What if I am, say, using the phone's GPS, or making a hand's free call? Also, does anyone else have a problem with cops peering into your private vehicle to see what you are doing?

I have 5 credit cards and I have never thought, gee, these take up too much room in my wallet.

More Microsoft bias.

I don't think most people get it. The Xbox is not a game console, it's a media center. It plays movies through Hulu and Netflix, and Xbox Live, and will now play cable TV. The interactive ads will be through these channels, not games, duh.

If Word is underpowered, what word processor(s) do you consider fully powered?

The issue is not whether these groups deserved their tax exempt status. The issue is that the IRS only targeted conservative TEA Party groups after Obama, the head of the IRS, said he would target conservative groups. The other issue is that the IRS asked for information about the members, the members' families, and the members' personal information such as email and other correspondence, that the IRS doesn't normally request. To an objective outside observer, it appears the IRS may have been used to harass Obama's political enemies and gather information that could be used against them during the election. This is clearly wrong.

It is the software. Skeinforge and pronterface, which is what I use for my Solidoodle, look like high school programming projects from 1995. It is too difficult to do simple things. For instance, this morning, I was trying to figure out how to print without a raft (the bottom layer touching the pad). I'm still looking how to do it. It should be a simple check box in the Options dialog.

As for 3D printing, it will take over just like regular printing. I am already printing replicas of lost and broken pieces around the house. Instead of throwing things out, I can print a piece and give a toy or other device a new life. It is also spawns creativity. My 8 year old daughter has learned Sketchup after seeing my printer in action. Her first project is to print furniture for her doll house.

Once these devices are able to print metal and ceramic, brick and mortar hardware stores will be obsolete.

I agree. They could get around this by having more auto-saves so I don't have to do a whole series of kills over and over again to get to the point where I'm having trouble.

I thought I read Half Life 3 for a second!

We won't have to work and culture will flourish.

The wind at your back and a star to sail by.

Seriously though, I would log onto Cruising World Magazine's website and start reading through their back catalog for articles on how to prepare for blue water sailing.

I would have at minimum: gps plotter with charts, radar, vhf radios (one for boat, handheld for dingy), ssb radio, cell phone, laptop, ipod, watermaker, and good instruments for wind/boat speed, etc. Make sure you have redundant equipment that can work without electricity or handelds that work on local batteries.

By the way, don't bring a gun, unless you don't want to be allowed into any port. Guns are forbidden in 99% of countries if you are entering by boat and they will immediately make you leave if they don't throw you in jail first. Bring a Crocodile Dundee knife, instead.

Government is the lesser evil than business? I don't think so. Business has competition and must voluntarily enter into a transaction with you. Government is a monopoly and can require you to act on pain of imprisonment and death.

"StrongVPN", not Stong, jeez

I use StongVPN to login from Europe for my household (3 power users) to get Netflix, Hulu, etc. I don't know how this would scale to hundreds of people, but StrongVPN's customer support is very good. Every time I chat with the support staff, there is someone there (24 hours, I am on Paris time), and they have taken care of my problem. They seem to have lots of servers so you could probably get the bandwidth you need. Good luck!

I haven't seen a DVD in years thanks to Netflix andHulu streaming, and software downloads.

It's obvious most of the people on this forum have no children. I had a similar circumstance where my child rang up $500 in in-app purchases. When I bought the 99 cemt app, I read all the fine print and it said nothing about in-app purchases. Keep in mind, this is a child's game where you run around finding jewels or something. You can level up using found jewels. However, at some levels, in the same screen, you can purchase the level up using real money instead of jewels. The only difference is a dollar sign instead of the jewel icon next to your item. This is misleading, especially to a child that has no concept of money.

Even worse, I tried to get a refund from the game developer and they referred me to the Apple Store. The Apple store links were circular, so there was no way to report the problem. (The Report a Problem page had a link that sent me to the Support page. To report a problem on the Support page there was a link to the Report a Problem page.) Luckily, my Apple Store account was linked to Paypal so I got a refund there.

Afterwards, I did some research and found out you can turn off in-app purchases, which I have now done. However, on this iPad, I have to go back and turn it on when I want to make a purchase, since the iPad does not have the ability to create separate user accounts.

I'm a lawyer and thought this would be a good class action suit. I'm glad to see someone has done it.