The two notable things (other than the quality of teaching) about his class: infinite time is given to take exams (exams started at 7pm and a teaching assistant would stay until the last student left - the record during my tenure was 5:00am, or so I heard) and he provide free Tosci's ice cream during the exam.

During the Bose factory tours, he showed off Project Sound a decade before it was revealed to the press. And inevitably a student would challenge some of the concepts the Bose company popularized (direct/reflecting, lack of tone controls, etc) and Dr. Bose would gently, but convincingly slap down the student using a blizzard of engineering arguments (rumor has it that Ken Kantor was the only student that could successfully go toe-to-toe with Dr. Bose).

RIP Dr. Bose.

I think it would be more accurate to say "the original iPod Touch was and iPhone without the phone" given the iPhone came to market first (June 2007 vs September 2007).

A portable (well, vehicle-mounted) system also exists, although it could always be smaller.

So long as we're going to resort to generalities...

No, they would just rather project your right to confront and shoot kids for the heinous crime of playing their music too loud (or the even more heinous crime of wearing a hoodie in rainy weather while carrying a can of iced tea).

That attitude is one of the reasons that DRM still exists.

I suspect that if Swartz had stopped the first couple of times MIT tried to block him, that would have been the end of it.

(No, Swartz did not deserve years in jail for what he did and the whole situation was a tragedy. I'm just noting that you were warned and you stopped. Swartz was warned and he kept at it).

Now what would have happened if you kept doing it?

Really? Really?

Let's look at some of his more signature accomplishments:

• Health care legislation: based on ideas from a Republican Governor and the Heritage Foundation (although both of those had public option aspects).
• ARRA: half tax cuts
• Immigration: has set records for deporting illegal immigrants
• WoT: continued and expanded Bush policies for internet-warfare, targeted killings, warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention
• Gun bans: nothing proposed, enacted or even discussed

• About the only thing he has been to the left on is gay rights, and even that was basically half-hearted until very recently.

Following up - another post reminded me about the 2007-2008 Democratic primaries. Hillary Clinton had a significant lead among black voters in the early going. Things started shifting when Bill started running his mouth in South Carolina.

What you mean is "96 and 98% of american black voters" voted for the Democrat - the 96% Obama got is consistent with the 90% that Gore got, the 88% Kerry got, the 90% Mondale and Dukakis got, the 94% Johnson got etc.

If blacks were voting overwhelmingly based on race, than you should see overwhelming support for Hermain Cain, Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, etc. That's not the case.

Uh, no it isn't. Quotas (in the USA) in particular have been illegal since the 1970's.

Uh, no. Maybe you can argue that an IPO or accepting outside investment obligates yourself to the pursuit of profit over all else, but not incorporation in and of itself. If my LLC cared about profit over all else, I'd be charging a lot more for my services.

Yes- conservative Democrats. Liberal = Democrat and Conservative = Republican is a recent turn of events, before the 1960's there were conservative and liberal Republicans, as well as conservative and liberal Democrats.

If the problem were "unions" you would expect that states without collective bargaining requirements would outperform states with those requirements.They don't.