I'd contend that raising someone from birth with the expectation that they've been raised to rule would almost guarantee an enormous ego.

Also, raising someone from birth to perform ANY job may get you someone who's better equipped to do that job. I'd expect it would likely also lead to a rather miserable person.

Yeah. Anyone who thinks leadership should be determined by bloodline doesn't spend enough time with their family.

I think I know your problem. You're supposed to look at the monitor.

114 seconds a day * 365 days (life of the brush) works out to about 11 1/2 hours. At $405 that means it costs about $35 per hour of time savings. Not a great investment in time but not horrible, and probably worth it to a fair number of people.

This just made my day. Thank you sir.

The creators of 28 days later tried that tactic and people still whined that zombies aren't supposed to be fast. :P

Really? No ones taken the low hanging fruit of, "Lots of people say they like to role play with their signifigant others," or "My brother says him and his wife do role playing, but he just looks at me funny when I ask what rule set they're using," yet?

Yeap, particularly since there seems to be a bit of a disconnect between creative and logical thinkers. It's pretty rare to run into a truly creative programmer because they tend to be very logical, "follow the yellow brick road," type of people*. Conversely, the most creative people I know tend to shy away from programming because it looks too much like algebra.

While something like this will tend to get flooded with chaff, the possibility of this leading to more creative people being able to create applications is a good thing. Even if this is just the first, limited, step that leads to more robust and flexible options down the road.

*Note: The BEST programmers I know do tend to be both creative and logical. It's still more rare than not.

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Huh... that actually does sound cool. Quick google search brings up a sourceforge project called NoDrives that allows you to hide drives using registry keys. Not sure if that would be a problem or not.

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I just pulled those out of my ass in about 30 seconds and all of them appear to be taken already, but I'm sure someone in MS marketing can come up with something original, or they can license one they like. A new name won't be a huge problem, the bigger problem is any name recognition they had is gone.

Also, DriveSky doesn't solve anything because it was the use of the word Sky in the name that caused the trademark problems.

Umm... the entire reason that the government has different branches is so that there are checks and balances in place. It wouldn't be "some random judge", but the judicial branch of the government IS capable of overturning laws made by the legislative branch. IIRC the US Supreme court has so far refused to rule on the constitutionality of the damages in these types of cases, but it doesn't mean it won't happen eventually and the gap in what the consortiums are asking for in settlement vs. the damages awarded would be relevant.

Can their settlement offers not be used as leverage to show that their actual damage claims are way out of line?

"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over."
- Jack Bergman

Well, that opens up a whole different always online being a stupid PITA for consumers argument. School's internet goes down = no adobe. My internet goes down = no adobe. Also, that's a potential solution at the college level, but what's the likelihood of public schools getting a key server and giving access to students? How old were most people here when their technology habits were formed?