What kind of moron takes something that "look[s] like a cell phone attached to a remote control car with some exposed wires protruding" onto an airplane?

Pshhh. Remember Apple's ImageWriter LQ? 216dpi baby...

We keep asking for more intelligent and/or rational application of Copyright laws, including people bitching about draconian use of lawsuits, etc.

The alternative is something like this. IT'S NOT YOUTUBE'S FAULT. Youtube discovers someone else has uploaded this music and (presumably) claimed copyright over it. Someone "else" uploads it, and their software catches it. Good job, Youtube. The "original" artists should work things out with the other group, and/or sue someone.

Just not Youtube.

I'm not sure who their supplier is, but the Verizon Navigator driving directions are far and away superior to Google Maps here in San Diego (and a lot of CA, it seemed this summer). More than worth the $10/month fee for me. YMMV.

Way the bury the lede there.... If "most of the better" doctors don't take tricare, shouldn't that tell you something about socialized medicine?

What I'd really like to see is a merging of the capabilities of system level and interface level scripting languages. The interface guys are all in AJAX-y Javascript land, while system-level scripting (at least on a Mac) is through AppleScript -- HyperTalk for the OS -- and well-formed apps. Reintegration would be awesome.

Remember this? http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/

App Store and iPhone locking notwithstanding, I don't think it's a nefarious user-cannot-be-developer intent (though I'm sure many Slashdotters will disagree), I think it's simply where the market went and Apple's over-extension got the better of it.

Gedankenexperiment... lol.

Some day in the far future, there *will* be a Domino's Pizza (or it's corporate successor, or some other popular food chain) on the moon, just like you could get decent KFC on base in Iraq even during the height of the war/insurgency.

Virtually all projects large enough become defined, constrained, and shaped by their logistics instead of their preferred policy or plan. Right now, if you wanted to get it built up there, it would be expensive. I could see bored teams at Halliburton/KBR coming up with spec sheets for this kind of stuff as an exercise on off-days when the number of contracts coming in is low.

Nice way to stick that one in... How about tax cuts for ALL Americans? Or just tax cuts for AMERICANS. Instead, you're complaining about people making $XYZk a year as being the reason the next update to general relativity isn't made.

The nice thing about tax cuts is it put the money back in the hands of the person whose money it is.... the Taxpayer. If you feel that the blue-sky R&D is important (like I do), then go cut a check (like I do). Don't confiscate from others to venture on your own (cf the Electric Car story above)

Not that I'm expect much in the way of impartiality here, but...

"During the Bush Administration"? There's a subtle bit of tweaking going on there... it was passed by a Democratically-controlled Congress (albeit with a Republican pushing it, who has now mea culpa'd and is leading the drive to repeal it) and stuck in a 300 page energy bill.

Background:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-10/need-a-light-bulb-uncle-sam-gets-to-choose-virginia-postrel.html

And for more of the right-ward/libertarian spin on why this is a dumb idea, just keep scrolling:
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/?s=bulb

I was writing in in Applesoft Basic in 3rd grade on the //e's in our classroom, and it compiled! =P That puts me at 6/7..

There's a picture somewhere of me reading http://www.amazon.com/Serious-Programming-Basic-Henry-Simpson/dp/0830626506/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308770040&sr=1-1 with a stuffed animal next to me. /nerd