I'd feel more safe if they provided parachutes. It's hard to survive a plane crash when you're traveling towards the ground at thousands of feet per second without a parachute. I think all the stuff they talk about like "using your seat as a floatation device" are all complete nonsense when 90+% of plane flights don't travel over bodies of water. Give me a parachute and a way to jump out of the plane, and at least I know that I'm going to *possibly* survive.

The sentencing guidelines have been changed several times over the last 20-30 years regarding the penalties for this type of offence. In the 1980's or 1990's, had this guy been sentenced, he would likely be facing probation or at most a few months in jail, depending on his prior history. These days, they really throw the book at these people and the sentences are on par with murderers and other violent felonies. This man was born about 10 years too late, and was about 10 years older than he should have been when he committed these crimes. Also, I highly doubt the inflated numbers involved in the theft of the credit card data. The credit card companies have been known to dramatically inflate these losses, and then if you ask them for any sort of documentation proving any of it, the real numbers are somewhere around 1% of the original amount they specified. They probably claim this as a deduction on their taxes.

Pretty soon everyone will already have their own personal NetFlix. There are only about 5TB of movies (US english) anyway, it takes only a few months to download every movie ever made. It takes even less for TV shows.

Out of band doesnt work with analog lines.

Sure, for SIP to SIP, but not for SIP to PSTN, which is where most calls terminate. ( http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+DTMF )

if the codec cant reliably do dtmf detection, then its no good -- i'll stick with ulaw disallow=all allow=ulaw

whats not fair is RIM backdooring their product to appease third word oppressive regimes.

If you are a software engineer and you make over a million dollars per year, do you think you would want people to know this? I'd rather just file a W-2 and say I made $20K/year and write the rest off through my corporation as an expense. I think once you get above a few hundred K per year, it really behooves you to adjust what you report as personal income accordingly, otherwise you're just going to be giving away all your money towards taxes. I think most people in this position are already doing this tho, so I'm preaching to the choir I'm sure. :/

Instead of spending time on useless things like this, they should really focus on making it a legal requirement that cars drive themselves. I think more lives would be saved if human error was removed from the equation. They are talking about saving 292 lines per year? This is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of lives you would save if all cars drove by themselves. According to this link, there are about 100,000 traffic fatalities per year... If you want to make a law, why not focus on ones that might halve the number of traffic fatalities... Saving 292 people who didnt look back when they were putting their car in reverse is such a random useless thing to talk about. Making a law to "fix" this "problem" is ridiculous. If cars were forced to drive by themselves, so many other problems would be solved. DUI would not exist, all the "using a cell phone while driving" laws would immediately become irrelevant.

It seems like the escalation of groping is conditioning for what is next, which is full colonoscopy for each traveler. Don't think so? Well, what happens when a bomber puts PETN in their rectum and successfully blows a hole in a plane?

Might as well disable all potentially distracting activities that drivers do:

• eating while driving
• tuning the radio while driving
• Talking to occupants of the vehicle while driving
• Turning your head left or right while driving
• having the radio played too loud while driving
• smoking while driving
• doing anyting with your two hands besides putting them both on the steering wheel while driving
• doing anything with your eyes besides looking straight ahead while driving

Where does it end? They should make a law that requires vehicles to drive themselves and all of these laws (DUI, while driving, etc) will go away...

Do you think this announcement has anything to do with todays news about Another 20 oil tankers burned as Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for third attack in three days?

MSFT doesn't write any of their native apps in C#, so it makes one wonder why spend all this time writing these interpreted languages in the first place? It always seemed to me that Microsoft would want to detract people from writing C / C++ code so their own code would run faster without interpretation performance penalties. Similar to the way MSFT threw a curveball in the 80's when they push out GWBasic on their customers to fool them into thinking it was a real programming language, thereby stifling innovation and competition. Rather than release MSC++ or MASM as the default compiler, they put out GWBasic. It's all about smoke and mirrors over at MSFT.

An article would not an article without the obligatory "Obama" comment. It doesn't matter if the article is about counterfeiting or sewing, I read the comments intently for the Obama comment, and sure enough am able to find it.

Learning to program goes as follows:

• x86 Assembly
• The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols by W. Richard Stevens
• PHP.net