Neither do cartoons. When I was young, two of my favorite cartoons had a whole bunch of people dying (Grendizer and Harlock's french versions), My first FPS was DooM, I played Quake2 and Unreal/UT for countless nights, and still have a thing for a nice deathmatch from time to time.

It doesn't mean I'll go on a rampage and kill people with a chainsaw. People who have problems making the difference between reality and fantasy could also snap by reading a book or any other trigger.

Isn't it like what Compaq did with IBM's BIOS?

Call me old school, but for most of those videos, pictures would do the job (or a better one)

Looking for a how-to for something? Gimme pictures, you can't print a video (for one). I don;t need nor want to watch a video (often with horrible music) when 5 pictures and 10 lines of text does exactly the same thing.

As many people said, that's not a good security practice. People buying those are ordinary users, not tech-savvy like the /. crowd.
So the manufacturer's job is to make sure the first time the device is hooked up it has some kind of minimal security (force the user to change the password for instance)

-Engineers: But it's not secure
-Management: But money...

Probably the way it goes

SO the device should not enable anything else than the ability to login to set it up. Routers had a similar problem couple years ago. They were wide-open (to cut down on customer support costs). It took a while for them to be relativity secure out-of-the-box (except for WPS). Those cameras are not secured by default so it's cheaper for the manufacturer.

So I buy one to let's say monitor my kid, install it, it uses upnp to open a port on my upnp enabled router and Bingo it works. What incentive do I have to go into the config menus? (anyone will be able to access it using the default password as a side effect.)

By default the default password should work only once, to allow you to change it to something secure. But that means more people would have to call tech support, therefore increasing manufacturer's costs...

Depends where the transmitters are. Here If I remove my outside antenna and just use a paper clip in the TV I will still get all the locals.

"Voice isn't even latency sensitive"

Please leave your geek card on your way out

SDHC cards are not in the same ballpark where speed is a concern

Sure, if you're not using a SSD

Yes, in fact I do have a file server here, but an optical drive is useful when you want to watch a DVD without ripping it first. Since a Mac mini is x86, it can run Windows Media Center, MythTV, XBMC, or any other software.

People buying MacBook Airs aren't buying them for heavy crunching, but for portability and battery life, where ARM makes sense. I could see OS X ported to ARM (if they don't already have a port) and software being released as fat/universal binaries, kinda like 68k/ppc under Classic or ppc/x86 under OS X.

"A car costs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars when new. The iPhone - not so much"

With Canadian carrier prices, it's about the same after 2 years...

They crippled it when they removed the optical drive IMO. It made for a really nice and discreet media center. No, adding an external drive won't do it as it kinda defeats the media center idea...