Another thing I want to know is due to the "Will it run Crysis?" meme/rep, how many of those downloads were to test their systems as opposed to actually playing?

Register for now. If Ron Paul wins I suspect Iowa will join the growing trend of needing to register months in advance, require a photo ID, can only register at approved locations with populations of a certain size after giving a DNA sample and a bi-weekly drug test.

Sorry, nm, I was looking a decade into the future if the trend continues.

Namecheap may not be astroturfing, but they are putting out the word/cause.

I can't say if it is for business reasons or if they are drinking from the same water cooler as the rest of the anti-SOPA crowd. Namecheap might be one of the few GoDaddy is targeting as Namecheap is proclaiming that you should transfer not only to be against SOPA but to save endangered wildlife from GoDaddy.

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/

N.C. has painted a target on themselves.

I thought they got to #1 by a two pronged method:
1) Relatively cheap
2) By being the most BRAWNDOTASTIC company around with bikini babes and their CEO riding around on a custom Orange County Chopper when he isn't hunting down elephants personally.

I think part of the problem is that the world is recovering.

Post-WW2? China was a piddling country recovering from being ravaged by Japan and colonial powers. Total war had left Europe in pieces. And so forth. The U.S. and Russia were the big players as the U.S. was untouched by war on its lands and Russia had been (mostly) shielded by its Winter. The rest of the world has either recovered or has begun rising to the standards of everyone else, thus exaggerating the "fall" of the U.S.

However, I am not so nationalistic to deny that there isn't a fall. Heck, when you have two men stealing an entire bridge to sell as scrap the stories you used to think of a third world only become worrying.

Maybe they are angry for the same reason I am. We had a space program that was scrapped instead of trying to fix it for politics reasons. These are the guys we were going to bum off of.

It is like we sold our Hummer because of the pathetic gas mileage with plans on getting a hybrid, decided the hybrid cost too much, and the best idea would be to pay out neighbor gas money to ride along in his duct-tape on wheels mobile.

My company's policy is that any out of hours call to an hourly employee is a "call in". The minimum time for that type per day is three hours. Per day. On the other hand, I've once had them contact a family member to come over to my apartment and yank me out of the bathtub during "emergency".

Possible, merely theoretical solutions that have no basis in what would happen:
* Confiscate Cameras: http://www.infowars.com/cops-confiscate-cameras-at-ohio-congressmans-town-hall/
* Delete data: http://www.pixiq.com/article/chicago-police-delete-journalism-professors-video-footage
* Destroy phone/camera: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/06/miami_police_destroy_cell_phon.php
* Use of a live streaming/storage to avoid confiscation/destruction? There's tech for that:
** http://inventorspot.com/articles/spy_technology_how_disable_a_cell_phone_15035
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer
* Wiretapping laws: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/05/1954216/Leave-a-Message-Go-To-Jail?from=twitter
* Camera blocking devices:
** http://www.gizmag.com/norte-photoblocker-club-beer-cooler/20820/
** Unable to find it, but I'm sure I remember Kipkay having a video showing how to make glasses that would blind any camera sensitive to infrared.

Some of this, such as the wiretapping cellphone case, has been overturned. I believe. This is just off the top of my head. I'm sure there is more for real cynics with time to list.

Yes, not the full story to prove a point. No, she isn't retarded, just differently motivated.

She isn't retarded. She is of the mindset that bragging and purposefully being ignorant of how computers work is a blessing and proof that she is "down to Earth". She feels anything implying intellectualism in a person is snobbish and a sign they have no lives. This includes doing any reading other than the newspaper.

It is being phased out. I don't know what the Apple OS is. Windows is effectively 64 bit by default now. All my work computers were native 64 bit Vista new just prior to Win 7. IT department at the time mandated they all be rolled back to XP 32-bit for ease of care.

Anyways, that is the point. Freaking Skyrim can run on a 32-bit machine if it has to. At FireFox's rate of bloat we won't be asking "Can it run Crysis?" but "Can it run FireFox?"

My mom has an android phone. They sell Android for Dummies books. So what?

Easy to use "appliance" things are bad? My mom can barely operate a flat screen television. It took her two years to figure out how to turn her computer one. Hint, there was literally only one button on it. She can work this phone just fine.

That there are /. readers who like android a lot testifies that it also courts the techies.

You forgot their submarines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI1y4sdPZE

Off topic, but I can explain as I didn't have mod points for a few years. I forget when I made this userid, but it was 5-3 years ago. I got mod points starting 1.5 months ago.

Never comment. I voted a few times. Made one or two comments, but really I just read the posted articles and skimmed the comments. The name might as well been useless.

Not all were stolen. http://news.yahoo.com/former-resident-sues-claim-alaska-moon-rocks-071955850.html

If this is a real moon rock someone just threw it away at one point. One person's valuable rock worth millions is another thing you can just pick up outside.

I swear I've seen Maxwell batteries somewhere. Maybe not the "Super POWER ACE red" variety, but I know that company has been state side at some point. I'm tempted to say either in the pharmacy in the previous town I lived in or some dollar store.