Yo dawg! I heard you like breakthroughs so we put a breakthrough in your Super Breakthrough! enjoy ya Super Breakthrough Breakthrough!

American english, British english, Australian english or....? English has plenty of dialects of it's own but that has nothing to do with English being on the "interwebs" the same way Chinese dialects have nothing to do with its success or failure as the primary language of the internet.

I love how you know the results of your actions before you have even taken them. So say the most common dozen languages on the planet and NONE of them would ever open up anything useful to you? I guess I will need to communicate this in a way you will understand.

Pot.
Kettle.
Black.

Oh. and do share your powers of precognition with the rest of us.

steps to keep them safe? you mean by having a smaller market share than microsoft which makes them a smaller and less inviting target? Sure. they lack the gaping hole that is flash. Oh wait that only applies to iPod/Phone/Pads. Fact is Macs are no more secure than Windows is. There just any viruses for them... YET.

If you FINISHED reading the article...you would know
a) only Mozilla staff and the ONE 3rd party person who informed them ever downloaded the file
b) it was a PARTIAL representation. All accounts were inactive
c) all the passwords were wiped and the file pulled.

this is non-news really.
1) The only 3rd party download informed mozilla so they obviously have no malicious intent.
2) unused accounts.
3) no way to use those passwords since they were wiped... the one person who downloaded the passwords COULD try and login to other sites with the same email and combo and thats about it. (see 1)

Dead? Chances are if the electric motor is the only thing running, you would be hit at at best 15mph which is basically the issue here since we are talking about parking lot speeds. Not some idiot ignoring a red do not walk sign in the intersection because he can't hear a car coming and you in your EV at 35mph. This is a much bigger problem for the drivers than it is for pedestrians as they are the ones that will be hit paying for insurance/lawsuit etc. Not to mention the possibilities of perfectly healthy (not blind or deaf) scammers getting "hit" so they can drop lawsuits on people (if you have an EV you gotta have money!)

For the record I want my car to have TIE fighter laser sounds (pew pew!) that or the legalese explaining why these sounds are coming from my car. "This engine noise brought to you by bill ___. Electric vehicles are now legally required to emit blah blah blah"

They have ulterior motives then. Like bypassing the Great firewall of China! That said, their rates and speeds are pretty top notch!

and all it takes is "farmville" to turn them back on.

It really doesnt matter what he negotiated the percentage to be... since he loses 100% of the money. The fact that the scammer let him take an extra 3% for free shoulda tipped him off that something was wrong. When its too good to be true and it still gets better, you are an idiot if you don't have safeguards in place. Like say ask for it in a cashier's check (which will get an excuse or refusal from the scammer) . Or tip off the bank(s)/police on both sides so they can catch the scammer (though I'm not sure how seriously any of them take reports like this).

But your Honor! this trial would cause undue burdens on me and my Farm!

This boy will be looking for buried treasure to get him through the other half of his life.

I felt pretty much the same way. Unfortunately by the time they finished picking Jurors I was already out. As a Computer Science graduate and a current programmer/tech support/QA I'm actually pretty decent at handling people. I would have gotten a second degree/minor in geology/philosophy/psychology but at the time it wasn't financially feasible to even pick up one for a minor.

Unfortunately now my job is so fast paced (cause its a TINY company), I would most likely get fired cause of all the project deadlines I'd miss even if jury duty was 2 weeks.

I'd love for there to be a full time profession as juror as I think it would be alot more mentally stimulating with the range of stuff and it would be beneficial to society.

Most of my professor's had "Dates and times may change without advance notice." on the syllabus. and usually that was for the benefit of the students eg delaying a deadline :P. Then again, our school had a ZERO tolerance policy. you get caught cheating you get tossed out. Not you fail a class. You get ALL your previous classes nullified as well.

Isnt the Kinect requiring game + Kinect indicitive of the Xbox360 Kinect using market?

Its not like people are going to buy GAMES without an Xbox to play them... The only way you would have a problem is when people purchase their initial Kinect without games from one location then buy games in another.

Anyhow, as far as I can see, MS basically used reverse psychology to get a bunch of smart people to do their work for them.
a) the Kinect makes money for every sale. It ISNT being sold at a loss. (Non Xbox users = larger market = more market share in a possibly new niche in the movement controlled interface)
b) Theres no such thing as bad publicity. Especially if its just playing into the existing MS image of we get to do what we want in terms of locking down our hardware. If it really becomes problematic, they have been enforcing it previously. If it isnt problematic, people are talking about it, experimenting with it. That can only help sales not hurt them. I mean the XBox had the red ring of death issue so widespread but how many people have you heard of giving up on Xbox as a platform? Certainly not enough to make a dent in MS' profit margin or the Kinect would have been abandoned or just kept as a proof of concept like the MS surface
c) hardware hackers will probably come up with stuff MS hasnt thought of. aka new uses for the Kinect.

Does ANYONE seriously think its China? The US is how many TRILLIONS into debt? Who are we borrowing from? China could practically cripple the US if they wanted to at this point. Most of the money that we spent on the war that we DONT have was borrowed from China. China also manufactures a good proportion of US goods. China also exports a good amount of US goods. http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balace/c5700.html#2010

and if you look there, our trade deficit started small in ... 1985 and has just grown EVERY SINGLE YEAR. If they wanted to screw us, economically they could do it and pretty easily.