While that decision was very questionable and has some terrible consequences, I think it pales in comparison to the effect of the Filburn decision. The Filburn decision was a massive expansion in Federal power. Using the twisted logic of SCOTUS, Congress could basically justify any law they wanted to pass. Until United States v. Lopez, Congress had a largely limitless power under the Commerce Clause. Even using a liberal interpretation of the Commerce Clause, most federal laws in place today are probably not Constitutionally sound without the Filburn decision.

Kagan was recused from the case because she filed a brief in the case as Solicitor General. Her ruling in the case would have represented a huge conflict of interest. The only time situations like this occur is when you have a new justice that served as a lawyer previously. The only reason it happened so much for Kagan is because as Solicitor General she submits briefs on many cases at the appellate level.

Wickard v. Filburn is easily the worst decision the Supreme Court ever made. The twisted logic that they went through to conclude that by not participating in commerce he had effected commerce and was therefore subject to regulation is absurd.

How do you know that what we have is optimal? Just because a keyboard is fairly fast and is what we have now does not mean it is even remotely close to optimal. For most office tasks it is probably better than touch screens, but that doesn't mean we should stop looking for something to replace it. Maybe it is optimal and we never find a worthy replacement, but we won't know unless we try.

I really enjoyed both those sets of missions, but I loved the driving missions. Getting bronze to progress the story was really easy, but gold was a real challenge. I did it after many hours on a keyboard and had a claw of a left hand for hours after I finished.

Most of the ways I've seen discussed to do this are with speed sensors in the phone. That means if you are moving faster than x speed your phone won't work. The end result of this is that not only can you not use your phone when driving, your passengers can't use it. You also can't use it on a train, a completely passive activity.

People will find ways to use their phones. All these bans do is make them be more discrete about it. When will politicians learn you can't legislate away stupidity.

Personally I want to see a woman wear sweat pants through the checkpoint and wear fake silicone balls under them. I would absolutely love to see the look on the guards face when she runs into those.

I thought the exact same thing. I've first used Fedora Core since 3 and almost immediately switched from GNOME to KDE. Especially now I would definitely take KDE 4.2+ over any version of GNOME.

You're right that they no longer emphasize that point, but I think that's mostly because they don't need to. They did a great job associating Sync with Microsoft when it first came out. That association did a great job building the branding of Sync. Now Sync has its own brand recognition and they don't need to push it as Microsoft product and they can let it be associated with Ford.

Yes the division has lost billions, but it is currently profitable. They spent a fortune establishing a foothold in a well established market when the released the Xbox. With the 360 however they had already carved themselves a place and are making a profit now. They may have still a net lost for the division, but it is definitely currently a money maker.

It's not even that. At the point that Marty mentions knowing her name, they haven't changed anything yet that would stop her from going into the canyon (I could be wrong about this, been a while since I watched number 3). Therefore nothing in his past would have changed yet and he would still know her name. It's only after they interfere that Marty would forget her, but then he interfered and would obviously know her.

See isn't time travel fun.

Why wouldn't Marty know the name of the teacher? At the point that he mentions her name she is still on track to go into the canyon. For Marty nothing should have changed.

No you failed. From Wikipedia:

The production of butanol by biological means was first performed by Louis Pasteur in 1861.

That Butanol would have done him a lot of good in 1855.

I disagree. Visual Studio with ViEmu blows them both away. Truly the best of both worlds.

The simplest solution is to have an encrypted file that doesn't look like an encrypted file. Jpg with a TrueCrypt archive attached at the end is never going to be detected unless someone is explicitly looking for it.