I *can* have a scientific discussion with my doctor. I have probably read more research studies about vaccines than they ever have.

My children do not need three doses of Hep B vaccine before one year of age; there is so little chance of them being exposed to Hep B that it is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that it would be beneficial, especially in light of the fact there is documented morbidity and mortality associated with the vaccine.

Evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity to chicken pox is better long-term than vaccine induced immunity, and the handful of fatal cases of chicken pox each year is no excuse to impose the vaccine upon my children.

Besides, my kids are still fairly well protected thanks to herd immunity from all the idiots who blindly shoot their kids with this crap without bothering to ask any questions or do any research.

Yes, that's exactly what internet poker sites have done following similarly harsh legislation and DoJ actions against the major companies (including taking over their .com/.net/etc domains). They block you from playing real money games if you've listed a US address or log in from an IP geolocated in the US, to avoid getting into any more trouble with the DoJ.

Too bad you didn't provide links directly to those websites, because then if SOPA/PIPA were enacted and the domains were declared by the DoJ to be dedicated to infringing copyrights, Slashdot itself could be censored until your post was removed.

Both of those are better than what I got. My check from the eBay settlement was a whopping $0.02.

...firmware updates update firmware!

Do they "ask" about pre-installing crapware when you first buy the phone? This was an ota firmware update, and they changed some of the pre-loaded apps. I'm much happier about the carriers providing ota updates and working on a solution to let end users "remove" pre-loaded junk from their phones.

My family has 5 laptops and 2 desktops as primary computers, plus three smartphones. I have ways of storing my music centrally and making it accessible, but the simplicity of a cloud service to make it available at home, at work, at a friend's house, when I'm visiting my family, when I'm on vacation...

Plus, if this service turns in to something like Lala, they can provide cheap access to music you might like to listen via streaming to but don't want to bother paying full price for. I'll pay $10 to have 100 songs I can listen to on demand whenever I have internet access way before I spend $10 for a single CD.

Thank you, Google. Ever since Apple bought Lala just so they could shutter it, I've been waiting for someone else to fill the gap. Apple will have a hard time buying out the competition this time.

Do you know anyone with a one of these phones? Me either.

My wife was the first person I knew who had an Android phone, and it was when I bought her a Droid this past December. That was quite some time after the G1 came out, so I guess Android bombed too.

Oh, what?

But less so than you already are today. At least with this approach, it's a lot cheaper to later upgrade such a chip, because you don't have to buy an entirely new chip to get the features that were disabled on your old one. Given the two options, I'd choose this one.

Wouldn't say it's a hoax... This keyboard PC has been on the market for years. This company sells it as the ZPC (for Zero-footprint PC).

Frankly, I wondered why it took so long for someone to decide to rebadge one as a Commodore. It was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it.