Bullshit. One of the first things we're taught in EMT class is to look for them.

As an EMT who has attended a number of MVAs I don't need no black box to help me determine whether there was a significant mechanism of injury. I'm certainly not going to be spending time fannying about trying to read out the black box when I have patients who need my help right now.

I'm sufficiently well trained to determine for myself whether someone requires treatment and I don't see how information from a black box is going to "facilitate" the limited treatments I am permitted to perform as an EMT-B.

That said, if law enforcement can retrieve info like speed, accelerations etc and transmit that to the receiving facility I can see the utility.

I can't believe how little protest the remote attestation aspect has generated. From TFA: "To prove a client is healthy, the anti-malware software can quote TPM measurements to a remote verifier."

How long before that becomes "The XYZ software can attest that only trusted software components are running." Big content are going to love this capability.

A united flight from Dulles to Heathrow back in January was a comedy of errors. First plane was withdrawn from service before we boarded due to mechanical issues. The second plane we got pushed back from the gate and then pushed back in so they could top up some fluid or other. Finally four hours into the flight we turned back to Dulles as the toilets weren't working.

Seriously! We only had 4 hours left surely we could have continued on, it was 4 (*&^ing hours either way.

The primary reason I purchased my wife an ereader was to save me much physical effort. She gets through a phenomenal amount of books and when we vacation she takes one book for each day of the vacation. A 3 week vacation in Spain last year meant half a suitcase of books and that's heavy.

The ethical considerations of DRM etc paled in comparison to that. It's also saved me about 18 feet of book shelf space and counting.

As many have pointed out a second monitor is a cheap way of keeping a dev happy and I'd not argue with it. Where it costs me is time for my admins with the extra set up required for a non standard system. To discourage this anyone wanting a non standard desktop gets to pay the extra for it. This puts off the majority of people as they cannot make a cogent case for why they need it. Especially when I tell their supervisor about virtual desktops.

About the only people who do actually get a dual monitor system are the developers.

Don't get me started on the quad monitor systems!