Eric S. Raymond can go fuck him self. I have health care and can now afford to go back to school because of "obamacare".

The company is a cheesy blog company that is pay per click bate its just another tech blog that does it because they could. He started the twitter feed to stay in contact with this followers on the site and now they are suing him? Well if your job tells you to go and buy a phone for a job and when you quite do they get to keep your phone because you did it on their order? If they wanted to have followers they should have just used their own twitter feed. This is like saying joshua trapolsky should have given up his twitter feed when he founded the This is my next with the rest of the exiting Engadget staff after the HuffPo Aol/weblogs Merger.

company gets hacked and your personal info and credit information is now in the hands of organized crime. Let me think ....

So i heard you liked dead consoles, so we put a dead console in your dead console!

But in the end i have to ask does what you do really matter? You're making a better arm lever for a slot machine system that greed driven people game and manipulate. You might not care what you build, but you are part of a system that promotes a status quo of apathy. The work you do it just another vector that put us on a path to the world wide economic shit storm we have now. What is 500,000 dollars really worth when you could have taken those skills and gotten us to the stars? You could have wrote a program that solved the folding errors of prions. You could have wrote a program that could calculate similar ways of producing the same drugs cheaper. I say you are a wasted talent and it saddens me that the majority of graduated with math degrees and comp sci degrees from top universities are joining you in further bringing a faster "real-time" end to any shining bright academics solving issues for the good of humanity. All because they rather be paid 500,000 for their soul.

As tech journalist and podcaster Skype has been the backbone of the industry for doing remote interviews. But to record it is a hack at best. Who ever makes a FOSS Video / Audio HD multiple guest video confrence software please allow for individual recording of the streams of audio and video. Skype technically could have done this but muxxed the audio from multiple guests together, the video then could be layered as different video layers using plugins on the mac side like Call Recorder. But If anything allowing for people to record multiple video sources would be key. I was originally planning a sit down with reps from TWiT, Revision3, AOL, PBS, & PixelCorps to have a sit down with Skype engineers to hopefully address these issues but the meeting was canceled a month before the announcement of the purchase from Microsoft. I understand why now. Some of the basic wishes from everyone was that skype might: 1) Split Video and Audio channels to make them accessible to 3rd party developers. 2) Remote starts and built-in recording... so everyone can double end record for higher quality 3) Higher Quality Video, in the 720p and 1080p range 4.) Dedicated connection support as to not have random changes in in audio / video quality 5.) Output of video channels for software video switchers and streamers like Telestreams Wirecast Pro

Its a combination of both gas and electric costs. The roads must be paid for. I am not one for Private / Public hwy toll road hybrids.

How is this bad? This reckoning was gonna come sooner or later. The way Americans in particular just suckle on the gas pump not knowing how much they use except for $40 to $50 here or there to fill a tank must end. We must be made responsible for the amount of fossil fuels we use. The people who pay for these taxes and must cover them will try to push for more mass transit then. Also the fact this is also attacked the the bill for putting in more off shore drilling as well as the repeal of the 40 billion in gas subsidies we give will make republican oil stooge politicians think three times before they even try to push for the ability to do off shore drilling. This is puts the ball in their court. Do they really want to have off shore drilling if this is what it will bring their corporate overlords? No. So no offshore drilling. This is the Democrats taking a page for the Neo-Conservative playbook on dirty politics and finally give the GOP a taste of their own medicine in politics. The same thing happened with the health care bill wear in order to get it passed they had to allow tons of riders from the GOP in on it. So this is there way of doing it right back in my point of view.