And I have cows. They can try to put a camera on my place... but this is likely to happen:

A DEA officer stops at a ranch in Texas, and talks with an old rancher. He tells the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher says, “Okay, but do not go in that field over there,” as he points out the location. The DEA officer verbally explodes saying, “Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me.” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, he removes his badge and proudly displays it to the rancher. “See this badge? This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish, on any land. No questions asked or answers given. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?”

The rancher nods politely, apologizes, and goes about his chores.

A short time later, the old rancher hears loud screams and sees the DEA officer running for his life chased by the rancher’s big Santa Gertrudis bull! With every step the bull is gaining ground on the officer, and it seems likely that he’ll get gored before he reaches safety. The officer is clearly terrified. The rancher throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs...

“Your badge. Show him your BADGE!”

How long should I tolerate your hurtful intolerance with respect to my personal value to tolerate every one's opinion regardless of how intolerant it is?

If my religion has a value of tolerating everyone, doesn't that mean, given the summary, my tolerance should not extend to hatred directed at my religion's tolerance?

I'm guessing he didn't realize the mistake until the handcuffs were put on him.

It appears possible via the broadcast message feature, where the recipients can't respond: Blackberry Broadcast Messages

Most universities offer virus protection and support for free. I'd go there first.

If for some reason they don't offer anything, I've had reasonable success with AVG.

This shirt by Think Geek fits.

Actually, I think you're over-estimating the task.

Since most "critical" tasks such as writing to a disk or communicating over the network already require handling of drop outs (SATA is hot swappable, most communication is USB based which can cut out) it should be as simple as retrying those tasks when the power comes back on. In theory this should be able to handle power drop outs. You might have to alter the OS to have effectively a journal with respect to the CPU/other hardware, but that's not a terrible problem to solve.

Just because current OSes can't handle this gracefully doesn't mean they won't in the near future.

As to being able to patent this, if the solution is so obvious and straight forward, why hasn't this been done for years? The patents likely refer to solving various problems in integrating an ultracap with a DIMM.

Thank you for proving my point. No one is expecting to use this to hunt with. You're exactly the person who shouldn't be able to head to Walmart and purchase an AR-15 or get a 100 round clip from the internet.

Let's address your two examples: criminals and the government separately.

First criminals. Short of sniping them in your yard, this gun is completely useless. For close in work, such as your home a shotgun would prove far more of a deterrent and a hand gun would be far easier to wield. A rifle like this is for long range use.

As for the government, the fact that you think having more guns will keep you breathing if the government wants to take you shows a level of ignorance. If you present any kind of threat they will in fact kill you and then blame you for it. I mean after all, look how well armed you were, you must have been crazy.

As for the term Assault Rifle, I suppose I should have said Assault Weapons, as defined in the AWB.

Here's my thing: Why does any private citizen ever need an assault rifle?

Will it stop the crazy people? No. But then again, who's going to carry an assault rifle to a crowded place other than someone who's nuts?

These weapons should be tightly controlled by the military/police.

Saying you've gotten Angry Birds on your platform is kind of like saying you got the prostitute down the street to spend the night with you.

It isn't a matter of principal, it is a matter of money.

So let me get this straight

If I have 3 people (myself, wife, mother in law) and 4 GB of data for me alone the price is $170/mo?
If my wife and I have smart phones it is $180/mo?
By comparison, if I get 1400 minutes/mo between the 3 of us that's $80. Add in the $25 per smart phone for 2 GB of data, $30 for unlimited messaging and $20 for the two extra lines it'll cost between $155/mo and $180/mo.

I guess the math does work out.

And if my wife and I can keep the data usage low it would work out to be approximately $160/mo for two smart phones or $145/mo for a single smart phone.

So basically if you have a single smart phone you can go from 2 GB to 4 GB for a jump of $25 or go down to 1 GB and save ~$20. It does seem to work out as a good thing.

https://xkcd.com/1070/

I did miss the word couple. My fault there; however, the word couple doesn't always mean the same thing depending on the speaker/writer.

That said, why does Viacom deserve a raise, when the rest of us are having to do more for less money? Are they dropping ads? Nope. Are they offering more content? Nope.

In fact from the Viacom website:
At approximately 11:50 p.m., DirecTV dropped 26 Viacom channels, including:

Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, CMT, Logo, Spike, TV Land, MTV2, VH1 Classic, Palladia, Nick Jr., NickToons, TeenNick, Nickelodeon West, Tr3s, Centric, MTV India, Nickelodeon HD, Comedy Central HD, MTV HD, BET HD, VH1 HD, CMT HD and Spike HD.

This matches with the claim from DirecTV that Viacom is double counting the HD channels.

Furthermore, Viacom pulled their full episodes of Colbert/Daily Show for everyone. They'd rather pull content for everyone instead of having a few people get access another way. That's just wrong. Viacom is coming off as a bully here.

The problem is "pennies a day" is not defined. $1.00/day is 100 pennies a day.

A 30% increase puts the "pennies a day" into perspective.

So apparently Viacom is even taking away their free streaming services to keep people on DirecTV from seeing the Daily Show/Colbert.

DirecTV gave numbers, 30% increase where as Viacom said "pennies a day". Pennies a day add up to dollars a week and hundreds a year.

DirecTV also pointed out 8 of the 26 Viacom channels going away were HD versions of the same channel, so it is double counting. I don't see Viacom countering these arguments.

In a time when people are being asked to do more for frozen wages or even pay cuts, why does Viacom deserve a raise? If they were cutting commercials sure. Giving me more value for my money, that's great. As it stands they are asking for more just to see if they can get it.

Thanks for clarifying, I haven't had a chance to run 2012 yet. Yeah, that's not right.

At what point did Microsoft need a justification for anything they do? They just do what they want and expect others to live with it. Look at Windows ME. Look at Vista. It is only when users won't pay they back down.

The article, which is based on a blog post, mentions that it is not obvious how to change the case. If you read the blog post it says they haven't settled on how Microsoft will expose a change of case feature. My guess is you'll have to customize the menu, just like what's been done in Visual Studio for years.