I bought a Nook Color last Christmas and have been pretty disappointed. The eBook prices are ridiculously high. They are often higher than the physical book in the store or Amazon. They also seem to be consistently higher than Amazon's prices for the same eBook (which are also too high). The reader's behavior doesn't really seem to match up to the specs. It feels pretty slow, and the screen response is extremely poor. Many of the applications that come with (such as crosswords) are not functional because the touchscreen response is inaccurate. Battery life is pretty good when you're using it, but if it's set aside for a couple of weeks and not used, the battery will drain in the meantime.

Also signed.

Really? This one seemed a little worse to me. It's pretty obvious at this point that he doesn't intend to meaningfully respond to any petition that isn't an automatic home run for him.

That's not contradictory at all. He says that not only do we not have a shortage, but that many good engineers have had to take up other careers. Why is that difficult to understand?

Bombs or bandages? Wave to the plane and find out!

We're all cosmonauts now, comrade.

Not sure what your link had to do with anything, but it /has/ been done before: http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Materials:Chocolate

Massive amounts of caffeine are often effective for me. I take Excedrin Migraine (mostly caffeine) and then chew coffee beans or drink several cans of soda. If I can do this immediately when the aura starts, pretty often I'll avoid the headache. Still end up just a bit "off" for days though.

From his comments I don't think Obama would have a problem signing this. My impression of his opinion is "Yeah. It shouldn't be illegal, but it's not worth spending political capital to make that happen." If it didn't cost him anything, he'd approve.

He's very frequently been right, even when analyzing extraordinary things... That's why he's a good bit of the reason why he's an incredibly successful author.

towards completely destroying America in order to make sure that America is safe?

This is a better objection. But as a rough plan, I'd put on a manual focus lens, and connect the circuitry to an auto-focus lens laid next to it. Tell the camera to focus into the distance, but focus your inline manual lens as you need to.

And... at this point it's easier probably to use the software crack. The point, though, is that next week there will be a new and "truly unbreakable" version of the software that closes whatever hole was found, but it sure seems like access to the hardware lets you defeat any possible system that could be designed.

I think you could do a pretty good job with a semi-pro ten color inkjet. The gamut will be near sRGB. You can upscale the image and blur a bit to kill moire. Reducing the camera capture resolution and compression quality a touch would further hide any defects. Most importantly, if you tell a courtroom "Look, the picture looks good and Nikon cameras make magic pictures that can't lie." They are going to say "OK!" not "Why don't we analyze the image gamut and maybe look for double vignetting or warping that isn't quite consistent with a standard Nikon lens. Not only is this possible, it's how everything was actually done not too many years ago. The technique of "Cut up some printed images or film and lay them out to be photographed again" was the way that books, newspapers and magazines were created for many, many years. Do you think pre-1990s National Geographic pictures are too ugly and unbelievable to pass muster in a courtroom?

Just take a picture of the photo-shopped image with your Nikon camera. Bam! That was sure hard to crack.

You're right. The really sad thing is that I had it correct, but believed my grammar check when it suggested "past".