The quality of Ask /. has hit a new low...

http://shop.skype.com/webcams/tvwebcams/tely-hd/ + http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-32-X322BV-HD/15739136

When the slashdot poll is directly linked by some idiot marketer to the bound to fail offshoot site.

...but they really suck at playing Tetris.

They not only have to pay for bandwidth... they also have to pay for towers, transceivers, the real estate the towers sit on, the installers and technicians who maintain them, the lawyers who fight the locals who protest the towers, not to mention all the other corporate expenses to provide the service. Do I agree the price is too high? Yes. But just arguing that they markup bandwidth charges is ignorant.

Seriously, eating a Big Mac from the drive thru takes more concentration from the road than talking on the cell phone. This is just ignorance by the NTSB. I don't see them trying to ban drive thrus!

The alert came across the local access cable station we were tuned to. The video was successful, but the audio was horrible. You could tell he was talking, but the audio was garbled, almost like other stations audio was breaking into it.

I have an always-open .txt file I keep running in Notepad all day... my notes go there.

So you build a hotel. You rent out it's rooms to patrons. You get income from your creation, which you own.

Now your hotel passes it's 50th birthday. Should your rooms still cost money?

By your argument, after the hotel is of a certain age, it should become public, and anyone should be able to use it, for free. What is that, you say? Build another hotel if I want to continue to earn income?

A performance or artwork has as much potential value as any tangible object. To those who say otherwise and call artists slackers, I call you freeloaders.

Flame away, but I'm just speaking MHO.

It would have taken the Army 8 years and $100's of millions of dollars for the US to do this. *Sigh* We really should take a lesson in innovation.

So let me get this straight... instead of taxing by the gallon used, which rewards drivers of economical vehicles who use less fuel and therefore pay less tax, they propose to tax by the mile, so a gas guzzler driving 50 miles a day is taxed the same as a Prius driving the same amount? Yes, this makes a TON of sense!

-Signed, a 17.5 mpg 1999 Ford Explorer V8 driver who drives 50 miles round trip for work every day.

"A Revolution Every Now And Then Is A Good Thing..." Until then...

We in southeastern Virginia are normally offended when coupled with Northern Virginia :)

...That was on Saturday.