My roommate came home back in '93 with a bootleg copy of the original game. After we installed it, we were concerned about "going to HELL," so we called id Software.

"Hi, we're calling because someone gave us a bootleg copy of Doom...
"And...?"
"We need the address, so we can send a check... how much do we owe you?"

The person on the phone, after recovering from their shock, gave us the address, and told us to make sure to include OUR mailing address with the check.

A few weeks later, we received a boxed copy of Doom, and a bunch of other cool swag.

Look at what schools are calling Computer Science / Engineering to boast their names, and you'll find that it includes installing Windows on a whitebox computer and blindly running anti virus software.

These institutions are garbage and should be labeled as such.

You missed unstable price fluctuations, no roadmap for ubiquitous deployment, and shady exchanges. I'm sure that there are more.

I believe in reasonable, non discriminatory regulations. There are times when Corporate Personhood can favor us in this scenario, too. A lot of activities are seen as "restricted to businesses only", however, as they are a legal person, and you are a person, they cannot have rights that you do not have.

That being said, any regulation should allow an individual to engage in the same activities as a corporation would enjoy with a drone. I think that the regulations should be simple. If flying over private property which is not yours, or without permission, the vehicle may not fly within 150 feet of a structure. If flying over private property, video footage captured over the private property should not be retransmitted, sold, or stored for any duration of time, unless a crash occurs. If flying over public or private property, an independently-tested system should detect the altitude of the vehicle and whether or not it is in free fall. If it is detected to be in free fall, and the altitude conditions warrant it, the system should deploy a parachute which is rated for the weight of the vehicle. Such systems should have an independent power and sensor source. Think of something about the size of a hotdog on the side of the vehicle. This should reduce injuries and property damage, and such systems could be made and sold as individual units that could be fitted on existing vehicles. Again, they would only be required if flying over private property without permission or in public places that aren't parks, etc.

Regulations such as these should respect everybody's rights. Existing laws about stalking, eavesdropping, and prowling should take care of any other problems that could be encountered, and we shouldn't be too quick to create more complex regulations unless new problems arise that aren't covered by current laws.

I'd love to see a Petabyte-Scale Tape Storage System that looked something like this, only modernized: http://youtu.be/Nq3mNYKR7FM

That's not relevant at all, however.

CItation needed.

Squeak Smalltalk was done by Disney and Apple, is pure-OO, and is very, very easy to teach.

Yes, because it's bouncing off of particles and such, however they are measuring the speed at which the signal meets the other end in a point-to-point scenario.

Which begs the question, how much faster would fiber optics be without air in the line? I imagine it would be negligible, but it would be nice to know.

Century Schoolbook 12pt font is good enough for The Supreme Court of the United States, it should be good enough for any of them. Lazy attorneys use Times New Roman.

I am not a lawyer, and more importantly I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advise; if you require such advise, contact a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

The commenter is probably another shill trying to discredit tesla through bad press.

With all of the invasions of privacy by all the console makers, we should neither support or encourage these companies by purchasing these products. Once we have realized that video games are simply a mechanism of the ruling class to track and control the masses, the better we will be.

Imagine an Internet where anything that wasn't unencoded unicode or ascii where only recognizable dictionary words and standard protocols were allowed.

Imagine everybody being restricted to running iDevices where they could not install any unauthorized software on their computers.

Imagine that if it were encrypted, the government always had the private key, and the encryption was only there as a facade. The only public keys you'd have on your machine were the government's decoy keys.

Imagine if all software developers were targeted by the government with surveillance and public scrutiny to ensure that no illegal tools were being built.

It isn't that hard to foresee this future.

Your lawyer? Any real slashdotter would represent himself all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States and change every other precedent set before them.
Just ask one, every true slashdot user knows more about the law than anybody else in the legal community.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, more importantly I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advise and should not be construed as such.

If you can't defend something, you can't own something.

I also think that it's worth noting that there was no barrier that was broken, other than the fact that it was another unit higher in the base 10 system. There is no news here.