Did you check on what they are actually doing. Wicked lasers is not connecting their device to light sabers, it is other online reviews of their product that are doing that. Go after the sites posting the reviews, not the manufacturer for making the connection. Their device looks more like a normal flashlight than a light saber.

The best thing that these guys could do, would be to make a logical push to help Linux get deployed at large business. Hitting back at the "mean" superpower will accomplish nothing but make them look like jerks. Get the masses to work against MS and then the can get something done. Most of the vulnerabilities that have been found recenlty require so many, what-if's to be in place before they work that it is unlikely that anything will be put in the wild to take advantage of this. Would be much easier to create a Flash based attack on the general public and be done with it. I am sure that MS weights the potential use of the threat when they develop a plan of which items to fix. The assumption is always, that the newest item that we know about is the most dangerous, but that is just a narrow perception of what is going on.

WIKILEAKS!!! Here is your next big thing to publish. If anyone can get that info out to the public to protect our rights, they can do it.

If you read the orignal post he is talking about voice recognition, where someone would speak into a phone and text of his vioce would be send to someone around the world. That sounds like Google Voice more than a crackberry. In any case the basic portion of this was done a long time ago by AT&T when they worked on phones for the deaf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_device_for_the_deaf

I wonder if they will have to stop giving out crayons at Dennys and other places for kids. I know that makes me want to eat there. I suggest that there is little that you can purchase at most chain restaurants that would fall in a menu plan put out by a dietician. I suggest they should tax the meals $50 each if they do not come up to good health standards and maybe people will eat at home. Of course then they will just pop out some boxed dinner which may be even worse.

This may work in testing, but does the field that is required to make the solder melt going to have impact on the very delicate circuits in a CPU or other chip. That is why the details are closed, because there are other problems.

I suspect that many sites that are using this type of content will find ways of hiding that fact by using non-display characters, breaking the article into multiple pages and the like to cover the fact that they are using the content. Would love to see their system in action on some test sites to figure out how much you need to do to cover the content and make it not match the original.

This will make it much easier to take down the government. We will only need 100 bombers to take the data centers offline instead of 1,100. Just think how many fewer families we will have to reward for that.

Actually, it does sound like a good idea, but after working for larger companies, it will not go as smooth as they would like since someone will be holding onto an old AS/400 that no one knows how to change the IP configuration and the pointers to the printers.

Just so you know, I do not think he is actually going to go supersonic in the true sense. He is going to fall faster than the speed of sound at sea level, but the world operates very different at 100,000 feet. If the air pressure is great enough to cause a sonic boom, his weight will surely not be enought to push past that barrier.

I feel sorry for the people that are already deathly afraid of flying since they will be the ones taken aside and questioned and further searched before getting on the plane. It will surely reduce air travel and thus reduce the number of people at risk.

I think random searches will be about as effective as what is done today. Security checkpoints are just a warm fuzzy for people traveling. I could still get guns onto an airplane if there was enough motivation to do so. The attacks from long ago now could be completed the same way because the guns came from the tarmack. Smuggled in in some other items that were to be shipped.

Spend the money on tracking people down before they get to the airport. That is where we can stop terrorists. If someone is caught at the airport checkpoint it will cause as much scare as them setting something off on the plane.

Once IE has less than 15% of the market share, it will become the safest browser available. Anyone who assumes that other browswers are really that much safer are diluded. If the majority of people use a product on their computer it becomes a target. Once the market has flipped, whoever is on top will be targeted and will show all of its holes to the world.

The only way to protect a computer from attacks is to never attatch it to the internet, or train the user not to go to websites that are not trusted. OS issues are the same problem, no one would ever think of writing a hack/virus for a commodore today.

So just teasers to get us to buy her books!!

I think that the number of fake listings has overwhelmed anyone trying to make up such a list and therefore there is nothing useful in getting this award. I am not sure this is even the group that started this stuff up. Maybe just someone that wants some ad click revenue to pay for their annual christmas debt.

BTW, good job on taking their servers down slashdotters.

I dream of a day when products can only claim to do something that has been proven by unbiased testing. If the result that is desired is known and the testers understand that fact, they can make nearly any test say anything. Herbal items are not forced to be tested for safety or effectiveness. This is a problem since there are commercials and magazine articles that tout the benefits. If all of them were created to some standard and it was proven to work, then it is fine, otherwise they should just be able to say. This product may do something for some people and no more.

Where these get used, the snow is cultured and is make of evian drinking water with a stable PH that would do no damage to your metal combination. Static buildup on the other hand could do some real damage to the joints between the different metals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_corrosion