They have to start somewhere. This does sort of support small business, which is one of the GOP's mainstays. It definitely leaves me confused.

Does this actual patent serve a purpose though? I have a few different Android products and my wife has an iPhone and I honestly couldn't tell you how their page turning animations differ, I just know they have one. I don't think anyone is going to confuse an Apple product with its competition based on the page turning animation. Patenting the icons and even the swipe to unlock thing (which most definitely had prior art anyway) could hold some legitimacy, but this patent just seems like something to bog down the approval system. Am I missing something?

You'll still need an internet connection though...

Sorry, missed this part of the article - "The Times obtained a draft of the report, which has yet to be publicly released."

This is from the DHS website: Link

I'm all for jumping down the government's throat for wasteful spending, but let's keep things in perspective. I also didn't see a link to the GAO report in the sensational article at the top . Here's a link to a GAO report: GAO Report I'm not sure if if is the one being described in the article, but this one came out in January.

I guess I'm oblivious to what I'm paying for then. I just thought those were perks to the online gaming. Here's the official list

I don't see it mentioned, but do Silver Accounts get the 500mb "cloud backup" too?

I'm not trying to be rude, but do people actually buy an Xbox and not have a Gold membership? It equates to something like $5 per month for access to demos, weekly arcade games, an indie game market, promo videos, media streaming, a stable staging environment for multiplayer gaming across games, etc.

Not to burst your bubble, but you'll probably need a Gold membership to use the IE browser anyways. Hopefully they launch Skype soon. That's my only real complaint.

Shhh, you'll make the trolls angry

Just a guess, but I'm thinking maybe someone traded "their iPad" for meth. That's just a guess though.

It looks like it would come out to be about $104 and change per gram. I don't buy/use meth, but I think that's in the ballpark.

I agree. It doesn't make sense to have a TSA presence if different areas of the same country feel that different standards are OK.

What is the point of conducting a more thorough search in one state if another state (Texas) is using a minimal standard? Who is in danger in this case? The local airport, the flight path of the plane, or the destination?

Wouldn't all three of these entities need to agree on the security standards?

When I was in school, there were any number of students signed up in coding classes because "there was money in computers." Numerous Comm, Poli-Sci, and English majors were attending. That being said, I do know of quite a few individuals in my current company that were hired into tech positions with English or Communication backgrounds, but have zero tech skills.

They can talk their way into tech positions, but end up causing a lot more problems once they're there. I'm all for people learning new skills, but take the time to learn them. It's great when they openly admit they have no idea what they are doing. By great, I mean that it's nice knowing I shouldn't have to worry about my job - which is fixing the problems they cause.

There isn't any real money available, we're just borrowing from the future. We're essentially breaking our system so bad that the standard of living in the US isn't going to improve for well over a decade.

Someone, somewhere has to to realize that we will have to pay all this back. Our taxes are going to go up and the longer we put it off, the worse it's going to be.

Maybe it isn't supposed to detonate yet...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would feel VERY sketchy about standing, touching, being anywhere in the vicinity of a weapon from another super power that was "captured."