maybe they thought they didn't need 30 police officers to arrest Madoff, while they would for a guy with one of the biggest gun collections in the country (assuming).

While web browsing and all that jazz might be relegated to phones and whatnot, even simple things like word processing (things "real people" do) become frustrating without a decent amount of screen real estate and stable input methods. While something like Surface answers (barely) this, it's really "just" a laptop with a flexible keyboard and a touchscreen. Even the most technologically inept person realises that a keyboard is pretty useful for fast typing. I use "the cloud" all the time for personal things, but there have been a few times ( my wifi decides to stop working or my ISP decides to stop working or Dropbox decides to stop working) where I've welcomed my local fallback. Imagining that we're going towards a no-storage future ignores the problems our current infrastructure has.

Google already has video recognition filters in place. Granted it's not nearly as develloped as their music recognition but it exists.

Yelling out generalities doesn't make you any righter.

The problem seems more linked to the fact that they use the same model , even if they use different images. This could be considered the "analysis" part of the book, as referenced in other comments, which can be protected by copyright.

Space-qualified microchips can cost something around 5000 euros. Equivalent chips that are "only" rated for automobile usage(for example), cost 10 cents.

Yeah, being a military dictator with pending charges of murder in Panama and France is pretty harmless.... That being said, the US does not have magical jurisdiction on everything.

least risky doesn't mean risk free. If we reach that point, I think I'd be worrying more about the global economy collapsing with the US' than my bond...

Except, unlike a ponzi scheme, the US government has other forms of revenue ( taxes), meaning it's possible for it to pay back the debts....

I think the word you're looking for is "design" Never let a programmer design your applications

While I don't think the Dead Ringer and Eternal Reward are better, it's true that Backburner and (for example) the Ubersaw are pretty much better than their default weapon. But these weapons are gotten through achievements anyways, so after enough playtime you'll have them.

Why do people just think that anything that doesn't "seem right" is unconstitutional? Not only is the public debt of the US legal, but it is explicitly defined in the constitution(14th amendment), for example.

That being said, you could argue that "looking hispanic" might be too little to be probable cause , thus violating 4th amendment rights, but that depends on the judge.

This could just violate other laws(that aren't necessarily in the constitution) against racial profiling however.

I don't understand why so many people think this sort of tax doesn't make sense. We pay import duties for things bought overseas, this is the state equivalent.


oh wait that doesn't make sense, interstate commerce is supposed to be duty free.

A lot of people might not have access to high school CS classes. And do you expect business majors to have started their own business before their first years? While you find a lot of obsessional people in CS majors, who have been writing code for 10 years, it is not a necessary quality(nor is it sufficient) to have potential in the major.

While this is obviously not aimed at desktops, couldn't this version of windows run on ARM-enabled desktops? If so, then the ideal market for such (low-end, low-consumption computers) would have a lot less incentive to go over to windows 8