This is a myth. I have a plasma, and there's no issue with burn-in during anything approximating normal use. Maybe if you leave a static image on the TV for days. But who does that?

And take a look at how many of those were "big" by today's standards. None.

Note that copyright has nothing to do with established industries. When copyright was placed into the Constitution, it was frequently common for authors to self-publish. Copyright protected these authors from unscrupulous printers who might print out a few extra (thousand) copies to sell on the side, or from some individual in another part of the country from grabbing your work and selling it elsewhere. Note that this was mostly on the individual level, since companies that were involved in publishing were few and quite small.

I'm pretty sure Aero can get around the antenna issue. The DVR in the cloud is a different issue, and may be fixable by streaming from antenna to home located device to cloud device. The ISPs will scream at the increased load, which could also be solved technically, by having the stream done via multicast. The only problem here are the broadcasters like FOX that don't want you to have this control.

Hmmm, my current car cruises comfortably at 130+ mph and a past one topped out around 180 mph. Not sure a 1909 vehicle even makes 100 mph reliably, although they did exist, as the top speed set in 1909 was roughly 120mph. Wonder what the gas mileage was, not to mention the teeth loosening adrenaline rush.

TBH, there's not much you can do to increase the efficiency of the most efficient simple chemical fuel combo in existence. In a thrust based concept, if you're using all the energy available as thrust, you're done.

The problem with judge's discretion in sentencing is that it is applied so subjectively. Take a drunk driver for instance - one hits and kills a (drunk) bum and goes to prison for 20 years, another kills 4 people and severely injures 2 with no remorse and gets sent to "rehab" for 6 months. Those are hugely different outcomes and were based on judges discretion for sentencing. (The second case is being reviewed, btw, because it did fall so far out of the norm) Having strict guidelines for some actions is good, IMHO. That said, the level of offense admittedly needs some tweaking to at least be more than 'x' level of offense, such as violence or certain age thresholds being met with discretion below those levels.

Perhaps because it was a comedy?

The problem in Africa is that there is no semi-stable large state. Until a stable and large enough state exists to support the infrastructure and provide security for shipping goods internationally, I doubt you'll see a flocking of businesses to Africa. And then there's the political aspects.

Own a cellphone, leave it in random locations, share it with friends, make things really confusing.

which is why blacklisting both google and facebook locally is a good practice, just like washing your hands.

Untrue - Taser's can still be lethal.

Barring Anguirel's post, this is not true for everyone. I've seen people drift while chewing gum, talking to people, looking in the rearview mirror, etc. Some people literally cannot do 2 things at once, with one of those being breathing.

For these types of people, a conversation with a passenger is no different than talking on the phone, or even having kids in the car. They will be distracted in all cases if there's anything at all that can catch their attention.

Other people, however, will tune a conversation out when driving conditions warrant it. They fall outside that distracted group. Part of this is realizing that no phone conversation requires catching everything the first time, and that asking for clarification or repetition is valid, since you're taking the call while driving in the first place.

The entire CA chain? Only if the private keys of all the root servers were subject to the exploit. But, honestly, patching and updating the entire set would probably be the safest thing to do since it is likely at least one was compromised, and that would be the only way to be sure.

Nice projection, if you'd read and comprehended even what was in these 2 posts much less , you'd note that I am quite aware of what's on streaming services. In fact, I used several since they first came out and they all had crap quality and that includes the "better" premium services, including Vudu, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.

Nice ad-hominem,

Funny, the selection of disk based movies seems only to grow and is always available, plus the quality is far superior in all ways. (And yes, that's a side argument for another day - the quality of streaming is abysmal unless you're running it yourself, like I do. A 3 Mbps streaming service has nowhere near the picture quality of a 35Mbps BD or 12+ MBps OTA HD stream, nor the typically 5 Mbps for DVDs, and the differences are painfully obvious on anything above a 40" screen)

The real problem here is that all of these services are generally somewhat bad at suggesting movies, unless someone has personally added a suggestion list that you happen to agree with. How on earth is a 3rd party going to make a better suggestion list out of the limited data available from the primary service? They can't.

I have no need to check yet another service for "top movies" as those are well known and advertised. So this service does nothing for me. Running through the next month's releases available from any of the many sources including official ones takes < 15 min once a month, and I'm done.

I count 7 failures on your part without a single valid point. I'm sure you've had lots of practice puckering.

Even if I did stream, odds are I'd have 1 or 2 services I'd use, and have no need for a kayak search of streaming videos. I also almost never care about what's "trending" currently, as I've either already seen it or don't want to watch it. Rarely does anything that makes such a list spark the thought that "Hey, I might want to watch this".