Mod parent WAY up! This could be devastating for information distribution. Look around on stories that link from here, Digg, Gizmodo, wherever, and see how many of them say "Copyright by blahblahblah". Imagine not being able to find that information except by checking all of those websites individually. Aggregation could be killed by this.

That's not as bad as the last time I was in the Las Vegas airport a couple of years ago, but I actually found that most if not all of the outlets in the passenger gate areas did not function. I guess they turn off the breakers except when needed to keep people from stealing their power.

Now what they need to do is make an app that will allow me to load all the old floppies with these games into DosBox in some way that it will act like floppies, virtual drives or such.

Assuming this is a fairly recent computer with SATA, why do you need a frickin bay caddy to add a second hard drive? Ever heard of eSATA?

Nah, can't do that, teacher might use the camcorder to videotape students in the locker room.

And this is why structural engineers are paid more typically. Their designs failing can kill people. As an HVAC engineer, if my design fails, people will just be uncomfortable.

I used to get catalogs from a marketing company despite opting out via dmachoice.org, as they were a member of the Direct Marketing Association.
I would get at least 2 catalogs a week from these people despite letters and phone calls asking them to stop. Well, After that didn't work, I collected all the catalogs over a 3 month period, stuffed them in a large envelope and sent them back to the company postage due. I never received another catalog from them.

If my US ISP knew I had some second hand IP-phones, a second hand computer for a TrixBox FOSS PBX, and a pay-as-you-go IAX/SIP trunk ($5 a month for local phone number, plus 2Â/min), you can bet they would TRY to shut me off since they also offer (crappy) VoIP service. But all I should have to do is say, "fine, I will take my business elsewhere" and they will roll over like a puppy if they care about surviving, anti-competitive-behavior arguments aside.

If you work for an employer who does these sorts of sleazy things, why are you still employed there and not looking for another job? They obviously don't deserve your services. I know, I know, "the economy sucks"...but my point still stands.

Is this a review of the Kindle itself? Or the Kindle experience? Seems to be a bit wishy washy to me.

No idea why my previous comment got cut off, but what I meant to say is that the government could put this "fee" into the federal reserve so they can give more bailouts to the cellular industry.

Maybe Obama is banking on them passing it on to the customers. It means more money into the economy through increased charges. They could just put th

If they "accidentally" block Podsafe Audio http://podsafeaudio.com/ (All Creative Commons licensed content) that will prove how incompetent and underhanded the music industry and the ISPs are. I will be waiting for this to throw back into their faces.