Indeed, she's doing better than I thought possible. Merging with AOL is an absolutely brain dead moronic idea. There is nothing of value in AOL. That's like merging Tesla with a maker of horse buggies. Merging Yahoo and AOL has got to be the stupidest idea I've heard in corporate maneuvering. I guess the thinking goes, "lets take these two near death companies, merge them, sell our stock based on the excitement to cash out, then let them die." That's the only possible reason behind something so inane.

That's silly. Making products work with only your products is legal and has been going on for at least 100 years. If you get razors from company X you can't get blades from company Y. Like video games (that Apple mentioned in their argument) that work only in their console, if you get a DVD it won't play in your VCR, your AT&T phone won't work on Verizon, if you get HBO you can't record it without DRM in HD, only certain garbage cans fit into my cabinets trash drawer, etc. It's stupid to expect a company has to make their products universally compatible just because they have the industry-leading product. We have hand sanitizer dispensers and, guess what, they only let you use their packaged liquid. Only an idiot would think companies should be compelled to do otherwise.

And regarding the record companies, it was "use music with your DRM only or no music for you". So the alternative would be NO iPods or downloadable music. You'd be back having to buy a crappy album for a single good song.

Jumper the center conductor of the antenna to the screw part, shorting it. Shouldn't have much range at that point and may burn out the radio.

This is just the sort of bug to get people to adopt Linux on the desktop, since it will be more similar to what they expect from Windows.

Every UPS I've used, from cheap home ones, to full rack APC units, I've found that the batteries last about 4-5 years. The home unit needed $40 for new batteries (same OEM, not APC-branded.) They lasted 8 years, which I thought was pretty good. (And, yes, I do test it every year or sooner.) It's pretty cheap insurance and you can use the power in an emergency for things like inflating an air mattress if you have to sleep in the basement due to tornado warnings (yes, I've don that!)

I'd suspect that's a safety feature, so you don't accidentally use the remote to open the trunk while driving or something. I know my car does that.

How clever are they for listing the companies who have signed up and NOT making them a link to the company's web page.

America won't learn from any country. In fact, we don't even learn from our own history.

I get 8 oz bottles of pure vanilla at Costco for not much more than the artificial stuff at that grocery store. I usually add extra to whatever I'm making since it tastes so good.

The three complaints I had were lack of IO pins, CPU speed and RAM. They did address the lack of IO pins, which was cool. Sure keeping them cheap is hard, but even phones have 1 GB of RAM now.

But faster wouldn't necessarily require being more expensive, or maybe add 15 cents to the price.

If they'd only make the thing faster with more RAM. It's pretty under powered for a modern single board computer. Sure, you can overclock, but why not just up the specs and call it a model C?

I was under the impression that most of the ocean bottom is actually mud / silt / muck, not sand.

Perhaps not federally, but there are plenty of state laws:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/f...

This indicates that cash discounts are legal under all agreements:

http://fso.cpasitesolutions.co...

Surcharges for credit cards are against ToS, but discounts for cash or some other method of payment are not, but law.