The reason the cameras were ruled illegal in Springfield was because of the way the tickets were handled- the City treated them as administrative, and not criminal, infractions. While this avoided "points" against your insurance / drivers license. At the same time, as an administrative hearing, there was no appeals process and the evidence for a "conviction" was below the thresholds of a criminal case. The State Supreme Court ruled that the infractions were in fact criminal, and as such the City had to change the way it handles cases. To my knowledge, the cameras are still not used.

Also, Springfield shortened their yellow lights in an effort to "standardize"- http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/17/1759.asp

It depends- for example, my wife bought me a Nook Color a couple years ago from Staples, and bought the protection plan. About 3 months ago, it wouldn't start. I called Staples and within 2 hours my wife had an email from Staples with a electronic gift certificate for the original purchase price. I replaced my Nook Color running CM10 with a Google Nexus. I bought another protection plan for the Nexus based on that experience.

There are other products I don't purchase them for (such as video games or toys for my kids), because the failure rate is very low, and I'm not into throwing away money.

My thoughts on your (potential) need for a 3D printer is to chose what technology you want your enclosures built with (from the sound of it, using FDM to extrude ABS). From there, find someone / somewhere in your local area that has a printer on par with your budget, and see if they will print you some enclosures or what it would cost. Quality of printers varies widely, and it is good to evaluate the technology within your usage and price point. You also need to consider the product's end-use - if you use milled aluminum today, is 3D printed ABS a viable substitute?

I checked out the article and website, but there are not pictures of parts printed with the system. Was there no proof-of-concept, just a few photoshopped or empty shells made for these product images? On the other hand, it does look nice, although with 3D Printing looks don't matter that much.

Transparency.

The W530 is "mandatory" with the tech side of our business, but has a good reputation with them- they like it. I just ordered more T530s to deploy to our Sales, replacing aging T61ps. We'll see what they say. We have one ThinkPad Edge, and that's the only one we'll ever buy. For my use, I've liked the W530, but I don't use a laptop every day.

We started with the T61p, then W500, W510, W520, and now W530 at work, and that line has done well for us. The switchable graphics in the W500 sucked- we ended up giving that to an office worker, and used the T61ps for engineers. We also deployed a T530 recently, and it was still built in the "traditional" style. We purposely avoid the "consumer" style ThinkPads, and the clit mouse is a must.

It makes me wonder, reading some of those reviews, how HP can claim they didn't know that Autonomy wasn't worth $10 billion. The reviews go back years, and in general would convince a prospective employee to think twice.

The problem isn't whether or not the PS4 can play used games- it is whether you can get the used game onto the console in the first place, and if the game publisher's DRM allows you to play the game.

Just shoot your hard drives. That's what Adam Lanza did, and all the media reported he "left no online trace".

the Newspaper owners demonstrate why they should not own Newspapers. They lose their cool and react in hate and threats. People who are that uncontrolled can't be trusted to operate a Newspaper under stress or for the right reason. They should have their Newspapers taken away until the grow up. The Gun Owners published what was on public record, so the Newspaper owners try to intimidate the Gun Owners - threaten death and violence- for publishing something they didn't like. but is readily available. W T F Fixed that for you... it works both ways here.

A few problems with your post:

• TVShack hosted links. See here for more information. All TVShack did was create a one-stop source for links to content, and that is what pissed off Hollywood / the US.

• Hollywood doesn't spend all their money making shows, and shouldn't kill people for it.

• Anyone can "rip off" (AKA "fork") Libre Office and sell it for cash- they just need to make the source code of the fork available. That's part of the freedom of the LGPL.

I think part of the problem here is you know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to make an informed decision- just like the type of people in Goverment / Hollywood who start this crap. If TVShack hosted content, then prosecute. If not, then pass a law against linking to copyrighted content and prosecute if TVShack is still in business at that time.

I remember seeing this in the past... but we used the 7 P's: "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance"

You're right, I wasn't. I was there for my Brothers- I fought so they can come home. Iraqis be damned.

I'll proudly say I served... USMC Reserve Veteran. I did two tours in Iraq (volunteered for the second) with the infantry as a grunt. My education was interrupted for that second tour. In the end, I laughed more than I cried, and I wouldn't trade my experiences away. Of course, I got out after 10 years... and I have no desire to go back until we can fight like we need to. Politicians (and cowards) are why we are losing our wars.