I don't use DVR functionality, so I'm not worried about it recording anything while I'm away. My entire living room entertainment area is on a power strip, which stays OFF unless I decide I want to watch TV or play the Xbox. Such an easy solution to save all that power, just turn the damn thing off. My power hungry PC also gets turned off whenever feasible. I've noticed significant savings on my electric bill this year over the previous year when I was leaving everything on.

The key phrase is, "where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien." This does not mean the Police will be asking everyone who 'looks kinda Mexican' for papers... Behavior and body language will provide probable cause. Illegals get really scared at the prospect of getting caught, whereas a legal immigrant has nothing to fear.

We have a serious illegal immigration problem in this country and if we don't have the ability to even check someones immigration status, we'll never be able to fight it.

Slow clap.

The last thing 'coders' need is another book telling them exactly what practices they should be following. As with most things, the focus should always be on creating a working product first. After you've built something, then you can refine it and clean it up. Too often when the focus is on how it is to be completed instead of actually completing it, the latter never happens. Re-factoring is a much easier task when you already have it working, already know exactly what it should do and when, and have experience using it which helps break it down more intelligently.

I was going to say on a more general level, why is it that 2 days after I read about something it appears on Slashdot?

Just depends how many levels you want to take it. The FCC could require them, via legislation, right?

Do you trust the ISP to identify these routers very quickly, either by traffic analysis or MAC address, and provide a special Quality of Service just for them?

Why wouldn't it be the ISP collecting these statistics (as part of end-to-end monitoring and customer support reduction), and the FCC perhaps requiring that they be given a copy to stay aware of and create these regulations from?

Says the Blackberry fanboi...

Oh no... Someone is WRONG on the internet! Watson received the answers via text file, he did not hear Trebek or visually see the answers.

Nor are ~250 being released of 250,000 enough to digest all of them... /eyeroll at this summary.

+9000, Well said and I couldn't agree more.

A 17" laptop is not a "competing" device to an iPad. I was referring to the mythical 'android tablet.' There are no real competitors for the 'slate' category right now. I trash-talked the iPad too, before I used one.

There isn't one competing device on the market that delivers the user experience that an iPad brings to the table. You must not have used one.

+1, thanks for the story.

+1 for this brilliant post.