Uh, well technology and the fact that Oil has been highly profitable have created more incentives to extract resources from less abundant and traditional sources. What does need to happen is that subsidies for the Oil/Gas industry need to be eliminated and they need to play by the same rules as any other company with respects to land use, reclamation and pollution. The Oil/Gas industry shouldn't however be targeted because it's not "ECO Friendly" with punitive regulations because as far as I can see, oil and natural gas will be necessary for a long time in this country.

wouldn't that be Methane? Besides it is a segwayinto the new EPA rules for Oil and Gas producers so Chili will have to be included in the category.

who watches the watchers?

Sorry, Hector spilled the floor cleaner again. He won't let it happen again.

"Imaging printer technologist" that can charge me $1000/hr to generate 3d models of my tumors.. I don't think most doctors or hospitals will let you DIY.

Yeah they don't allow it but it doesn't say they won't do it to you. It's a case of hypocrisy so just don't use CNET or Download.com.

Why? Patents are a tangible asset. Specifically Apple didn't inherit the patent, they acquired a company that was in the process of obtaining a patent.

obviously none they are willing to share.

Ask how it went in LA. Also, does it bother anybody that "Khan Academy" popped up again?

Well with ToS and people clicking on "I Agree" I'm sure that CNET's cadre of lawyers have thought of that in advance including the Sony Rootkit case. It's not the fact of what they're doing to you, it's the fact that you allowed it to happen in the first place that makes this even more infuriating. If you take that in tandem with "we're providing a *free* service" then I'm not sure if this would get to class action status nor very far past the first hearing on the case.

• Plaintiff: You installed this malware crap on my system now it won't boot and it installed Chrome as my default browser and this )(@*!)(# Ask toolbar!
• Defendant: In our terms of service, you'll notice we said that "we may install other utilities and modify your system to in order to allow your selection to play properly." We have determined that Chrome and these other pieces are crapware are necessary. You accepted our ToS..
• 
  Judge: Dismissed

When UAC pops up and says "Allow this" you don't know everything you're getting, or maybe you do.

YMMV

or maybe work with search engine providers (you hearing this Google) so they prefer the sources over CNET when ranking search results. Yeah I know CNET pays Google money but paid results like this are what point naive users erroneously to Download.com in the first place.

See Ubuntu ;-)

Craptacular!

Download.com used to be a great place, but it's like a dilapidated, crime infested neighborhood now; don't go there.

I stopped paying for the MSDN sub that gave me Visual Studio, it's more expensive than just buying it. I'm also a bit perturbed at MS for getting rid of TechNet subscriptions which to me were more valuable. As for printers, yes the printer I have is only 4 years old and does quite nicely. Unfortunately the vendor decided not to provide Windows 8 support natively so I'm on the fringe in terms of making it work with Windows 8. For what I have, it'll be about $400-$500 to replace it when I go to Windows 10 but that's planned. My point was, that upgrading the operating system shouldn't necessitate upgrading everything around it. I shouldn't have to buy new subscriptions, licenses. There should be some backward compatibility that supports at least the prior release's eco-system.