"Unlimited" does not mean "infinite." Think, "there is no two." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_One_Infinity

In this case, as with software, "unlimited" means that there is no arbitrary limitation on the number of plantiffs or lawsuits. Sure, there is a theoretical maximum of some 308 million plantiffs, and a further theoretical maximum of some six billion defendants... meaning that if the theoretical maximum were reached, we'd have more lawsuits on this law than have ever been filed in the history of our jurisprudence.

So, yeah, "unlimited" sounds about right.

Yes, yes they are. Read up on "harassment" for starters, and that's just the one I know off the top of my head.

Bollocks. It may not be against THAT law... but sending faxes with as benign an intent as annoying someone can be criminal. In NYS, for instance, you'd be violating the penal code.

There may be a federal equivalent elsewhere in the law. Good rule of thumb: If it interferes with someone else, don't assume you're not violating any laws until you talk to a lawyer.

(And don't get hang up on that "how could they figure out my intent!" argument. Near every criminal locked up in the state had a jury of their peers infer their intent. [the exceptions being those who pled guilty])

Can you point to even ONE study that links IQ and nerdiness / geekiness? Unapplied Intelligence is fungible, and any community that adopts memes like "hot grits!" or "first post!", while clearly nerdy, does not seem to be demarcated by any substantial intellect requirement.

(Oh, and the English language is organic instead of prescribed. "Ain't" is a word, "ATM Machine" isn't really a tautology, and "hacker" means someone who engages in "hacking", or the illegal access of computer systems through use of technical knowledge.)

A mass murderer, assuming he's not in the US, is an international problem. We've left other countries to more or less mind their business since our country's founding. ("More or less" meaning that we largely negotiate and strongarm with whomever manages to act like a government in some cases, and when we don't do that we always regret it.)

Wikileaks, however, is an organization that has come to directly target the operational security of the USA. It's not even journalism -- it's just "secrets are bad." There's hardly anything in the last three big releases that should be news to ANYONE. (War is hell in Iraq. War is hell in Afghanistan. What countries say in private isn't what they say in public.)

OTOH, I wouldn't say that the federal government is SCARED of wikileaks. If they were really a problem, Obama has an absurdly broad array of options, the most fast-acting of which would be to recognize WIkileaks as a terrorist organization. (What ELSE do you call a private group dedicated to breaking laws and changing the political direction of a country that they are not citizens of?) . OTOH, Assange is a big enough prick that it looks like all we have to do is wait, and he'll hang himself. (Yes, if you're mid-sex and she says stop, failing to do so *IS RAPE*.)

1: The Fantastic Four have essentially gone bankrupt at least twice. In the Marvel U, I believe Reed Richards isn't just Hawking, but he's Gates, Jobs, and Wozinak too.

2: "I'm a @#%ing superhuman. Bite me, I'm not paying."

3: Now you understand the reason for a secret identity.

There's a world of difference between "secrets and wrongdoing" and "privacy and discretion." Accused rapist Assange* asked for and then published what amounts to the private correspondence of American ambassadors... something that on a long enough timetable is made public as a route matter ANYWAY.

Show me something that's truly shocking from the American diplomacy bomb, and then you'll have a point. But as any journalist would tell you, there's no news in this story beyond that Wikileaks did it.

(*: If he's innocent, he can go back and defend himself. If he's innocent, he has little reason not to and a big scary reason to do so... namely, to clear his and wikileaks' names.)

IANAL. Neither are you*. But I will poke holes in your logic.

Yeah. I didn't sign an agreement at that gas station, so there's no contract and I can just take the gas!

Maybe. Depends on how they got there. Does the newspaper site have an entry pop-up it tries to show to every visitor? Is it forcing them to click past a warning? Are the terms there at all?

That's just dumb. Folk can and have been identified based on IP address, DHCP be damned. You might as well say "you can't proove I was the one in that brown coat!" Of course they can. That's what juries are for.

*: You may very well BE a lawyer, but if so... and you're neither drunk nor purposefully trolling... you suck.

WTF?

A consumer hard drive you buy today, desktop or laptop, will have a bog-standard SATA port with a bog-standard size. With the possible exception of Apple, NO ONE bothers trying to make those darn things proprietary. They just slap their "use HP spare # XX-XXXXX" on a standard part, and are done with it.

I wouldn't want one in my TiVo, but if the lowest price for a flash SSD was anything close to a classic HDD, I'd make that my system & app partition in a heartbeat. As it is, their entry level is twice as much for half the space.

SSD's on Newegg start over $70: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&Tpk=Flash%20SSD&Order=PRICE

Desktop HDD's start at $35: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=14&name=Internal-Hard-Drives&Order=PRICE

Nope. the summary was seriously screwed up. GM's engineers determined that, IF the batteries were low enough to need charging from the engine AND the car was going over 70 mph, it was more efficient to have the gasoline engine provide kinetic energy directly.

Unless you're on a highway, the car runs exactly as GM described it would: like a diesel-electric hybrid train.

But there's ZERO profit in it. Go on and name a period of human exploration of Earth, and all of them have one thing in common: profit.

Unions are paid directly by their membership, or in certain legislated instances, directly by those they represent in contract negotiations.

The only "middle-man" cost to a union is the wages that workers receive when they bargain collectively. To argue that this is an "increased" cost, you need to refute the union's basic premise -- that collective bargaining brings about a "fair" wage.

While you're about it, please include an example where everyone having to haggle for the cost of a head of lettuce is also "fair", please.

You should never, EVER think platform, then app. Think audience, application, and THEN learn what you need.

Your school district is using iPads? Then learn iOS. You have an android phone at home, or have java experience? Learn Android. You want to just make something work? Get the Android, iOS, and WebOS SDKs, and test like @#% so your mobile phone works everywhere. (Heck, get Blackberry and windows mobile if you can.)

Wait, you mean they want the capacity to raise price when demand spikes, so as to help the market forces discourage use when reduced use causes the most benefit to the market, and thus allow them to stretch out their infrastructure allotment and help save the planet?

Shocking, SHOCKING I say! :)

No. Mixing a song is a professional art, and wanting to take out of part of it is like taking out one parts of speech from a novel, or removing one color from a painting.

In the instance that someone wants to setup a "mix playground", the end-user medium is NOT the right format. A multilayer data DVD would be a far better choice, although it would be best if targeted to a specific software mixer's format.