I would like to know this too. PC batteries are the worst, they last 1 year or 300 cycles. Macs are far better, rated at 1000 cycles. But it's still not good enough considering the life of the product.

Sorry about your teeth. Why did you let it get to that stage? And haven't they come up with anything better than dentures yet. I guess its too late now but just fyi I've been using an Oral B Triumph electric and the last time I went for a checkup, the dentist said no work was required, just cleaning. So electric works good

Correct. For something like this to succeed, we need many people breaking the law. We need a whole country of people videotaping police officers in public, and posting the videos on Youtube. This is what will be required if this guy loses the case or is put in jail.

Online education is for people who pay to get degrees. If learning were so easy, there would be no full time students. The fact that you expected more actually, is surprising.

How about people like me, who haven't one anything, let alone getting caught?

that I like this system, especially because nerds will probably know better, but the "socially adept" will probably be raped many times over the period of their lives about the time they got drunk, their vomit, their stupid tweetz, etcs. ha

Do what I do. I exist and consume services. I don't put my name against anything online. Even if you found me, you wouldn't know anything about me. It's bound to pay off once every second person has crap coming up when they are googled. I automatically eliminate at least half the competition this way.

nice one, wish I could mod it up.

I think the best option while ripping is do the highest resolution and file format that your mobile device uses. E.g. in my case ipod touch 2G supports 640*480, and x264 which is what I use. That is good enough of casual viewing on a TV or computer as well.

It's not just the most of one 1TB drive, but the continuous problem with keeping one running out of space. Though I have the bandwidth, I keep DVD quality backups. Even then, my over 3TB space is running low, not to mention the hassle of interchanging external hard drives.

This is exactly the sort of news I come here for.

They got us with DVDs nicely. At that time it was cheaper to buy DVDs than hard drive space. Everyone bought spindles of DVDs and stored everything on it, only to lose it all a few years later, not to mention the extreme hassle of dealing with the media, sensitive drives that failed frequently, inability to delete/rewrite easily etc. I remember the pathetic week I spent salvaging whatever I had on 200 DVDs onto an external hard drive.

  In my opinion optical media is dead and will probably only have a use case as far as selling retail movies etc. It will all go electronic in a couple of years and then we'll look at this time as the stone age.

If this new disk is only 20 times bigger than a Bluray, why should it be able to store 50 HD movies? Shouldn't that be like 20, unless the definition of 'HD' has changed again?

"Now the question is how it may have used — and secured — all this private information."

Great, and after this investigation is complete, Google will have all the ideas it needs on how to use the info it collected.

I take it you've not seen the idle section yet? That should show you the other stuff that gets posted here.