The sad part is that is true even here, just look at how quickly the "truther" slur is trotted out whenever anybody asks why anything better than the frankly piss poor at best investigation wasn't done for the 9/11 attacks, like the government has never lied to us.....except for that "pesky" Gulf Of Tonkin thing that left 50,000 Americans and probably a couple million Asians dead....oops.

If there is one thing Wikileaks and Snowden should have taught us its that the MSM of pretty much every country is nothing but the puppet of the state and is about as truthful as Soviet Pravda.

Of course, neither political party is anything like they were when Abe was around. In most issues they have swapped position.

Actually, in most places people have been propagandized to THINK they swapped position. But when you look at how they actually voted on various subjects (civil rights laws and Internet censorship, for two of a host of examples) or how the programs they produced actually worked out (The Great Society for just one in a host of examples), expect to find that the alleged swap is mostly smoke, mirrors, and very effective political propaganda.

Thanks. If you want dirt cheap media tanks check out Amazon as you can find ones like this all the time and unlike a used laptop not only does it look nice but you can easily add anything you want, BR drive,SSD, plenty of RAM and HDD, and its easy to add.

I've used the E350 a LOT at the shop and was impressed enough I sold my full size lappy for an E350, its THAT nice. HD videos, office work, hell I've played Torchlight and Portal on 'em and they are great little chips, all while just using 20w full load and 9w for most tasks. A word of advice though and this goes for ANY APU system...ALWAYS get the faster RAM, in fact if it comes down to 4Gb of faster or 8Gb of slower take the 4Gb because that AMD APUs really need decent RAM to shine. Nothing crazy, no need to OC the RAM, 1333 or better will do nicely. One of the barebone systems I picked up came with 4Gb of 1066, I did benches before and after I switched it for 1333 and depending on the tasks I got as much as 35% more performance simply by having the faster RAM, its THAT noticeable.

Sure when you show me a box that is an actual PC and not a thin client for that price, otherwise the comparison is moot as the Chrome isn't a PC, its a thin client. Here is a mini with SATA and wireless for $159, just add a RAM stick and unlike ChromeOS you aren't giving a corporation every single thing you do online...yay!

I'd be more worried about a bio-bomb as that would be the perfect carrier, hell you could infect the passengers and use them as the "payload" and then fly it over a large heavily populated city and blow it up at 10,000 feet, voila! the diseased body parts would be spread over a large area and cause maximum damage. To hamper cleanup you could always mix enough uranium to make the whole thing "dirty" enough to cause a panic and slow the responders to a crawl.

In any case I think there is more than a simple hijack and crash going on, too many conflicting stories to be that simple.

For anyone who ever hoped to see liberalism take hold in this country, it most certainly was. Unless the country splits into two (or more) new independent nations soon, it will likely be decades before we ever get a chance to actually reform the health care system or any of the other ridiculous social injustices in this country.

Again, I ask where you see an "unlock image" in what you just said. I also ask where you see Micron's device "continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display." In Micron's patent, you draw a pattern on a static screen. No unlock image is displayed, and nothing follows your finger. It's just not there. Micron describes part of the first step - detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display - and the last step, but does not describe the rest of the first step or the second step.

Thank you for admitting that you haven't yet addressed this part of the claim.

All you've said is: "Micron describes everything in the patent! ... oh, wait, no it doesn't... The Neonode video describes everything, though! ... oh, wait, no, it doesn't... But, uh, ignore both of those failings and my inability to actually find anything that shows that last bit of the claim. It's not novel because I say it's not!"

And sorry, your word about whether it's novel or not isn't enough, just like you can't claim someone is guilty without any evidence. If you haven't found the evidence, you haven't proven jack squat.

People frequently get "bored" when someone calls them out for making unsupported conclusory statements. "Bored", of course, meaning "frustrated and ashamed".

beta is no joke, that's serious damage to the business

sticking the money in your shorts or mattress makes one immune to inflation?

this has *everything* to do with bitcoin, there are no regulations or laws to ensure quality of code. The dollars in the federal reserve computer network do not have this issue

this is a bitcoin failure, there are no regulations or insurance to insure held bitcoins are safe or even exist

bitcoin is not a currency, it is not money, it fails liquidity and other requirements that real money satifies

- oppression.

The word is oppression. How about this: you have your government regulated banks and I have my banks that are not regulated by anybody, that's the way I prefer it.

Again, this should all be covered by the company that wins the bid. If they don't like it, they shouldn't bid on the contract.

>because most of the requirements are out of date,

Contractor's fault. If the requirements are impossible, tell the customer and don't bid.

>were written by somone who had no idea what they were asking for

Same as above.

>or are missing critical pieces of functionality or details.

Same as above.

>Then you find out you need to integrate with a 35 year old Wang mainframe that runs some weird esoteric algorithm that no one alive understands.

If that's in the contract you signed, you need to do it. If it isn't in the contract, don't do it, or re-bid for that portion.

This would all be much simpler if both parties simply adhered to the terms of the contract. If the terms are unrealistic or impossible, don't bid.