Or with any luck, perhaps it will encourage public transportation. I personally do not see much of an issue with "texting while riding a train".

I've often wished the android permission model considered "phone home" and "access the Internet" separately. It seems much less risky to me to allow an application to access a predefined small set of sites than to access "everything".

Seems like a lawyer either will be explaining the concept of trademark to his client or will be defending the claim that "Wi-Fi" and "wifi" are not "confusingly similar" to a judge.

The Wi-Fi Alliance's only real next step is to defend their trademark in an attempt to prevent it from becoming genericized.

What makes this particularly interesting is that Chris Dodd is a former US Senator. Shortly before he left the senate, he vowed not to lobby congress, a vow that now appears questionable. Within a few months of leaving the senate, he was hired as the head of MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), causing some controversy in the process.

The ancient PC I was using for a firewall had a sticker rating of 720 watts. The Buffalo router that replaced it is rated at 24 watts and also allowed me to turn off my old WiFi access point. Although there is no question that both stickers overstate usage significantly, I have to believe the general notion that the router is significantly more power efficient and willl pay for itself simply in power-savings. DD-WRT is pretty good at adding back the "customizability".

The geologic forces in an earthquake would pale compared to the crushing force of the first skirt-wearing female in the approval chain.

This idea will never get off the ground (grin). I sense a PR stunt.

TFA States "Parents can still opt for their children to sign in the traditional way.". In other words, the kids are not being "forced".

TFA makes it clear that they cut energy use by 92% through the use of polyurethane.

If you were an impacted client, your next course of action is to file a claim against your business interruption insurance and to locate your off-site backup tapes.

Given the fact that defense attorneys exist, my bet is that the FBI went through the proper channels (getting a warrant) and followed well-established procedures that are geared towards preventing the destruction of evidence and towards maintaining the chain of evidence.

Attempting to sue the FBI would likely result in a lecture on sovereign immunity. Even if a miracle happened and you were to prevail, the settlement money would really just comes from the taxpayers, which would have the effect of punishing you and me, not the government employees (other than the fact that they too are taxpayers :-).

Summarizing TFA ....

Windows 7 32 bit was 3 PCs per 1000, now 4 PCs per 1000.
Windows XP, was 18 PCs per 1,000, now 14 PCs per 1,000

This could easily be interpreted as the infection rates converging together as common tools are used to measure both OSs.

MSRT only "counts" that which it knows about and it only knows about that which has existed long enough and is wide-spread enough to gather the interest of its programmers. Therefore, one would completely expect it to be "better" at cleaning older things than newer things, which would cause the two numbers to converge.

I once worked for a boss who promoted a policy that this was forbidden unless she was one of the travelers. I thought it was funny. Sadly, she was serious.

By making it possible for users to subsequently click "uninstall" and have it actually remove what was added.

I recommend installing a web filter, such as http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ (commercial but free) and using the filtering categories based on the parent's personal beliefs. Also, I recommend that computers be kept in a "public" place where you can see the screen. To accomplish this, our kids' laptops do not work with wireless until they turn 18. The network jacks are in locations where we want them to use the computer. With a netbook, this is may be a bit difficult as it may not have a wired network jack.

What about the house next to the highway? Would the occupants lose their signal every time one of these mobile signal jammers came barreling down the road? Seems like it would be more flexible to require the phone to detect motion using the built in GPS and disable certain features based on speed. For example, texting only works at 4 MPH or less (walking), voice conversations at 65 MPH or less, keypad dialing at ????, emergency calls always permitted, etc.

TFA does not mention it, but I hope the tweets are delayed from real time. After all, one would not want to give a thief advance notice that the police are on the way. Pretty obvious and I'm sure it occurred to the police, but I am a little disappointed (but not surprised) that the reporter did not mention this aspect.