These kind of thoughts make the Google glass project fascinating and terrifying. Street View the world. Capture all the print material. How much more?

What is their goal in this? What to they gain from having MSE installed on systems?

I'm having Blade Runner flashbacks.

Flashbacks to the future are strange.

I don't mind them telling me how to use their software. I do mind them telling me I don't have all of my legal rights if they should be irresponsible. Important difference.

Now that Steam insists I must sign some of my rights away, it doesn't really matter what platform it runs on anymore.

If the problem with space exploration is the politics of paying the bill, why can't we point some significant portion of the military industrial complex at the problem? We can have all the pork-barrel juicy government contracts and create jobs, and be working towards improving mankind instead of mass murder.

If you can't wipe it, do this.

1) Create a new user account with Administrator privileges.
2) Log in to the new account
3) Delete the old account
4) Review the laptop for remaining personal information and delete it. Check the public folders, and program files directories, particularly if you used financial software.
5) Use a program to wipe the free space on the drive. Single pass is sufficient. Here is an open source utility to do it pretty easily: http://eraser.heidi.ie/

Lets say for a moment that gun control laws would have kept this individual from acquiring them. Waiting for the movie to let out and then driving a vehicle at high speed into the crowd would likely kill and injure as many or more people. If someone loses their mind and wants to kill people, there is little we can do to stop them. It's tragic, but it's part of the price of a free country.

excellence! for the Amiga had spell check as you type in 1991, as well as a grammar checker. Microsoft did not innovate those.

iThink iWill iGouge MiSelf.

It mostly had to do with the case not getting fast tracked. Once they got that decision, they already won, since the delay would mean it wouldn't be finished under the existing president's term, allowing them to influence the DOJ with massive campaign donations to both parties.

My vote would be Tahmoh Penikett.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0671886/
(Helo from Battlestar Galactica for those that don't click the link)

Correct. There is also only one Highlander movie, no Star Wars prequels were made, there was only one season of Heroes. The world is a better place this way.

I don't like it, but it's clear that consumers are not all that interested in upgrading their computers anymore. The local box stores (Staples, Best Buy) failed to carry laptop DDR3, and often don't have any for desktops in stock either. When you look at their selection of RAM, it didn't fit in *any* of the products they sell.

All of them using Flash and Java. Most of which spend a lot of time unpatched. Even if they are, zero day exploits happen monthly.