I wonder how long it will actually take to phase out bluetooth. I mean, that tech has been around forever and never really caught on outside of phones.

Comcast is not a monopoly. They are pretty close, and they certainly operate like one in certain local areas, but on the whole there is competition nationwide. So trying to prosecute under monopoly statues is impossible.

Oh what a coincidence! I think this is the same strategy the US uses for drug and patent policy. It all makes so much sense now.

lol, beta testers in '09. D3 won't start into beta until 2010 at the earliest. I would be the game doesn't hit shelves until 2011 or 2012.

One only wonders how long it will be until every spreadsheet process becomes "business critical" to override restrictions such as this.

I wouldn't bet on it. Although given the glacial pace that the IEEE has set here, I wouldn't be surprised if nothing at all had changed.

This entire battle means nothing anyway since Microsoft won't be implementing support for the video tag. And since IE is still most internet users nothing has changed.

I can agree that the price seems outrageous, however I would say that cheap is fairly applied here. Also note that the product does not seem quite ready for mass market consumption (something which drives price down much more), and until it is I suspect none of these devices will ever seem "cheap" to you.

I think using SQL injection hasn't qualified as "hacking" since it showed up on XKCD.

The argument for DRM in the car MIGHT fly in cars that are leased (which in my lay-person's brain sounds somewhat similar to a license for using software), but there can be absolutely no reason for preventing me from accessing information on something that I own outright.

Its not like I bought a license to drive the car (that was provided freely (sans a few yearly fees) by the government of my state), I own the metal. What possible argument can there be for preventing me from reading the information in my car's engine?

Except you can't use gets, because the subject of the sentence is you, not everyone else. It may be popularly used, but I'm pretty sure even in British English no one would ever say: "You gets out of bed."