What do you mean by decently powered PC? I'm running a machine that still uses DDR1 memory and I can run BF:BC2 on medium settings no problem!

Sorry to interrupt all your Orwellian doom and gloom speculation, but Amazon.com is a private company. They can ban what they damn well please and its not an infringement of anyone's rights. Don't like it? Then don't shop there.

Someone claims that a private company might be banning certain books from its shelves and slashdotters get more hysterical than young earth creationists over teaching evolution in schools. Seriously you guys.

My first car was a 94 Ford Tempo coupe. I hated that thing, it got worse fuel efficiency than my mom's Caravan, had a terrible transmission, and leaked just about every fluid it had. Changing the coolant was a pain, you needed three buckets cause there was a bar right beneath the drain that the coolant would run along and spill out in three places. On the bright side it did teach me how to repair cars. I must have replaced every component in the engine over the four years I drove it. Started died twice, Oxygen sensor died, had to replace the transmission fluid pan, belt wore out, alternator died. Replaced the gas tank once, the entire muffler system twice, the stupid automatic seat belt motor twice! The car finally died when the rear shock broke off its mounting and punched through the trunk.

I swore I'd never buy a Ford after that.

Fast forward to 2010, and Ford refuses to take bail-out money, earning them some respect in my book. Then I hear about Ford's SYNC and think, "Wow, that is really cool." Then my Suzuki Aero decides to take a dirt nap. I end up buying a 2010 Ford Focus SE. I love this car, its the sportiest thing I've ever owned, gets good fuel economy and SYNC is just amazing. And Ford is updating SYNC to be able to control applications on your phone soon.

Ford has turned itself around in my opinion. They are actually innovating, and so they have won me over, even after the nightmare that was my Tempo. Congrats Ford.

I'd say the transporter just to avoid TSA security screening, but then it occurred to me that in order to be turned into energy, beamed somewhere and turned back into matter, they have to have an exact blueprint of me.

So unless these things are cheap enough to have your own everywhere, you still have no privacy!

If you checked out the full article there's a link to the builder's blog. He runs the oil through a radiator. His temps looked pretty good

Really liked the oil cooled case. Oil cooling always intrigued me. Would be fun to try someday.

The Cray 1 was classic.

Same here.

The purpose of the constitution is clearly outlined in its preamble:

I suppose one way to paraphrase that would be to say: "We the people, in order to get along and not mess with each other, and protect ourselves when necessary, establish this Constitution so we have an orderly way to resolve conflict."

That's just the thing isn't it? The commerce clause doesn't give the government unlimited power, it has however been twisted and bent and used by the government to justify assuming more than its Constitutionally granted power. It is entirely our fault as citizens though. The US, at least for now, is still a government "Of the People, for the People and by the People." We got what we voted for, sure we were lied to, but we didn't care enough to take action. Its much easier and more entertaining to watch our favorite sports team or cheer for our favorite American Idol contestant.

At the end of the day the Constitution is just a piece of very old paper. It only has power if We the People enforce its rule, by force if necessary. I think we could still turn things around without violence, for now.

The US government as it is today is not the government that is outlined for us in the Constitution. It is vastly more powerful, you are right. As it is today the government can basically do what it wants. I hope we stop distracting ourselves long enough to fix that.

You can acquire whatever material objects you want with a sufficient amount of cash and/or explosives.

Fire them all. How can we expect 20 and 30 year incumbents to represent anything other than the political elite? After 30 years in office they have no idea what normal life is like. Heck, there's at least one congress critter who admitted that he's never used an ATM!

Honestly we need two major reforms. The first being term limits for both houses of congress. The second would be to repeal the 17th amendment. The reason for repealing the 17th amendment is to give the states some representation in the federal government again. When the states have no representation the Fed over reaches, which is what we have today.

I don't know about that. Microsoft is being pretty strict on the hardware requirements for WP7. While they aren't controlling the actual hardware like Apple they are dictating things like the screen size. That alone is a huge improvement over the Android ecosphere. Here is a list of minimum specs.

Seems to me that WP7 is taking a good middle ground, though I'm not sure about its reliance on Silverlight. I'd rather see a straight C# API (other than XNA for game development that is)

FTFA: The Green Flight Challenge, he explained, is just the first step in NASA’s plan to develop a new aviation infrastructure, in which quiet, auto-piloted aircraft would deliver people and goods on a point-to-point basis, within communities.

The soccer moms aren't flying. The hillbillys aren't flying. Everything is very automated, there probably isn't even a traffic controller. Obviously to achieve that level of automation weather will have to be taken into account. Maintenance for such an automated system would also be taken into account. Heck my car emails me when it needs its oil changed (Ford's SYNC) if my car can keep track of its own maintenance I'm sure these planes could do so with much greater accuracy and reliability. You'll also notice that there are two more challenges to be held, one in 2013 and one in 2015.

I don't know how you got modded +5 insightful, all you did was show you didn't read the article while displaying your incredible hatred for people you consider inferior.

I would make one amendment to your statement. Intentionally blowing up innocent people, just because you can, is terrorism.

You should not lump an Apache pilot who mistakes a broom for a RPG while in a stressful situation into the same category as a terrorist who calmly spends time and money planning and executing an attack. It sucks but mistakes happen in war, that doesn't make it an act of terror.

Behavioral profiling, such as what is practiced by the Israelis, is both cheaper and more effective than searching for weapons. If we adopted behavioral profiling, screened all baggage for explosives and ran passengers through the air-puff chemical sensors we'd have a system that protects travelers privacy much better, is much more effective and significantly cheaper than our current system.

Explosives are the real threat anymore. A few terrorists wonldn't be able to take over an airplane, not now that the passengers will fight back and the cockpit doors are reinforced. Preventing passengers from bringing things like nail clippers is just asinine.