Server location should have anything to do with jurisdiction. It all has to do with where the company is located ie incorporated. If the Federal Government wanted to sieze server property I would see them filing an injunction against the company. ie give up your servers or we will arrest your operating officers for treason which is punishable by death. Worse case scenario of course. As far as the NSA etc, the servers have to be connected to the mainland someway.

of course obligatory IANAL

you know what, a younger man can learn a lot from an older woman. Older woman have no hangups, or false hopes. They are usually independent and take care of their own baggage. Shoot check out Lady Chatterley's Lover. I say go for it learn all you can (including suppressing your gag reflex) then turn around and use your ill gained knowledge on the hot chick next door.

NASCAR ? F1 is not the eng all of racing it is one aspect. If you want more driver friendly racing then go WRC, extreme machines 24 hour Lemans. Nature vs Car then select the Dakar Rally, and if you wanna drink beer well nascar ofcourse

I always thought that with terrorists becoming the next mortal enemy the best way for an to fight woudl be to shoot a few rockets filled with #4 ball bearings into space. You kill communication (comm sat), mapping(GPS), and intelligence (spy sat), and force them to fight man to man.

I can just see it now, just like how wall street controls cooperations, putting $$$ in front of quality, and innovation. The same will happen to hollywood. Not that that doesn't happen now, it would just be worse.

Just because someone doesn't follow your logic doesn't make them dumb. There could be a variety of reasons, a few being, A.) adult content isn't worth that much when opportunity cost is taken in to consideration. What's the point in pleasing a few depraved nerds when you can indoctrinate an entire generation from grade school. B.) This could be from a lobbyist stand point. Apple lobbies some senator for support with the educational system and there stipulation is get rid of the porn. At this point in cooperate management nothing comes down to being dumb or dumb.

Isn't that what opensuse really is ? free beta testers. I've been running suse now since their 6.0 version (switched from redhat because they were the only ones that supported my g200 gfx card). I've always noticed that Dell Hardware (which we run) ran the 9.0 version while the 10.0 version of opensuse was available. One day I got smart figuring I would download the fully patched 9.0 version of suse being the cheap bastard that I am. Turns out it didn't exist on any mirrors anywhere.

ok, aaand how is this any different from what happens now ?

"......Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours. Those shutdowns will come without warning."

I'm wondering what frequency this will oscillate at and if this will potentially effect people proned to seizures ?

This is actually true, but it depends on the car. Most newer cars allow a high start idle to reach the necessary oil pressure which is essential in preventing early bearing failure. If the car is properly broken in running it in park for long periods is ok. however most cars when started without a blip on the gas cannot sustain proper oil pressure for safe bearing operation. This will shorten the engine life dramatically

http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

This bot net crap has to stop, I wish they would do that here. Disconne.....{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER")

I always thought it interesting that people think equilibrium is a ecosystem free of humans. Aren't humans a part of the ecosystem. True equilibrium is our food source dying, followed by world starvation. The environmental push has nothing to do with the environment but is in fact human preservation. Let's call it exactly what it is.

Your absolutely right, now move this conversation to Detroit ... or mexico or wherever it is that they make cars. The engineers get paid bank, the programmer who buys a no brand multi use controller off a radio shack shelf and programs it using 50 lines of basic code gets paid crap. Fact is computers are still not a part of true car culture. For the record just because you have a dressed down garmin heads up doesn't make it computer controlled.

Shoot the capacitors in my 94 galant still explode periodically because they were the cheapest parts Mitsubishi could get.

  Apples OS is based on NeXT and BSD, wrapped in a fuzzy window manager. I know your not trying to say apple just made this wonderful application. Same thing for the iPod They were just the first to put an mp3 player in a friendly format. Even the mp3 had existed for years prior to that. I'm sure your going to say the iPhone was all there also ? I love the company to death but what they do well is packaging not software or hardware.

I say the only valid comparison is listening to the live music, vs the digital format. This way you compare to the original and your not just saying which sounds better (which is subjective). I once worked with a audio system designer and everything was tested using analogue formats with various types of music preferably classical because of it's range in sound.