Which would lead to police breaking the rules regularly with policies to dampen the blow of punishment, or reimburse officers on big cases.

Sucks that he got away with it, but this is the only way.

Depends on what you are doing. Want a warent to force someone to take a DUI test? Easy. Body turns up in someone's back yard? Easy. Placing GPS on someone, a tad more time consuming.

Though from the length they were tracking, I am betting waiting a few days wouldn't have killed them.

An important thing to note that this case was obvious to the justices because a tracking device was placed on the suspects private property. This ruling is very limited in time constraints, and methodology. Can they use GPS tracking on things already present on the vehicle? No answer on that yet.

This was clearly intentional on Rand's part to get a photo-op. This doesn't prevent him from still being right, however.

So when someone gets cancer are you going to tell them to workout more, or do you want to test their gene expression profile and match it against a drug that targets a suggested pathway?

Good to hear. I know plenty of my professors stopped asking for textbooks at all and used more online resources (or just expected us to look up those kinds of things ourselves)

I still worry about the administrators though. Bet a lot of money is running through those bookstores.

In effect our consitution protects the press, which was a technology to bring about free speech. I doubt anyone would object that the internet is an extension of that. But then again, that doesn't demand that the government build you a press.

We should just subsidize adding more supplemental material to wikipeida, and then making an app to collect it for review, then compile it into book form.

In the case of textbooks, its not the schools robbing the students so much as publishers robbing students. I am sure there are kickbacks involved to keep the whole thing rolling, but cutting out the middleman is probably in the student's best interests.

So basically they want Wikipedia in a book form?

The tools to fix this stuff exist, they just aren't done yet. You can still get them if you are willing to swing by their IRC channel.

Except it doesn't. Not really. Even Zen Garden's pages are simplistic, and include empty divs just to be used place random decoration. The dream is that the HTML would declare data, and classes for that data, and the style tells the page how to look, but it really doesn't work that way. In a practical enviorment, the HTML and the CSS are coordinated. skinable platforms like JQuery use Javascript to ease the pain a bit, and dynamicly generate that html, but CSS honestly adds very little, and comes with a lot of headaches.

In previous version they offered an upgrade path, usually half price for having windows already. But when you are on XP, Windows 7 is two versions away, and replacing the operating system for my two person household costs an extraordinary 400 dollars for no exciting differences. No thanks. That is a huge barrier. For a gamer family, that's cost prohibitive.

Now should I more than double that cost to put windows 7 on it, or should I just use the xp key from the last system?

You seem to be confused. I mean a monetary upgrade path. I am perfectly capable of backing up and moving files.