from Thai relatives is that politicians and the government and judges and courts are all corrupt, take bribes, do what lobbyists say to pass laws in favor of corporations and not people.

The Thai philosophy is basically you cannot do anything about it, as even the elections are rigged, so don't worry about what you cannot control and just enjoy life. If you do worry about it and protest or complain, well the thought police will come after you to 're-educate' you in Room 101 so you'll love the government (big brother) anyway. They might even shoot you or arrest you without a warrant and throw you into jail without a trial. So don't speak back and complain and get all negative and post about it all over the Internet and draw attention to yourself so that the government notices it. Just be passive resistant, and do nothing, because if you do something there won't be anything left of you to do something for something else later.

You never got my jokes, satire, pranks way back in those olden days of IWETHEY when it was but an EzBoard and just migrated from those dull and boring Infoworld Forums. IIRC this was before the age of Slashdot.

I happen to have a Slashdot account older than this one, but I decided my Orion Blastar pen name seemed to fit it better.

None of you IWETHEY members had or have a sense of humor. It was nothing but a bunch of 'fart jokes' that you guys stole from 'Mad Magazine' and then pretended were original, clever, witty, and written like William Shakespeare in blank verse, but in reality it was more like Shakes the Clown writing in Word Salads.

Yes I am still alive, despite your assassination attempts, one of your assassins got my father by mistake because he has the same first and last name as me, and you all will pay dearly for that. I joined a bunch of survivalist pirates known as the Neo-Swashbucklers, a better bunch than you IWETHEY sissies.

I'm watching you Karsen, I know where you buried the bodies, remember that! :)

that Google will be adding all sort of 'sensors' to the cameras and microphones using a special DSP chip to process the information. You won't just have voice commands, but you will be able to make gestures with your hands in an ASL type of control using the camera. It would come in handy for the deaf and possible it can translate ASL into text as well for faster typing. Non-Verbal commands I think is what they might call it. There will most likely be ASIC chips added for SHA-256 hashing so it could process Bitcoin mining and solve SHA-256 hashes for other reasons as well.

most Cable TV subscribers have the "Basic Package" of $20/month or whatever of 20 to 40 channels they hook up an old analog SD TV into without a box. They couldn't even figure out those HD encoder coupons or why they needed an encode for local TV. If the signal is scrambled and encrypted for the OTA channels they won't know what is happening and will call up the Cable company complaining about signal reception problems.

Yeah you need a box, we'll rent you one for $X/month, they'll claim. They'll send the box, and the customer won't figure out how to hook it up. Then the cable company will send a contractor out for $300 to install it for them. At that point they will just cancel cable TV because it is too expensive and complex to figure out.

You see Cable TV makes a lot of money with the basic subscription that only needs a coaxial cable installed for each TV because it is the simplest of ways to connect to watch TV and also the cheapest. People don't want Satellite because it needs a box, and also a Dish to align, and when it rains the signal is out. People don't want U-verse because it needs an Internet connection and also needs boxes and if the Internet connection goes out so does their TV signal. The basic cable setup is the cheapest and the simplest and it also works with old analog TV sets that are "cable ready". If the cable company complicates that by requiring a box, they will actually lose customers, and thus lose income.

For a majority of your customers, try to make it as simple as possible for them to install your service and use it.