What is sad is how much resources Flash loves to use. I have an older laptop that can't play a Flash game with graphics equal to the SNES without it using up 99% of the processing power, meanwhile I can play PC games with actual 3D graphics... Wouldn't be so bad if the Flash games didn't lag like crazy too... Once Adobe releases Flash 11, everyone will probably need at least a quad core processor just to use flash content at half speed.

I suppose you could have the system print out the vote and only allow one print per ID. That can lead to some technical concerns. Also the question of whether or not that vote submitted, was altered in any way before it was print out due to the system already being compromised. I don't really see how you can have perfect voting system, whether it is electronic or not. They all have their own sort of failures.

I think the education process is the most important part. Over the years is seems the teachers have lost the interest in caring about how their students are doing. Or they just assign work and leave them be unless a student asks for help. In case of my education, most of it was self taught. Teachers proved to be unhelpful, and merely just dispensed work and tests. Majority of the students didn't do very well because they had parents sometimes working two or more jobs and they just could not teach themselves.

So as a person to teacher, make sure you aren't leaving your students behind. And don't just bury them with work either. The most important part of the education process is to keep the student engaged. Boring them with repetitive tasks and useless facts only makes it harder for them to learn. If they aren't doing well, be supportive and try to determine why this is so. Sometimes giving a damn does do wonders in the classroom.

Ofcourse the article mentioned that the land was needed for part of... Which probably means Apple probably already have bought all the other land and needed that one remaining piece for their jigsaw puzzle that will become their new data center. My guess is the couple knew this and held out to get as much as they could from them. Smart decision really.

I dunno, maybe our fortune cookies are just more fortunate? I can pop in an old backup from the days of Windows ME (also known as Meh Edition) and it works just fine. I just tend to have difficulty with ones that are scratched like crazy from the days of unreliable scratchy CD-Rom drives. Perhaps it is more about the general treatment they receive or the weather conditions? Though I do agree with most who say how unreliable floppy disks are. The newer they are, the less reliable they seem to be.

I wonder if they had to flip the Moon over halfway during the process... I know I can't get good results when I forget.

I don't think copyright should last any longer than 25 years or until the death of the creator. Whichever is longer. I don't believe people should be getting enriched long after the original creator has died. Copyright wasn't originally intended for that, It was intended to protect people from getting their work stolen, usually by large companies.

I also don't think ISPs should be included in the cost here. They aren't the ones with something to protect yet the cost is being thrown to them. Ofcourse as a business they will just pass it onto customers, so in the end it is just a tax on customers by corporations. I am sure there is going to be a lot of hush hush going on, but I bet people will start getting enraged when they find out they are paying to be spied upon.

The minister of communications must be an idiot if he actually believes what he says. This would actually benefit the creative economy? You know... them going after some of the people who aren't paying customers to begin with. Ofcourse there is the other side of the market they risk alienating as well. The people who download and later make a purchase because they liked it. They might become afraid to download something and then not purchase something, therefore reducing profits. What will they blame when that happens? As you mentioned before there is another useful group as well. The ones too poor to afford it but able to provide good word about it. Word of mouth and online reviews can go a long way to increase sales when a product is good. Corporations can't seem to factor that into their profit estimates, but somehow can make up imaginary losses. Many people these days don't tend to buy something on a whim. They realize there is just too much garbage out there and have usually been screwed at least once before.

Google could initiate said prosecution still if he used the data to commit a crime. They for sure have grounds for a civil case.

Exactly. The United States allows itself to get pushed further and further behind everyone else technologically all because of greed. Eventually it will get to the point where developing countries will just roll by the US.

You, like this article, seem to confuse laziness with efficiency. Why do more work than you have to? If I can use a calculator faster than I do the math in my head or on paper, what is the problem? It allows for someone to do a higher volume of work with a lesser chance of errors.

If you couldn't Google something, can you imagine the time it would take to go through books to find your answer? Besides, being able to store large amounts of information does not make you smart. If that was the case, computers really would have already taken over the world... It is not about how much you can store, it is knowing what to do with the information when you have it.

Just tell them to make sure they waterproof it first.

"Meanwhile, how do I know if I'm alreadt pwned?"

When your computer wears the colors of the Machines and attempts to hack government computers to launch nuclear weapons.

Also forgot the mention the ability to record your voice and have it as audio or be translated to text similar to speech to text software.

Getting ahead of yourself there. First you need to be able to identify all the cancer cells and then know the person won't die instantly if you did "beam" them out. It would do wonders for moving cargo that is for sure. But don't forget the energy consumption as well.

I thought that was the early appearance of the creative use of sea shells?