For the first generation or so.

Then it will be put on a single chip and mass produced. Look at cell phones. The first ones used discrete circuits and were big and heavy.

Just need some moral outrage from some news (um entertainment) channel, some mother wailing about "child privacy", and a politician needing exposure.

Rinse, lather, repeat...

And then the box detects its 'blind' and refuses to run your movie

At which point I return the box/tv set, yell at the salesperson, and behave badly.

This is like the Panasonic patent which blocks channel changing during commercials. Some *AA exec is wetting his pants, but the public WILL NOT put up with this.

This kind of intrusion is a revolution just waiting to happen, sheeple or not.

Then I patch it as far as I can over their 56k modem.

Get Autopatcher and update it from a CD BEFORE you connect it to anything.

You can always use a splitter. It has one male and two female ends.

Can't find one? Then splice some Cat wire together

Offtopic?

Threads on Fark have reached over 20K posts. People are setting up proxy servers to allow outgoing Twitter messages (bypassing Iranian firewall filters), with several people giving out do-it-yourself proxy kits. There is an active Go Green campaign and protests planned in many cities. Posting of relevant Twitter messages to keep everyone informed.

Somewhat on the forefront of the Netwar I would think.

Hardly any time to post. Spending most of my time on Fark

What freedom?

We pay a surtax on every CD sold here. That surtax goes directly to our version of the RIAA. They in turn are supposed to distribute that to the artists etc.

Which is why our Supreme Court decided that music downloads are not prosecutable.

I am not responsible for adhering to someone else's idea of a business model.

IOW, just because someone has an idea of a layout/content they want to flog on the Internet, it does not follow that I agree with that idea. If they were to provide layout/content with which I agree, then I would not want to modify it.

Is that so much to ask?

I hope not, 'cause I want this too.

I read a book where the computer/brain interface was done by injected nano-machines. So no external gadgetry needed. And practical telepathy.

As a programmer, I anticipated the Millenium Bug almost 20 years beforehand

So did I. But some companies still wanted two digit years because it was "too hard" to enter four digit years.

In 1998 I made a killing :-)

Artificial limits for artificial price points

Can you imagine another company doing this?

FPS Starter Edition - 3 weapon limit
Word Processor Starter Edition - 3 page limit per document
Spreadsheet Starter Edition - 3 formula limit
UML Modeling - 3 use case limit

There is no meta key, and it bothers me because my thumb tends to hit ALT because the meta key moves everything over. So the spacebar is smaller.
The bottom row is:
CTLR ALT SpaceBar ALT CTRL

I love my keyboard. It has the clicky keys, but it also has:
- duplicate function keys down the left side. Great for one handed CTRL-F? etc
- NO win-idiot keys (nice wide space bar)
- built-in LCD calculator (top right corner)

When it dies I will be sad. I have tried to find a replacement, but other than a one-off specialty buy...