The European Court of Justice, Europe's highest court, has ruled that... nuts

forgot this: http://www16.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=your+mother

Just to have some fun...
printf("your mother");
printf("(C) 2009");

This post is "(C) 2009" because I am a computer... any attempts to quote or respond to this post will require written permission by my creator.

... seriously

I was going to say that I am going to patent paraphrasing as a technique for circumventing this technology, but then I remembered that would a violation of the DMCA...

Aren't the bar patrons voluntarily supplying their personal information when they hand their ID over to the bouncer with a scanner?

You cannot get into the bar in most cases without handing it over to be scanned. To reference the comparison to online privacy, you do not need to provide your driver license number (or anything personal info) to FB to "get in". Also, FB, in a perfect world, would be be able to use that information to help you relate to people, while all the bar is using it for is to log people's activities. /.'ers probably don't like the idea of being tracked by non-voluntarily databases, not the idea of voluntarily handing over information.

I got a weird pop-up last night on my Vista box, it greyed out the rest of my screen and read:

How much will you miss Windows Vista?

and had two choices:

"A lot" or "Like Michael Jackson"

Couldn't let this one go untouched:

and:

I will give you the fact that Apple has the right to provide support on whatever they want too. However by opening a my iPod box I did not sign a contract giving Apple the exclusive right to tell me what I can and can not do with my iPod. If I want to use my iPod to unclog my sink then I can. I am capable of reasoning that if I call Apple and say "my iPod broke and it failed to unclog my drains" they arent going to help me get a warranty replacement, nor help me unclog my drains.
To finish the analogy I want to use XYZ music player to upload music to a portable music player that I own then I certainly hope that I can. At the same time, I am capable of reasoning that I cannot call Apple when XYZ music player stops working properly...

I didn't really have a point honestly. I know that this is a relatively small barrier for entry, mostly just pointing it out.

About time, people have been asking for this since Gutiar Hero 1 I believe, that said, they are requiring that you get the premium subscription to the XNA creators network ($100 per year) according the link.

I've spent most of this week studying for finals, and this has been great just to leave up in the background instead of music. It's unfortunate from an entertainment stance that this is the final spacewalk, however I do realize just how dangerous that it is to be out there.

About 5-6 years ago, I decided that it would be a good idea to build a small application on a flash drive, that is, code and compile it directly to the drive.
After what must have been hitting compile a few hundred to a thousand times, the 128MB thumb drive starting giving me drive write errors and then stopped responding altogether within about a minute after errors starting appearing.
I think the moral of this story is backup your data, even when it's on a flash based drive, and don't code directly on a cheap thumb drive :)

It would be impossible to breach the contract of a website outside of the US, I believe(I am curious myself, so someone correct me if I'm wrong), however you can use Peer Guardian for some basic protection from connections from places such as MediaSentry.
And, yes, there has been questions raised before about XXAA & MediaSentry getting/not having a private investigator license:
http://delta.techdirt.com/blog/index/articles/20090219/0135273829.shtml

Exactly. Is public key crypto broken enough to need to spend any money to switch over to QKD?
For that matter is public key crypto over the internet broken?

From the QKD guy in the article:
"Conventional cryptography is exposed to threats from advances in computing power that provide for brute force attacks,"
As long as you stay up to speed (ie. keeping your key sizes up to standards), I don't see how this is an issue...