I actually think I saw this happen at the Pittsburgh airport this last week. A Sikh ahead of me was told he was selected for a light screening after they looked him up. A TSA agent basically walked him directly to the millimeter scanner without having him remove any of the normal articles. Bags still went through the x-ray, but he was essentially expedited through the process. I didn't pay much attention after that, but it struck me as odd at the time.

Since when is it not the companies responsibility to train their employees to do their job? If the job changes while you are there why should you be expected to keep current with the technologies on your own time? If you want him to do things differently then train him on it, if he's not willing to adapt to the new methods then fire him. I do resent the idea that younger, faster, more curious people automatically assume that the level of effort THEY put in is the standard. Some people jobs are simply a means to a paycheck and nothing more. Others its more important than their hobbies so they care more. Each company has a culture that exists and if a person doesn't fit that culture then its time to move on. Some people are content with Operation Enduring Paycheck. Its not hard to keep a job once you have it.

People don't need your permission to record you in public.

If they turn around and publish it publically that is a different matter, but in general recording in a public place is not against the law.

It's not like the existing currencies don't take any power to produce, maintain, transaction, ect... Just saying that mining costs power is just a means of cutting down the idea of digital mining. The same could be said about SETI@Home and a hundred other distributed computing projects.

I'm sorry I'm tired of this money is fungible BS. I pay taxes, I do NOT directly fund the library. When I give my money to the government as taxes, I trust that they as an entity will use the money for the benefit of the COMMUNITY not me. So I don't get to say where the money is or is not spent other than to elect my officials.

This is the exact same thing as the bank not being able to tell you that you can't go out and spend all your money on drugs because you still owe them $3000 on your loan. Once the money is no longer in your hands, it is no longer your choice where it gets spent.

The library's mandate is, more than likely, to provide a free, open, public source of knowledge and reading. The source of those materials is up to the library to decide to provide. That may be buying from a local bookseller, it could be from buying from Amazon, or it could be a lending system that is partnered with Amazon and therefore is subsidized by that advertising. The Library has NO, ZERO, ZILCH requirement to answer to every tax paying citizen as to its actions. This may be a democracy or whatever you technically want to call it, but one thing it does not have is a mandate for every government entity to answer to every tax paying citizen. If you have a problem with how tax money is being spent take it up with your representation given to you by the constitution, your elected officials.

Only to the "film-o-philes" just like the audiophiles love their analog. Does mean that it has any place in the mainstream market? No it doesn't I have never seen a resampled film that looks better than one created entirely in this generation of technology. You may be able to get more "res" from the film through additional sampling, but every nick, tick, defect, fade, and scratch is lost forever as well. So to say that digital can never get better, well it also means that you shouldn't ever have to buy a "digitally remastered" copy of your content either. When you have it you have it.

You never throw anything away? It never wears out and is no longer useful? Just because a piece of digital property might go away one day doesn't mean that it hasn't served its purpose and value.

Seriously...the end of the end.

I thought that too, but its nothing but a scare tactic.

I got one of those letters after I downloaded 900GB in a month. I've since exceeded the cap more often than not but usually not more than 350-400GB/month max and I've gotten no other indication from Comcast that they plan on taking further action against me.

Either there is no teeth behind Comcast's cap, or you have to be one of the worst offenders on their list to show up on their radar.

Except if there is any kind of monkey business like prior collusion and such can cause serious issues with the merger. I know that the major tech merger I was involved in had the two companies all but ignoring one another for almost a year until the merger was complete.

Personally if the company is as close-knit as you make it sound why not just ask for it?

I can't imagine that the stake-holders in the company would be so offended that you asked for stake in the company. Unless you're thinking about storming into the office and demanding it, there is no need to assume there is going to be any hostility until there is some.

I'm on Comcast in MN.

Works fine for me.

This is why the OtherOS option got removed in the first place. Tell where else you can spend as little as $800,000 or less to have a decryption engine that is probably capable of decrypting even the strongest of keys. Some say that it was a cluster like this that was used to decrypt the Military footage that Wikileaks released and that's why it got killed. The PS3 has a very powerful core when used in a raw unhindered state, especially for the price tag.

I've signed a non-compete at pretty much every job I've worked in the last 10 years. They just don't enforce them unless they have something to gain by doing it.

A vast majority of people are not worth the effort to block. MS must really be afraid of what this guy can do to try and enforce it or have a grudge

Because it worked the first time around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI

This won't work for anyone and its stupid. Besides if you are going to make a Happy Tree Friends video at needs to include blood and death or what's the point?