I know this is probably wouldn't fly, but what the hell:

When you sign up for a service the service provider agrees to send you an email every day that says:

"By government order your materials or service with us is under surveillance and/or investigation, we are required to turn over all the data we have about you."

Then when the government does send your service provider a notice to look at your stuff and it includes one of those gag orders that says you can not inform the target of the surveillance, the daily emails have to stop.

You as a customer can then deduce whatever you want to about the cessation of the daily notice emails.

If you go CDR media, you should use CD+R as the +R standard has better error correction during burning than the -R standard.

That is not a joke, there actually is a difference between the two.

I don't know the answers to your questions, nor did I know about the system in your link.

All I know about is all the crap they put me through as a small business with privacy and data collection and what I see on the news about the government blocking a lot of the data requests from other countries.

Thanks for the link.

Switzerland, which is not in the EU and is very strict about privacy.

Yes, their banking sector is starting to crack a bit, but they are being dragged kicking and screaming and it is not even clear if they will be turning over data. Most of the banks, unless you are a giant customer I would guess, are just refusing accounts to US citizens. I know they closed my crappy bank account.

There are several hosting services in Switzerland that offer privacy protecting hosting and services.

When did you first hear of podcasting and why didn't you file your infringement suit immediately instead of waiting until many people were already using the technology?

That example is used by the prof the in the classic "Don't talk to the Police" youtube video linked to above.

That demo was not augmented reality (at least the first half, it was too boring to watch the whole thing). It looked like a display system at best.

The user had to pick their location from a globe they could spin. Then they pick their home offices? What did that have to do with augmenting the reality of them standing on a stage wherever the conference was looking at three well known people.

Augmented reality is about looking at the world and having the computer augment what your eyes are seeing. It could be mundane stuff like yelp or tripadvisor ratings above stores or hotels you are looking at, or something cool like tracking the pulse of a person you are looking at to see how they react to questions you ask. It could be anything overlayed on your current scene that would augment the information you eyes can normally collect.

Awkward gestures to pick a location from a globe and read a newspaper that has nothing to do with your current reality is not it.

I like how they pointed out the user could see the people and scene on stage as well as the overlayed graphics we were seeing on the screen. What use would that be to see people standing around or whatever the scene while I tried to read a newspaper?

They should just be honest and call them a 3d glasses based display with a kinect glued to the top frame of the glasses for input.

Canon must not mind people hacking on their firmware. There is another project, the CHDK project, that allows you to replace the firmware on most Canon point and shoot cameras, again coming up with great features not originally on the camera. Things like:
RAW, bracketing, full manual control over exposure, zebra mode, live histogram, grids, motion detection and Scripting using ubasic and Lua scripts.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

It is the reason I will only buy canon cameras.

The reason the repubs have stalled this is because they are happy to let it be privatized.

They have seriously tried to shut down NOAA because they wanted to privatize weather data collection in the past.

The most insulting part of his statement is that a hands on trades type job is just for the less academically adept.

While I am partial to electrician work, a trades type job is great for just about anyone.

I am actually getting out of software development full time and working toward becoming a professional electrician because I am very into renewable energy and would love to work outside installing solar and wind equipment.

Electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, heavy equipment operator, landscaper, etc are all great jobs for a person who wants to do them, academically adept or not. Suggesting they are only for "less"er people is insulting, stigmatizing and shameful.

Language and application support email lists.

I had a perl project, I monitored the perl dev list and then mentioned that I needed some one for a job and fully described the job.

I had 2 or 3 super high quality people reply off list and I selected one and everything went great and I had good support on that code for the life of the application.

I have done things like this on several occasions and it has never failed to work out well. And I feel like I support the community.

Unlike elance and odesk, which I did not have a lot of success with for the projects I wanted to do.

And yet, where I live, the city buses are timed to drop people off at the train station at just before the train arrives, so a city 100k can efficiently use the train to get to their jobs about 1 hour away, where, get this, more trams and buses are there when the train arrives so they can spread out into the major city and get to their jobs.

The city buses all along the route of the train (which also basically follows the highway) arrive at times for people to make their trains.

Works great in a country of 10 million, not sure why Americans can't seem to get it to work.

I just want let people know, if you have a local community workshop or hacker space, I strongly encourage you to check it out. I am lucky to have two in my area, one of the 8 TechShops around the US and a smaller, more community driven workshop (Maker-Works).

I found both to be amazing resources as far as tools, classes and community support are concerned.

I am one of those very introverted people, I do not go out much at all socially and really avoid going out in general if I can. I am also pretty geeky, programmer, hardware hacker type.

I was amazed at how friendly, accepting, encouraging and similar to myself everyone at these two shops were. I really could not get over it. I went to one of the meetings at the local community hackerspace shop and literally felt like I was in a room full of people very very much like myself for the first time in my life (I'm 45).

I can not say enough good things about these places. I realize my experience is only at two of them, but really, even if there is a 50/50 chance one of them in your area might be as great of an environment as the two in my area, it is really worth it to go check them out.

What the government entity is doing here is making sure that one company cannot leverage its monopoly position in one area (operating systems) to prevent competition in another area (web browsers), otherwise known as "leveling the playing field."

No one is be disadvantaged, one company is prevented from being abusive of its market position in an unrelated area to web browsers.

That is exactly what a regulator should do, ensure a competitive market to increase consumer choice which will then determine who succeeds in that particular market.