I don't think that statement is actually correct. There was an experiment done where people where told to eat until they were full out of a bowl of soup. And the amount people ate was strongly correlated to the size of the container, despite everyone believing they only ate the amount they needed.

I believe intent of the law may be served nearly as well even if one or two additional drinks were free. i.e. $2 for the first 16-oz drink, and then second drink was free.

There has been a lot of research in this area, that shows that the slightest nudge in the right direction can actually change people's behaviour quite a bit.

No one's banning anything. The only thing being limited it the size of a single container. You can buy a hundred 16-oz containers of any sugary drink if you wanted to.

It's very unlikely that a black market rise because I don't see anyone willing to pay any significant amount for a single 32-oz container instead of two 16-oz containers.

Are you sure about that? The below is a direct quote directly from Obama's speech at the UN:

"The amateur anti-Muslim film made in the U.S. that sparked anger was crude and disgusting, an insult to Muslims and America. It must be rejected. But the U.S. won’t ban it because the Constitution protects free speech. Taking that right away threatens the rights of all to express their own views and practice their own faith."

StartSSL provides free SSL certificates.

The incentive is that when you're overseas for 2 months, if you're not unlocked, you'd have to pay roaming charges to your current mobile company to use your phone. Otherwise you'd have to get another phone. Once they unlock it they no longer have that revenue stream. I'm not saying it's right, but I'm just saying that's their incentive.

If you're open to considering locations in Canada, then Shad Valley is a great program that a lot of my friends have gone to. It's hosted by a university in Canada and is well suited for someone interested in tech. I'd recommend the University of Waterloo location as it probably provides the best exposure to the tech companies in Canada.

All the versions of Microsoft Office that I've used with a ribbon (2007 & 2010) automatically recognize shortcuts and treat them like Office 2003. For example in Excel 2007, if you enter Alt+E, S that brings up the Paste Special dialog just like in Excel 2003. It's not obvious at first that the shortcuts will work, but give them a shot and it should function in the same way.

I use a program called Sandboxie that works quite well in doing sandboxed IPC (along with file and registry operations) in any app, so it's definitely possible with third party apps, but it's nice to see that sandboxing is finally natively built into the browsers themselves.

While $12,000 is quite a bit of money, it's certainly much lower than the July 2001 cost of $100,000,000. Also, my understanding is that most uses don't require sequencing the entire genome, but rather just a small subset of it. The cost per megabase has dropped from nearly $10,000 to less than $0.20, which does seem quite cheap.

What prevents a blackberry app from doing this right now? I don't see this as a new problem introduced by android support so much as an issue with any malicious app whether for blackberry or android.

This just seems like an argument for why credit is important to have if used appropriately.

Artifical gravity is very easy to create using the centripetal force. Just make it a round shape that rotates at the right velocity to make the centripetal force of the ship equal to whatever level of gravity you'd like.