Anyone writing scripts that don't use parametrized stored procedures for the database or Linq needs to find a new line of work.

In the US you could certainly claim damage and sue in small claims court. Sony will almost certainly settle (with a gag order to try to keep it from spreading). I've considered it, but honestly I haven't found Linux on my PS3 particularly useful. I'm sure if I upgraded the hard drive and wanted to do extensive video encoding I would but I haven't. I spent a great deal of time tweaking the frame buffer to fill my TV without over scanning, and then never used it again.

I have decided to return any unopened Sony products I still have (Car stereo for boat) and buy another brand.

Your right, no excuse, but an unloaded gun isn't particularly useful, so an adequately secured gun need not be unloaded.

When in my home my gun is loaded on my person (in a holster) or loaded in the safe, never left on a table

When using a pistol in a self defense situation you might have less than a second to react. The safety must be simple enough to keep the gun useful for defense, or else they will only be useful for premeditated acts.

Not all guns have a safety switch. Now are you saying it's ok to leave a gun in the reach of a child as long as it has the safety set? Didn't think so. Safety's are not child safety devices, they are there to prevent the trigger from moving when you don't want it to, such as a dropped gun (modern guns have additional or alternate mechanisms for this), not to stop children.

My SIG P239 fell out of a holster right on the hammer, but since it was a well designed firearm it didn't go off. I too disposed of the holster that day.

The hammer took cosmetic damage and the tile had a visible chip, but the firing pin block worked as designed.

If it were cocked, my 18 month old could pull the trigger. Those kids are strong.

Now, on the other hand, a loaded firearm is a temptation for any child. A 3 year old isn't capable of understanding that something could be so dangerous. I doubt the child thought it was a Wii controller, I can't leave ANYTHING on the table without the children going for it.

My first thoughts! With SQL server licenses as expensive as they are you can throw a lot of very expensive hardware at them (an array of 10 SSDs anyone) to get the most out of a single or dual CPU license.

Sure, people are stupid, careless, naive, etc. Having stuff STOLEN shouldn't be a consequence. Do you steal kids bikes because they forget to lock them? Honesty is important in a society. Assholes who think that being smarter or in a position of power gives them the right to take from everyone else (think Wallstreet) gave us our current economic climate, well that and the greedy naive people who believed them when they said real estate was going to keep going up forever.

There were ways to connect the TiVo via broadband back then, they needed to make it supported, but it was as simple as plugging in an Ethernet adapter and putting codes in the dialing prefix.

Expense is another part, it has always been way more expensive to use TiVo than the cable company. TiVo should have focused on cost reduction more, without making it a light service. They probably could have indroduced ads earlier (Your cable company depends on ads) to make it cost competitive, but they were busy trying to deliver the best experience and weren't considering cost as a primary objective.

I think the DVR was a rather obvious technology at this time. I had spent a few hours here and there to get my computer to do exactly the same thing for a couple of years. I didn't have the resources to do it cost effectively or in a user friendly way. The fact that Replay and TiVo came out at the same time highlights that it was a matter of computing power catching up and normal technological evolution. Startups like TiVo and Replay are going to have a hard time competing with the big companies like Scientific Atlanta and Motorola when the barriers to entry are so low.

Is your post serious? It sounds like a sound argument for this law, except the trust your local law enforcement. I generally do, but I don't feel I will always be able do do so. These aren't powers that can be easily taken back later. And I know from the way gun owners are treated in some localities that some parts of the country have a LONG ways to go before there can be the trust you talk about.

So what you are saying is the majority of us loose no matter what the system? Figures.

Without ranting too much, I think our capitalist system is the least bad of all the alternatives.

I gave blood in North Dakota. Their mosquitoes are at least 6x the size of the ones here in Texas.

1x is a CDMA technology (1xRTT). I assume you are referring to EDGE which has comparable real world performance to 1x.

I believe 1x was upgradable to EVDO without replacing as much equipment, and certainly doesn't require splitting up the spectrum to run two networks. UMTS, AT&T's 3G network, has to be build out with additional equipment and requires dedicated spectrum. As a result, AT&T has to spend a lot more money for each cell, and will leave most rural coverage with the good enough EDGE.

Where I live AT&T is ok. My coverage at my office has recently declined, but AT&T has coverage (edge) in places where Verizon and Sprint don't have any.