I still wish someone would make (and sell) a USB 5.25" floppy drive. I still have a few 5.25" floppies kicking around that I'd love to get data off of, if they're still readable.

It's great that we have U.S.-based cargo delivery/recovery capacity again. This is definitely a huge milestone. However, the crewed-version of the Dragon will be the true, emotional U.S. milestone, as it replaces the human element lost with the retirement of the space shuttle.

"Welcome.... You've got mail!"

and driver's licenses to some degree.

I swear I read that as SCROTUS.

I'm sure they could go the Adobe CS route and create an Apple "Bridge" that allows all the component applications access to the iTunes Library, app library, book library and such.

In the 1990s, there used to be tons of free dial-up ISP providers that gave you free access so long as you agreed to surf the web through their branded version of Internet Explorer that framed websites in ads. Some providers required you to click the ads so many times within a certain interval of time or get disconnected.

I'm sure these frames and banner ads "violated" the design of websites that were browsed by these users, but since the websites themselves were not hacked or damaged and displayed correctly on the computer screen of those not using ad-managed ISPs/web browsers, there is probably not a tangible copyright issue.

Hotel Wi-Fi is just the modern version of this same model, albeit without using software or requiring ad clicks.

1. The websurfer agrees to a Terms of Service that allows the ISP to make changes to inbound website page requests.
2. The websurfer proceeds to request pages from a remote webserver. The ISP injects ads as the customer consented.


No where in this was the remote webserver compromised or hacked. The website still loads as the content owner designed on computers accessing the website through ISPs that have not adjusted the content. Since the customer is agreeing to allow the ISP to alter his web browsing experience in exchange for Internet Access, this is permissible. Unethical, perhaps, but permissible. Certainly not compyright infringement.

Whether it's free Wi-Fi or paid Wi-Fi, read those Terms of Service. I'm sure this activity was disclosed in theire either explicitly or with ambiguous language. As the saying goes: Don't like it? Don't use it.

Rule 34, baby.

Hotmail account
Passport account
.NET Passport account
Windows Live ID
now finally just "Microsoft account". It's about time.

-Windows for games and Active Directory-managed MSOffice-dominated corporate offices.

-Mac OS X for creative types and the content creators for the aforementioned corporate offices.

-Linux for the sysadmin to play with at home and, at work, to have running on an old box in the server room to do a task that a Windows server could probably do just fine, but not as efficiently, and is in constant danger of being replaced with a Windows system, just so the SOX manager will be happy.

When the incompatible hardware doesn't sell, the OEMs will hear you loud and clear.

The more memory in use, the more energy Mobile devices burn. Mozilla's Firefox is a huge memory hog on personal computers. If they want a shot on the mobile market, they'll need to keep the memory footprint to a minimum.

1. earthquakes change earth's angular momentum 2. whole cities may have moved X cms, altering their GPS coordinates 3. people considering building a server farm for Android's version of iCloud will now need to think of quake coverage in their hazard insurance.