Let me get this straight. Both Verizon and Comcast have lines running across the back of my property in the right of way. Since obtaining the rights to this passage they have each added massive amounts of programming which I have never been compensated for. Looks like it is time to started adding up a bill for each of them. Also, since they have no cable neutrality, I am claiming the right to continuous deep inspection of their programming to make sure they stick to their original agreements for use of my property.

>There's nobody to identify - there's nobody to criticize. They like to stay in the shadows and let their
> lawyers do their work, and the lawyers can claim that they're just "representing their client" so
>you can't even point to them.

It is true these type of organizations would like to operate with impunity and with no personal accountability. The way to counter this is to shine a light on the people who are really responsible and keep that light shining. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Williams_(songwriter) is their fearless leader who a long time ago wrote such songs as "We've Only Just Begun" and "(Just An) Old Fashioned Love Song". Something to consider (or not) when choosing a wedding song.

As an engineer, my work can be heard on television and various other communication devices. With shrinking engineering budgets, I wish I could depend on people being forced to send me moneys in order to pay my mortgage, feed my kids and upgrade my computer. I have a totally middle class income, and no-one is doing anything to guarantee my milking locked in users based on past work. My engineering and other friends are all professionals, and we all need to pay for groceries. The next time you use something I might of had a hand in creating, consider that you don't have to continue support my spending habits based on something I did a long time ago. If you are really passionate about doing this, feel free to donate my moneys you owe me to the EFF instead, because I do wish to share my earlier work with anyone. Also, keep in mind creativity in your industry too was freely shared for most of the history of humanity until the culture barons started to try to privatize and control everything artistic and musical.

North Korea deployed robots a long time ago. They are called North Koreans.

What's more interesting is if you take the first letters of each word in their mission statement and parse them correctly, you get 'UPC is a cat' followed by a list of acronyms for all sorts of shadowy secret organizations and technologies...

upc is a cat dto ados dod in a pta wd cfs mco io tea ia de UA foa i cad tst oa

Sadly Nuts and Volts is dumbed down compared to the old Radio-Electronics mags. I let my subscription expire after only a year because it became too repetitive. Too much stuff about how to make LED's blink and the like. I don't think there is a good general electronics hobby mag anymore.

and the event horizon should just disappear due to Hawking_radiation and Black_hole_evaporation leaving a naked singularity.

I hope local TV stays. I am on the verge of ditching the huge sewage pipe AKA Verizon FIOS and just go with local digital TV, internet options, and maybe re-activate my C-Band Sat system. Verizon FIOS has a zillion channels of which almost all of it is garbage programming and the rest is near un-watchable due to 5 minute+ commercials.

Corporations are not human, they have no intelligence, they aren't even alive in any meaningful sense. If companies could ditch the actual end consumer entirely, they would.

This is very well said and so true.

Seems like most of the web pages now are written to snare search engines more that to attract readers. For a good example, check out this SEO patheticized home page www.spawb.com, first with flash turned on, then with flash turned off.

I figured he would have took credit for creating fusion when that new star appeared when his son was born.

I can confirm this too. On Network Solutions hosting. It hit the index.html in the root directory and index.shtml in my awstats directory. I replaced the index.html and it hit it again within 30 minutes. I then disabled all the .htpasswd's, and moved the awstats and vti_pvr dirs. It hasn't come back yet. It was easy to detect, viewing source with firefox showed the problem. It would insert a long script after the <body> tag that started like this...

              var EP="476f4365785d43595a08496d697a667

> What tools do you use that spice up your scripts on the Linux or Unix platforms?

sh -x

Can I am assume you are a software engineer?

Sorry, I did mean 100W equivalent. I only was loaned the LED bulb for one night so I didn't get to measure the power. However, I did compare it to both a CFL and an incandescent floodlight. The color was dead on with the incandescent, and better than the CFL. It was brighter than both the CFL and the incandescent. All the bulbs claimed a warm room color temperature (3800C ?). The LED lamp was unmarked and no information was volunteered as to the source or the price. The LED lamp apparently had one yellow looking emitter inside the glass envelope. After leaving the LED on for more than an hour I could feel no temp rise on the bulb itself and very little around the base. I suspect there will be a huge power savings not just from the LED bulb, but also from the AC not having to remove heat generated by incandescent bulbs in the summer time. This wasn't your typical Home Depot LED lamp.