And the only possible password will be 12345

Nah, just his iLiver.

Um, the ipad can connect to both HDMI and VGA monitors now. Sure, you do have to buy adapters but you have to do so for many android devices too.

10 trillion USD...Maybe he's Ben Bernanke.

I thought it was that they had 10 years to try to claim more money from you but you only had 3 years to amend your return to try to claim more money from them.

Small merchants would be exempt from this bill as well.

For now. That's how it always begins. They go after the "rich" or the "big corporations" then find some excuse to hit EVERYONE with it.

"China is set to overtake America in scientific output as soon as 2013" sounds like something that would bubble up in a Civ 4 or 5 game.

Simply unplug your modem for 30 seconds and it will

The year is a set of Intel CPU instructions?

1.7T in 1999...3.52T in 2009...1.7 T*2=3.4 T, so even at 3.52 in 2009 it's still more than double. Not as much as he claimed but not wrong at all. $120 billion is nothing to sneeze at.

Why not do a couple passes of pure 0s after the random wiping? Clears out the random bits and gives you an additional load test.

How about the property owner (owner of where the last mile ends) handles their own last mile?

Make it fiber and make it WDM capable so one wavelength can handle TV and another IP connectivity and maybe another be a private link to your neighbor's house.

Instead of huge central offices, make a lot more small nodes for these fibers to terminate at.

ISPs could offer to monitor your physical line for you for an additional $9.95 a month...

If you want to switch, it becomes a simple matter of patching into another panel in the small node.

To make the obligatory automotive analogy, think of this as akin to owning your driveway.

Easy solution: tell people it's kinda like golf scores...the closer to 0 the better.

How about simply making the hold requirement the minimum average length of time it would take an average off the street human to immediately buy and then sell the stock?
Have the SEC round up random samples of people and have them try to buy and then sell stocks as fast as possible on each broker's site. Take the average of that and make that the hold requirement.

"money isn't your primary motivator"...or in other words, "we can manipulate/trick/persuade you into working 80 hours weeks for nothing"