explicit permission or a valid court order

FTFY.

I wish I had mod points. Mod parent up!

Can you expand on this notion of free. Perhaps with a $20.00?

This is interesting as I recently exchanged emails with Fienstien (D-CA). It was about the 2'ed but her logic was the same. You don't have "absolute" rights! You have rights that can be and are limited under the laws that those folks in DC have been passing without your knowledge. In my conversation with her I got the solid belief that my rights end where they impose any heartache on the government doing whatever the government wants to do. If a limitation to our rights does not exist it will soon after that right stops the government from doing something. You are "free" only up to a point beyond that you're under arrest.

Except for the obvious disabled folks can more stuff, why is thought control better then just using you thumbs on a joystick? Seems to me it's much harder to put on a scull cap, try to think of just one thing for a long time and so on verses picking up a controller and flying the thing. Or, do we intend to have an army amputees piloting drones in the future?

ummm, yeah it kinda has changed. Look at the transmission- computer controlled (software). Engine: wow lots of software there, steering speed sensitive has a CPU in there. Hell, the windows nowadays are controlled by MCU on a CAN bus. Even the gauges on the dash MCU controlled. Today's cars dripping in microprocessors and micro-controllers all running. Cars today are SW with wheels.

I think that can be said of most successful businesses (patent trolls are an exception to this of course). Apple and Samsung are acting no different than any other corporation in suing for what will make them money or protect their perceived property. Until patents reform takes place it's just how the game is played. I'd like to believe, like the OP, that corporations would realize that focusing on their products and not on litigation is what they'd rather do but I've been wrong before.

Why that would be 3*10^4 furlongs/fortnight or there abouts. Them apes can be quick over short distances!

Allow whaling IF the whalers buy and mount high power lasers capable of melting a hole in a ship to the whales head. They must also train the whales to shoot at any ship that has WHALE SHOOT ME painted on the side. And, you guessed it, they must paint WHALE SHOOT ME as large as possible on both sides of their ships.

We must act to save this poor soul. OK, now I want to distract him from the Fox News channel. OK I'll quickly change the station and... There we go Duck Dynasty. What could be safer?

Yeah, well now we know why /. is so slow: all those spelling mistakes.