How do you ever buy anything if you're upset that technology keeps improving and you want to wait until the next leap in performance? If you're looking for the best performance, you're *always* better off waiting, but if you need a computer in the meantime, you have to draw a line in the sand and declare that the price/performance is good enough where it is now.

Though for most uses, you won't see a significant difference between a 650MB/sec SSD and a 1300MB/sec SSD.

If they really believe they will prevail in the end, at a minimum, the resulting punishment should include a fine large enough to cover the agency's costs of pursuing the case, then no tax dollars would be needed.

What are you talking about? 11 *is* 3.

I've never had a problem getting the rate I was quoted. It's common that they are out of the particular car class I ordered, but that's to be expected, they don't have unlimited room to store each of a dozen car classes. They've always either upgraded me for "free" (except that the upgraded car often uses more gas, so it's not really "free", but I've had good luck talking them into giving me a Hybrid when that happens if they have one available), or gave me a discount for a downgraded car.

Rental agencies overbook just like the airlines, but it's harder for them to ensure supply when people don't return cars on time, at least an airline knows that they can seat 300 people on a 300 person aircraft, the rental agency isn't sure if they'l have 0 or 50 cars on the lot by the time you get there because some people may be late, or they may have sent a lot of cars on one-way trips. It's a tough logistical problem.

If you rent a car regularly, sign up for the rental agency's premier club. When I used to travel a lot, my company rented from Avis and Hertz almost exclusively, I was in both of their permier rental programs, and when I got to the car lot I could just find the car with my name on it, and drive away, showing my ID to the guy at the gate. The other advantage is that my premier reserved car is *always* there, even if they have to turn away other customers to make sure the car is there.

Yeah, you think that's bad, I don't even have a computer or internet access and they wouldn't let me sign up.I must have sent them a dozen faxes and letters, and I'm still waiting for my so called "free" email account. Is it really "free" if it requires an expensive computer to use it!?

I'd be surprised if LED's are ever as cheap as incandescents, a few year back I bought a bulk pack of bulbs - I paid around 35 cents/bulb, and the 100W bulbs were the same price as the 60W bulbs.

LED's have many more components than a light bulb, and are more difficult to assemble.

There's still a large number of people who just don't like LED's or CFL's... and some even claim that the high efficiency halogens just aren't the same, it could take decades for those people to make the switch to LED's without legislation that makes it more difficult and more expensive to purchase incandescents. If even 1 out of 100 people want to stick with incandescents, that's over a million households in the USA alone, still plenty of room for economies of scale to keep prices reasonable.

If you're going to use punch cards, you'd be better off printing each video frame on a card and building a flip-book as someone suggested earlier. Much better data density.

It'd be awfully surprising if the knowledge of Volt as a unit of measurement will be lost to the world in 100 years (assuming that society hasn't collapsed), so supplying power shouldn't be a problem. I'd be surprised if the data lasts on on the flash drive that long. Maybe an old school burnt ROM chip (not EEPROM) would be safer. And make sure to leave instructions for replacing other components that might degrade, like capacitors.

When you upload it to your computer, give it a unique filename (a GUID would be good), then leave a note in the time capsule instructing them to ask the NSA to recover a copy of the file from their archives.

I have to agree on the build quality -- that soldering is not very professional looking, unless some unskilled tech at the police department (or where ever) builds their own devices, that screams out "home made". The white/brown wires are barely soldered to the pad on the back side of the board.

Twilio is one provider that provides this service.

Put one of these in the hands of criminals, and it'll be the end of police helicopters -- it's got to be easier to take down a lightweight fiberglass clad helicopter than a car.

I spent a month in Japan with a Korean friend and we didn't have any problems, though we stayed mainly in the cities, perhaps things would have been different in smaller towns.

I thought it was more of a case "That is allowed, so why not this?" If the government required that all internet communications into the country were decrypted for inspection, then sure, it would be logical to require that personal storage devices be decrypted as well.

But I don't see why data is subject to inspection when you're carrying it, but not when you're sending it electronically. Why is it fine to send a private email to your drug dealer while you're standing in line at customs, but as soon as you reach the agent, you have to decrypt the storage you're holding in your hand?

Terabytes (Petabytes?) of encrypted data enters the country every day from across the world via the internet, yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?

I sincerely hope he wins the case.