. . . or your family doesnt represent the average SMS's sent a day?

I was going to post exactly this. With my work now done, its time for an early lunch.

You missed the point of his post.

Not all cars, driver agnostic, can go the same speeds due to the mechanical condition of the car. Im not talking about a Ferrari versus a '83 Ford escort in terms of top speed, but stopping time of said car if all moving at the same speed. Or delving further, at speed X, are all cars capable of safely swerving out of the way or braking in time in case of an emergency? Older and lesser quality cars will differ. Or another metric is how tuned up is your car? Is it liable to breakdown mid transit? Regulating speeds of car goes way beyond the driver's wants, but the mechanical capabilities of each car.

The application to normal laptops probably wasnt on their forefront rather than the ability to put stronger computer power in smaller (or new) places.

Which isnt to say its not translatable, but I immediately think of the applications in things such as medical devices, autos, and hand held devices that can better utilize this.

I think I read 75% of the things here elsewhere around a day in advance.
Slashdot isn't (well, in its prime) where you come for breaking news, it's where you go (again, back in its prime) for great intellectual technological discussions.

And thats not the worst part. You can't change your PW, and they only offer WEP.

People pay into their own unemployment, that isnt tax subsidized. You're thinking about welfare/foodstamps/ just about every other public assistance program except unemployment.

Exactly.

Furthermore, how did he think this episode would end? I didnt RTFA (ofcourse, this is still Slashdot) but I wager he couldnt have made too much money extorting before the the Feds started tracking him. Stupid stupid stupid criminals.

Yes, im clearly advocating doing that. Let me know when you've calmed down and we can continue to discuss this like adults.

Everything you exactly described is already what we have in our current working society. The problem is the human variable and the innate ability to abuse any given system.

People want to implement controls, restrictions, checks and balances on things such as Welfare, Medicaid, Food stamps. But there will never be 100% compliance. There are always diminishing returns on systems with such a varying variable as the human. Even a mathematical model without the human element has diminishing returns. There will always be pockets in society content with living in squalor on what welfare checks will provide, but dont let TV talking points fool you, these people are minute when compared to the total population. Few people want to live on bread crumbs and even fewer enjoy a life of nothingness, but those people will always be a part of our society.

If the result ends in an economy saving money from less people in revolving door prisons and turning that into generating tax revenue, then why not? Where is the benefit of life imprisonment?

Also

rofl?
Besides, the very same mentality you are displaying is why felons cant catch a break. Congrats to adding to the problem without offering any viable solution.

Goodness forbid we try to better ourselves by bettering our society. You guys have no problem letting these people rot in revolving door jails rather than letting them right their wrongs and contribute.

BUT DERP, GIVE NON CONVICTS A CHANCE!!

They have a chance! FFS, making one mistake should not doom you to a life of menial living. I swear being in such a capitalistic society creates some of the most selfish people.

Im glad im not the only one that raised an eyebrow at 100TB of movies maybe 10TB?

The thing that jumped out at me was your point of Big Entertainment continuing this greedy war and yet you've (supposedly) amassed 100TB's of which less than half you've paid for. Netflix is $10 a month, my cable package lets me DVR all I want for less than $40 a month, then theres Hulu, RedBox and a bunch of other services i've never heard of but are equally as cheap. I have an easy 2TB's of movies over the past 10 years i've accumulated and i'll admit theres a whole bunch ive never even unzipped, not to mention watched. I think you're just being a greedy hoarder, sorry.

You forgot to add the spoiler tag!

I am glad that someone else caught this glaring irony while reading the summary . . . .