Indiana is not one of those 50 states, either.

The people who let the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement thingy suck up their bandwidth to report feature usage are precisely those people who pin everything.

I thought the name came from the ball being originally a foot long?

What do you mean "if China ... makes its own ISA or microarchitecture with silicon-level censorship and monitoring, or an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies?" I would expect that is their true motivation here. Any other reasons given are part of the cover.

It does.

I, for one, welcome our new top-contributing Microsoft overlords.

I would love to see local building codes released for free to the public. At least in my city, the only way to get them is to pay around $200 for the book, which expires annually.

I like the comments at the end of the article. There are people who recognise this may block someone's 911 call and say it's just collateral damage and the people talking on the phone should be blamed. Holy shit - blame the law abiding people, not the law-breaking?

The closest thing I saw to common sense was a comment that said "These things should be banned." I agree. So does the FCC. Which is why they are banned, ie illegal to own, sell or use!

I want the people in my office to shut-up, but I don't get to tell them to. I just put in ear buds. Duh.

I know it seems like it should be cheaper for Verizon to accept electronic payments, but I once worked for the company that ran their web application servers. Verizon has outsourced that job. The convenience fee likely goes to the outsourced company.

My water bill incurs a $2.95 "convenience fee" as well, and that goes to Western Union. They run the website and transfer the money. For that, they get the $2.95 per customer per payment.

The company is happy because they don't have to process the payments, run the app servers, or pay for the service. The provider is happy because they get all this money for $0 marginal cost. The customers get the shaft and don't complain loudly enough.

I bought a Canon T3i several months back. It takes great pictures and my photos get compliments. Couldn't be happier!

Adding 42 years worth of data results in big number!

Pretty sure the bill of rights says we have to save the cruel and unusual punishment until after the conviction... Oh that's right, we're all guilty until proven innocent, cary on.

I strong to the finishk, cause I smoked me spinachk...

Think of the ships on 'Deadliest Catch' during a storm.
Do you want your data stored on those platters? Pitching / Lisping 30 degrees or more? How is that handled?