"If you can't make your profit in 5 years, then your product was never very good in the first place."

I could think of several exceptions to that. Music that was way ahead in style for the time and age in which it was produced is just the first one that pops into my head at the moment. Need coffee.

The 4S will be his last Apple phone. He was not pleased to find the newest U2 album suddenly breaking up his electronica mix, and having eaten about 3% of his monthly data plan, all without his permission.

"I guess you'd rather be back in the days when all system graphics had to go through the CPU instead of being offloaded to things like graphics and sound cards."

Take a guess where the APU is taking us.

" both the leading 32-bit architectures also gained more registers and new instructions when moving to a 64-bit architecture."

When AMD introduced x86-64, there were no new instruction sets added, only registers. It even already supported SSE and SSE2, and in fact is GOT RID of some instructions while operating in 64-bit mode, such as saving/restoring of segment registers on the stack, saving/restoring of all registers, decimal arithmetic, BOUND and INTO instructions, and "far" jumps and calls with immediate operands, plus in 64-bit mode the x87 FPU register stack isn't even utilized.

Intel had an actual instruction set change with the Itanium (IA-64)

That's what that "non-interference" bit is about.

You may not care, but your investors are highly likely to. That is really what's driving this.

I was there at the hearing, and I think the summary is pretty far from the true situation.

First, Prof. Gabrynowicz is in the minority in the legal community on this (her response is also to work for international consensus on these issues, which is not going to happen.

Second, the Asteroid Act has been vetted by the State Department (and by a whole bunch of interested parties) and it certainly is in agreement with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (even Prof. Gabrynowicz didn't claim otherwise).

Third, all of the space powers appear to be in agreement with the basic principle expressed by the Asteroid Act - that space mining is a lot like deep sea fishing - you can't claim your fishing hole, but you get to keep what you take.

For a more balanced explanation as to why the Act is needed as a US instantiation of the '67 Outer Space Treaty to clarify the rules for US Corporations, see Dean Larson's WSJ Op Ed (or my own take on it).

I keep an old XP laptop loaded with furry porn, pictures of cows and pigs being slaughtered, BDSM porn, transsexual midget porn, stuff from rotten.com/ogrish like beheadings, gential mutilation, etc., set on random rotate every second for the desktop with a nice fading transition, everything locked except the remote assistance tool, and when they call I put that machine live and let them in.

The extortion begins, and then they see something that invariably offends the piss out of them while they're forced to watch a constantly-changing desktop wallpaper they can't stop, and the extortion ends with me laughing in their ears.

Endless entertainment. I even got a "You're the sickest thing existing on this planet." from some chick that was playing the scam.

I lol'd hard at that one.

The Germans also had the Winter Charity (Winterhilfswerk), which printed millions of books for German soldiers, both propaganda and stories, humor, songbooks, etc.

I wouldn't be too surprised if the Brits and the Russians did something similar.

Pepsi might sue. I don't think Crystal Light is going to do much of anything!

Well, starting with Nixon, one political party has made political hay with "litmus tests" for the appointment of politically correct judges, with opposition and voting out (where possible) of any judges who are "soft on crime." Is it any surprise that our judiciary is now full of political hacks?

No.

If police want to seize anything, they should charge the citizen with the appropriate crime, and take him or her to court. Anything else is unconstitutional BS.

Yes, not having the proceeds go to charity just turns it into an open invitation for corruption (and any PD that depends on these funds for operating expenses is certainly corrupt), but the problem is deeper than that.

They'll have to claim it's me, as I'm not going to just up and post a picture for you to see! If it is me, I'm honest enough to own up to it.

Until someone posts the nude with a very specific and identifiable mark... :D

Of course, that wouldn't stop 'I am Spartacus' from happening.

Yea, I bet the wording seems weird, but it's wholly accurate. I laugh about the accident all the time.