You mean "the time a human programed a computer error that could have wiped out the whole of human existence."

What's funny about this line is that a couple of days ago, there was a discussion on /. About badly coded games being leaked on purpose to prevent piracy.

After spending the last 24 hours trying to locate missing boot logs, use system repair, and failing to actually complete a system restore, I'm in agreement. AVG is the new Symantic. It's heavy on the PC, constantly asking to perform full scans when it's schedule to scan in the early AM, and the constant nagging about the free version being for non-commercial use just because I have the enterprise version of W7 is enough; it's going in the trash. I was so damn busy today that I didn't get to read up on the cause of my wife's worries and my headachs for something I suspected the entire time. As many geeks have recommended AVG in the past, why didn't this story make the front page of Google news?

News for nerds...cmdrtaco got that one right for sure.

No, networks are blocking Google TVs from their websites, not their actual networks. That would be extremely difficult to do anyway.

Hack-a-day is a good one for me. They aggregate projects scattered all over the net, often times with schematics, demonstration videos, and parts references. While not all projects are DIY--literally, what some of these techs come up with is truly stunning. Favorite topic: Arduino boards.

Not necessarily. The middle man will just change rolls. For instance, instead of someone fronting the artist for food money to keep them alive, paying for studio time, and printing CDs, the artist takes on most of the cost (food, studio,etc.) and the middle man distributes to the end users. Apple is a great example of a very profitable middle man. They pay for server space, bandwidth, and processing fees to charge the consumer (and tying a music player doesn't hurt). The current middle man is just trying to protect the business model of NOT paying the artist but still receiving the money. A case of this is the distributors selling CDs wholesale for $5-6 each and giving the artist $0.2-0.10 a piece and claiming the contribution margin was so low they couldn't get anything even though the royalty per disc was negotiated at signing in binary form in the small print.

Sure an artist can play both roles, as they could by printing their own CDs a decade ago, but the music changes to profit margins and viable business models instead of music people enjoy. But an artist shouldn't focus on what strategic model they should implement for success; leave that to someone else who's core competency is business and you focus on making music you feel good about. But it's naive to think the middle man is going any where. People can't be experts in everything.

Yes and no. The wii is seen as an hid device for the most part, but there are parts of it that don't work properly. For instance, the speaker on the wiimote can play 11Khz pcm audio when used by the wii, but can only play a single frequency at a time when used in conjunction with any other device. The power button also doesn't register any signals over Bluetooth either. So it's not just a simple hid profile, but just part of standards and part proprietary.

The ps3 controllers on the other hand do require drivers to work properly. Drivers were made by a Chinese company and Sony didn't lose their cool and threaten legal action for developing and/or using the controller with the pc. This would be the relevant comparison you were looking for.

Ditto. For a long time an AT&T flash ad on any system I had would drive up the CPU heat, and often you'd see the same juice sucking ads on the same page running in different threads. The ironic part was the ads were usually advertising the iPhone.

Nope. Android doesn't run a VM nor can you take Java code and run it natively on Android without recompilation.

EIC doesn't help the middle class as most of them make too much to qualify and when they do, they don't get much out of it. EIC is actually the best way to help the lower class, who tend to be less educated and work for minimum wage.

Because they are less educated, they are usually the last to be hired and the first to be fired when budget cuts are necessary. Most minimum wage jobs go to part-time teenagers, the elderly/retired, and spouses who don't have to work but do so to get out of the house. Non of these labor participants actually need the money but since they are usually technologically advance (teenagers), hire educated (soccer moms/dads), and/or more experienced (elderly), they're more attractive than the worker that isn't educated and/or experienced. So when minimum wage is raised, the intended target group doesn't benefit much, but in fact suffers because inflation. Raising the minimum wage seems like a great social idea and great political taking point but has little affect to the group that needs it the most. However, this group tends to have children and EIC helps them make up lousy wages and raise their standard of living.

Unfortunately, this group is preyed upon by rapid tax refund loan providers that give loans where interest rates and fees are astronomical, often in the thousands of percents. Because the group is uneducated and desperate for money, they take the fee, lose $300-$1000 in credits, and take the lump sum cash. Instead of saving the money to supplement their incomes throughout the year, they tend to spend it all in a matter of days. Some quit their jobs and use the money to live off of for a few months and just restart the poverty cycle once all the cash is depleted.

I just hope this trend doesn't continue. Mobile phones are putting Moore's law back into relevance and if Apple becomes the dominant player, then there's going to be a huge shift in the way applications are priced to compensate for refunds (which are all but impossible to get from Apple) and the large chunk that the distributor is skimming off the top. Android makes this a little easier depending on carrier (AT&T being an outlier), but Google is still taking 30% off the top too. The only advantage to Google vs Apple right now is the way Google Checkout pays out so frequently you don't have to worry too much about cash flows. Unlike Apple, you don't have to accumulate $150 in one month and wait another month for the check. You do with the advertising but that's not anything new to those familiar with digital advertising.

My real anticipation is when AMD and nVidia get into the mobile race with GPUs that are smaller, use less electricity, and can produce stunning graphics like we see today. While that dream is a long ways off, one can hope for the day I can carry my phone around, go home and plop it on a base station to charge and get access to more input devices, larger screens, printers, and play a few high quality games while I'm there. I can already do most of those things with my Galaxy S, but HDMI out would be the killer feature for a mobile all in one (yes, I'm aware of the other Android phones with HDMI out but I have T-Mobile). Ahh....one can dream.

Android is designed to run on PHONES, not tablets and portable music players. Just because it can doesn't mean that's what it's designed for, and it would make sense to compare Android, which is predominately a mobile phone OS, to the just the iPhone which is a mobile phone as well.

That's like saying that Windows is the most popular PC operating system in the world then redefine PC as any machine that processes binary data in people's home; then some Linux nut says that you should include all devices that process binary data and Linux would be the clear winner because Linux covers mobile devices, servers, mainframes, and super computers as well as DVD players, routers, and DVRs. The market is sliced up iPhone vs Android because of the primary function (being a phone) that's being marketed, not what other companies have decided to make it do.

I dnt no abt that. I wld gess the prgrm that can trn this to a legble respns will be the savir for our new tnns of tday.

No, you were told Oracle was bad and and their commitment to OOo is a coin flip. Libre is just a way to settle the "who will support the open source nature of the program now?" No talking points needed for bad recall abilities.