It used to be a sophisticated light weight feature rich firewall for windows.... it allowed rules and whatnot.... now... its a bloated flaming pile of sh*t sinking with a horrible company that deserves to be put out of business for its questionable marketing practices and horrible customer support.

do you have a copy of the schematics? id so, i would love to take a look.... im sure it would be fairly trivial to build/flash such a device if the full schematic existed? My guess is that the schematic needed for this to work isnt "readily" avalable, and wont be for some time (a few months?)

there is no way to do HDCP decryption in software on a computer, this is all handled automagically by the controller on each end, HDCP only exists "on the wire" because as soon as it gets to eitther end, the controller decrypts it and handles content protection from there.... cracking HDCP allows ANYONE to build a new controller which is able to link up with existing HDMI equipment and decrypt the information without all that nasty content protection stuff as well, but to do this the HDCP decryption would need to be on-chip in a custom built HDMI interface, which is not easy/cheap to do (according to intel), so until complete schematics and a flashrom show up, this is pretty much useless to anyone wanting to use it.

wow, that was actually a very imformitave link... mod parrent up! I have never really sat down and read about the reasons for standardizing the power frequency until you posted that!

50 light years is relatively close, cosmically speaking. It has taken 50 years from light from this diamond to reach us, thats pretty damn quick, the point of the GP is about intelligent life out there, they are likely hundreds of millions of light years away, if not more. The milky way galaxy alone (but a small drop in the bucket cosmically speaking) is 100,000 light years across, and distances only get astronomically greater from there, so yes light from this diamond is not from a "long time ago" but many things in the sky which we have observed are from a LONG LONG LONG time ago.

and while it is illegal to steal a physical copy of a dvd form a retail store (this would clearly be theft) copying the information ON the dvd is not theft as it does not deprive anyone of the orignal. This is the definition of copyright infringment. Theft is physical, copyright infringment involves using the IDEAS (or the resulting work comming from the idea) of others. The point here is that a stealing a car deprives someone else of that physical good they bought and paid for, copying data however does not deprive anyone of what they have, it results in loss of revenue for the creative mind behind the work (or more likely loss of revenue for the greedy corperate overloards that tricked the creative mind into tranfering rights to their work for a small sum of money).

Actually auto piolet can take off and land a plane, what it cannot do at this point is runway taxiing. The problem is that in some cases a human can deal with unexpected circumstances better than a computer, so it is advantagous to have a human pilot onboard, and redundency is always nice incase one is injured/rendered unconcience in some sort of accident. However it would be feasable to eliminate a co-pilot if airline attendentes were given basic flight instructions (emergency landing/radio operation). In the grand scheme of things, i personally would not feel comftrable (at this point) with the knoldage that there is only one HUMAN on the plane i am on capable of manuvering and landing said aircraft.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot (shows that take-off and landing autopilots do exist)

actually it more likely would have led to a system where user generated content is dis allowed because there is no other way to block copyrighted material.

so you've copyrighted all empty files?
i think i have some prior art that nullifies your copyright.

*wont make that less of a problem

There i fixed that for you, grammar issues aside, modern nuclear technology does not have the same waste issues that plants of the 60's and 70's had. If you would like to read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium is a great resource. Although this fuel is not 100% perfect, no "clean energy" method is. Every method we have of producing energy on this planet (reasonable method, not talking about putting everyone in giant hamster wheels or anything similarly stupid) can be argued to have negative environmental impact on the planet. Out very existence here can be argued to have a negative environmental impact on the planet for that matter. Also when you make such a bold accusation, it would be helpful to cite sources to prove your point (because if you had you would have most likely discovered the advances we have made in the field and probably not opened your mouth/keyboard about it)

Because a lot of politicians and "regular people" are scared shit-less of nuclear power because of incidents like 3 mile island, and chernobyl. It becomes a NIMBY issue, no one wants the plants anywhere near them, and they will fight vehemently to prevent them from happening.

to cmdrtaco!

You are still incorrect, shifting into neutral should not kill ABS or power steering, while turning the vehicle off will kill both, at high speeds power steering isnt as much of an issue, but abs would still be useful to have. Toyota itself recommends depressing the brake, shifting to neutral, and if all else fails shutting power off, then immedently pulling the car over and turning the car off.

sources:
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/document/Floor_mat_Owner_Letter_sample.pdf (instructs the user to shift to neutral and power the vehicle off)
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/how_to_deal_with_unintended_acceleration-tech_dept
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/resources/streaming/PDFs/cr_suddenunintended-acceleration_012910.pdf

and to the GP
Most cars have "rev limiters" which should kick in preventing any damage to the engine while running full throttle in neutral, this should prevent any rods from being thrown, which while not usually fatal (their usually angled up and away from the seating cabin v6/v8, or are vertical/diagonal and aimed out the side of the vehicle inline4/inline6 which would most likely not make it out of the motor compartment after loosing force penetrating the head) could cause alarm.