I can't help but feel this movie (which more accurately should have been named "Flynn's Legacy) was nothing much more than an introduction to a franchise series. Too many obvious loose ends. Tron basically resets, but then is left floating under water (water?) leaving his status a mystery. Sam basically downloads the grid onto a memory card (that smartphone of his apparently can do anything), then makes it a point to hang it around his next on a chain. The corruption of ENCOM is left unresolved (excepting that Sam decides he's going to act the role of major shareholder). Edward Dillinger's namesake is introduced at the beginning of the movie, and is obviously setup to seek out revenge for his father.

I saw no mention in the study on verifying the accuracy and quality of the ebook version. I myself have some of Hemingway's work on my Kindle and was frustrated at how poorly they were converted to ebook format.

I've taken note many times how I tend to chew through books a lot faster on my Kindle than I do with dead tree books. Except those books where I find myself stumbling on misspellings, typos, etc... sometimes to the point where it was obvious an entire word was misinterpreted when going through it's OCR process. When I stumble upon a book as poor as that, my reading speed slows to a crawl.

I find it amusing that in the thread where they recant the bans... the community manager goes on to explain that forum guidelines have been edited to explain that admitting to using or promoting one (adblockers) will result in a warning and then a perma-ban.

After which he goes on to admit and explain how he uses an adblocker.

Well that makes it all okay then doesn't it?

Let's just dismiss that he supported the French in suppressing slave rebellion to include funding and providing weapons. Never spoke out publicly against slavery. Signed an act that allowed hunters to enter free states to recover runaway slaves. Supported only whites to become citizens of the United States. And only supported emancipation of his slaves as long as he could find a buyer to pay him for it. As well his 'secret will' to free the slaves was to go into effect after his wife Martha died (who incidentally died after George).

George inherited 10 slaves, and by the time of his death had hundreds of them.

But hey... after enjoying the benefits of slaves his whole life; then to make them free after not only his own death, but ensured his surviving wife enjoyed the benefits as well until her death... to let them all go when you're done with them... that makes it all peachy.

It's not the publisher handling the DRM, but rather the distributor. Amazon handles their own DRM, and you're not locked into one single device as they will send any ebook you've purchased from them to multiple devices you've registered, as well keep them sync'd between devices.

If Amazon finds the cost of maintaining DRM on their books negligible and still willing to maintain a lower price for ebooks, more power to them. Why should a publisher even care what a seller charges for the ebook? It's not like the seller is paying the publisher any less.

A coder with great math skills can write some really slick algorithms. However, more often than not, despite how well their algorithms are documented, if they're working with a team of developers they are usually pushed to dumb down their code so as to accommodate the skills of everybody else on the team ('team' more accurately meaning 'project manager') to make it more 'readable'.

Yes, however there is a difference. In the VZW-Microsoft deal, while they claim Bing is the Default search engine, it is actually the only search engine available in the BlackBerry browser's search tool. All other search engines were removed completely, as well there is no mechanic in place to add new search engines. Whereas with Mozilla you still have all options left intact, and you can add more as well.

Nah, it just means that all those Trekkies who wasted away years of their lives obsessing over Star Trek lore and continuity can no longer get into heated debates to show who's a bigger fan with any new installment.

Well, not for the next decade anyway.

errrm... In that scenario wouldn't you already be sitting on 21 and therefore not need the jack? Besides which, the flaw in that line of logic is that the next card coming is the one You need. The moment you start assuming that, you've already lost because you're not playing the odds anymore.

Remember that if ever a site is available that points somebody towards your credit card/bank information.

Probably none...

Simply because there was no 'program' running that identified the woman. A police investigator used a database as a resource, and as a result he was able to track down probable leads. He followed up with police in her new locale to confirm identity, then apprehended her. If it turned out not to be her, the detective would have not apprehended her, and simply gone on his merry way.

DHS isn't running a program to nab people. They simply maintain their database and make it accessible to other law enforcement agencies. A detective was able to use the shared resource and couple it with a little bit of ingenuity and was successful. This is a good thing.