Just think of all the government funding though! The NSA could just whip up another batch of attacks and after laying the groundwork to break the previously up to date servers, they can collect moneys on their hacking work... kind of like if a cop pulled you over and took a baseball bat to your taillight because they think they're immune to oversight.

Cane sugar lobby much against the cheaper corn sugar? Some countries outright ban hemp, a dangerous plant in which lurks a powerful narcotic which may cause murder, insanity, or death! The health benefits of cane sugar over high fructose corn syrup are marginal. The problem with cheap sweetener is that sweetener helps sell products so it gets added to everything. The sugar is bad for you mmmkay?

Well on the path to rivaling Baghdad Bob. http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljoke-iraqinfominister.htm

As far as my not-a-lawyer brain can tell, pretty much anything is "commercial behavior" when it comes to how the US government interprets things. If you want a citation, see the SCOTUS rulings on Wickard v. Filburn and Gonzales v. Raich. So, when a company says it restricts "commercial behavior", I can only assume that means it restricts whatever the hell the company wants it to. As far as I can tell, it's a load of crap to restrict things based on it being "commercial" because everything is "commercial" when it comes to doing things even it's just for your own personal amusement. What I read us that Google is not arguing they should be able to charge different prices for different tiers of service they provide, but they're arguing they should be able to arbitrarily pick and choose how customers use their service and arbitrarily charge customers more for behavior they don't like when using their public utility.

Yikes, what did Activision Blizzard ever do to the OP? In breaking from the mega-corporate-ownership chain going from something like GE-???-Vivendi-Activision, Activision is now its own independent megacorporation not owned by a debt ridden parent that was demanding massive dividends to support its drug addiction. http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/25/activision-buys-back-majority-stake-from-vivendi-for-5-83-billion/ This is good news... If all posts were this venomous, all PS3 / XBONE / WiiU posts would sound like an expletive filled angry drunk rant by a person with turrets syndrome.

It was still a well polished game that probably brought you over 20 hours of entertainment compared to the shovelware feeling you get everytime an EA game crashes your console.

The physical machines you are discussing sound like non-useful hardware processor optimizations. You could of course, design a math or video card co-processor highly optimized to do specific processes, but this is nothing that your general purpose Turing machine isn't capable of with more or less efficiency. Creating a gigantic logic board to do just a specific process isn't really all that practical, as anything that was made for practical processor design would just use a general processor or a type of processor focused on a specific area like video processing. A new jet engine or generator has no purpose in software, and would in fact only exist as conceptual representations of patentable machine at hand. If someone could patent the giant logic board, but not the underlying process, they'll have patented something that no one was going to buy in the first place.

To hell with competition too? They're skirting around the law by effectively giving you a loan, and pretending their rates are fair. The purchase of the phone and the carrier service are two very different things, and there's absolutely no reason the already dwindling number of carriers shouldn't have to compete in an open market for a consumer level product. I mean, if five companies owned all the farmland through an auction with the government and it was illegal for you to grow plants, and because one of the companies was occasionally undercutting the other four the government made laws specifically enforcing contracts with the other four... Why should I have to sign an extensive service contract when I buy a steak?

I've been doing web based Java development professionally for about 7 years. The comparison is more like comparing a Mini Cooper to Toyota, by picking out a Toyota Camry. The Camry performed better as a mid sized sedan, because it is a mid sized sedan. Never mind the completely different types of Toyota cars or the different Mini options.

It's definitely a bit on the clunky side with a Mac... Never mind that half the games they advertise to you don't run on your current system. Look at all these games on sale! XCOM: Enemy Unknown is on sale. You click it. Oh look, this doesn't work on your system. Want to discover a RPG or strategy game? Well you can't filter by OS X client and RPG. I'm sure you'd get less windows users if you treated them the same way. 342 games supporting OS X, unsortable... 1859 PC games, 38 Linux games.

Kind of like a salesperson almost... Look how our one product is better than this one other product in this very narrow set of comparisons. Don't look at the less than shiny details, and especially don't look at the ASUS transformer pads.

I said no to alcohol, because my granddady's an alcoholic. I said no to weed, because I hate stoners and I don't buy into that non-addictive nonsense. Then I was given the opportunity to free-base crack cocaine and I just said take all my money I need my CRACK!!!

This could actually be a giant boon to making life insurance affordable. There's no guarantee any given death will usable organs at the time of death, but if it's mandatory to donate to get low cost - high pay out life insurance, you not only have a clear way of managing where the money will go but you can hedge your valuable organs with the rest of society.

So if we shut down television, radio, and all digital networks - we haven't violated free speech, because people can still speak. If we ban printing presses, we haven't violated free speech because people can still speak. If we ban all writing and recordings, because recorded information allows piracy, we haven't violated free speech because people can still speak. If we ban words and ideas, we haven't violated free speech, because people can still speak. If we ban speech entirely, we haven't violated free speech, because we can still use grunts and gestures. We don't need to be more advanced than dolphins, that's why we should only use grunts and gestures.