The number of people who don't get hired because the shrub in their front yard is trimmed crooked is considerably lower than the number of people who don't get hired because they have MS, cancer or some other chronic disease that will cost the company's insurer big bucks and drive up the cost of insurance and cost the company in lost productivity when they're incapacitated. Oh sorry, I meant, don't get hired because they "aren't a good fit with the company culture".

The NSA should have put a clause in his employment contract preventing him from competing against them for the next X years.

That was true until BMW decided to Bangle them all up, of course. Now, it's just... ugh.

Is it illegal retransmission for my stepson in New York to VCR a program and mail me the tape?
If no, then Aereo should be completely legal.

Because when (I think it was) CBS was in a dispute with the cable companies they didn't let their content be carried over the cable as leverage for insanely higher re-transmission fees. Some desirable sports are only shown on CBS. People got around the CBS action by receiving over-the-air broadcasts. Aereo let everybody in the country who wanted to put it to CBS. CBS didn't like that.

Cable is a one-to-many system.
Aereo is 1-to-1.
That is a Major difference.
It's not "streaming" to download your own data across the Internet.
The Supreme Court are a bunch of technologically backward morons!

Why would anyone sell shovels? If it was profitable, they'd dig everything themselves.

Actually, the real profit is in licensing the shovels with a per-scoop fee.

I'm not so sure about televisions. A lot of people replaced their CRTs with LCDs and plasmas, so most of the people I know have televisions that are less than 10 years old. Many of them less than 5 years. From what I've seen of the build quality of most modern TVs, they'd be lucky to get 10 years out of them if they are used regularly, so I think the era of buying a TV and keeping it for 20-30 years is probably over for most people.

Java is still slow. But unless you're using it for heavy number crunching, you won't notice it on a 2014 computer like you did on a 1998 computer.

To put it bluntly, heartbleed was exciting and in security, exciting is bad.

The big thing that I thought the K1000 lacked in terms of a student camera was a DOF preview lever. That's something I always found to be valuable, and for a student learning the concepts being able to see what changing the aperture does in the camera is a good learning tool. The self timer? Nice to have, but probably not as necessary.

I've always liked the Pentax "M" cameras. One of the best viewfinders on any SLR I've ever laid my hands on, even on the more basic ME.

The shipping company would weigh the cost of transport against the risk of losing the cargo and choose a route that wasn't so direct that pirates would expect you to take it, but not so long that the extra fuel and time costs would make it unprofitable.

It would make the pirate encounter all the more surprising, too.

I think you fundamentally misunderstood his statement, thought the random throwaway statement at the beginning about software being covered by copyright didn't help.

He talked about how someone could build a machine with mechanisms (triggered by switches) built into it and patent that machine. But once that machine was invented, nobody else should be able to come along and patent using the machine with a certain set of switches on or off, because the switches and their options were already included in the original invention.

The original Celeron was a Pentium II without the L2 cache (which was a separate chip back then in the Slot 1 package so could be easily eliminated). This pretty much got laughed out of the marketplace.

The next Celeron was a different chip, with an onboard 128k L2 cache that ran at the CPU speed as opposed to 512k that ran at half speed on the Pentium II. For many people, the smaller, faster L2 cache performed just as well as the larger, slower L2 cache on the Pentium II. Furthermore, these were some of the most overclockable chips ever made, most could easily overclock 50% without any special considerations. And as you mentioned they could be used in a dual CPU set up. What you probably remember is people buying the Celeron 300A and then bitching when they got one that wouldn't overclock.

The next Celeron was basically a P3 with half the L2 cache disabled, and for a long time hobbled with a 66Mhz bus speed. They were also sure to disable the ability for them to be used in a dual CPU set up. These were okay chips, which got better once they bumped the bus to 100Mhz, but as far as I know there is no way to turn them back into a P3.

Crucial had a bad run of memory back in the DDR2-era. Easily identified by the yellow heat spreaders. Not sure what the problem was but I knew several people who bought that memory for vastly different computers (some Intel, some AMD, some namebrand, and some whitebox), and all had problems. Since then I've avoided Crucial. Corsair is good, and I've never had problems with Kingston either.