Its not the about size of the hardware, its the quality of the programming baby ;)

Translation:
"We have concrete evidence that bp not only dropped the ball, but insisted on risking screwing themselves over. However we're not going to say it was their fault, as they're a big oil company that pays us alot of money."
so much for biting the hand that feeds you.

and far more thorough, and paranoid. not to mention extremely programmable.

Exactly! imagine your that soldier tasked with patrolling a desert; do you have any idea how mundane that would be? i would much rather have a robot do the dirtywork of waiting in borderline limbo (no pun intended) and bring something to my attention when its worth paying attention to.

Unless they switch to another vision mode. then your just as screwed as you were to being with.

Sounds like the programmable senator couldn't "reform" his way out of a paper bag. All i read is "AT&T really doesn't want the FCC to take away their ability to rape and sell the internet by the pound(Or Mbit, however you want to see it.)" [Sarcasim] Clearly socialist commie bastards are plotting to conquer the internet and enslave the american population. Lets entrust the internet to the telecomm giants that way they can completely enslave us! [/Sarcasim] For the love of god let the obama administration do their job to give the internet back to the people.

There has to be some kind of matte screen cover you can add to your glossy screen to resolve this. even a privacy filter would probably block out a good amount of ambient light and let you see with more clarity. The whole polarized glasses thing isn't the best idea for lcd screens, and may end up being a strain on the eyes in the end.

That alone is the strongest point of it all. you can't trade in a downloaded game, you can't lend a downloaded game to a friend, blockbuster can't rent it to people (although im sure gaming companies would love to do that first hand.) and ultimately it's condition and working nature is upto the user's level of care.

When the weather changes, we don't intimidate mother nature with the threat of nuclear apocalypse to get it to change... we adapt to the situation and find new ways to flourish.
whats happened here is the old corporate imbeciles are so accustomed to using lawyers as a "immune response" to the "plague of piracy" that they really think the law is their panacea to every matter that affects their income.
what happens when the sun flares up and takes out thousands of servers and infrastructure? are we just going to sue the damn sun for damages?
the moral of the story here is like any dolt they're now resorting to bullying their way around to get an answer to the "problem".
And when it comes to piracy, students are the most abundant case overall. a large (more than most care to think) part of it is from the fact that students on average don't even have an income! If they magically cut off the ability to torrent anything illegal over the network, the student masses would simply adapt and find a way to transfer stuff without the network. Waste of time and a sad attempt at a resolution if there ever is one.

Im guessing mars could use some polarization to rebuild the magnetic field that probably existed on it at one point (All of that iron is a terrible thing to waste.) not to mention when the sun swells up into a red giant earth will get alot warmer, and mars won't look so bad then.