it's worse than that. nearly all material on the internet is copyrighted. even this post i am typing. how are you supposed to know if you have my permission to view it?

on the surface this seemed fair to me. if you're under contract, then the phone isn't really your property yet.

but then i remembered that if you break contract they charge you the remainder of their investment in the phone +a little more (just 'cause), and they don't reclaim the phone. so yeah, this is pretty stupid.

I just saw it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz ...Prosecution of the case continued, with charges of wire fraud and computer fraud, carrying a potential prison term of up to 35 years and a fine of up to $1 million.[50][51] One of Swartz's lawyers revealed prosecutors told him two days before Swartz’s death that "Swartz would have to spend six months in prison and plead guilty to [all] 13 charges if he wanted to avoid going to trial."[52] After Swartz's death, his attorney Marty Weinberg told press that he "nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time", but that bargain failed because "JSTOR signed off on it, but MIT would not."[53]

Here are the links 50 and 51:
http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/9/534.full
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-government-ups-felony-count-jstoraaron-swartz-case-four-to-thirteen.shtml

True, he might not have gotten the full 35. I would even feel fine placing a $20 bet that he would get a shorter sentence. For him the stakes were much higher. To me the threat of such a sentence seems like a form of psychological warfare.

Well, even though he was young at 26, he was facing 35 years in prison. So he would have possibly gotten out when he was 61, maybe earlier with good behavior, but who knows.

options:
a) End your life at 26, you'll be remembered well by your accomplishments and won't have to suffer.
b) A stressful slog through a court case that will leave you in jail for a very long time. In jail the boredom is broken periodically by suffering. If you survive jail, you'll get out, when you're elderly, and then maybe you'll be able to re-acclimate to society after you've spent more than half your life a prisoner.

in the article they talk about de-orbiting satelites. so, those were likely the other places.

I wasn't trying to be funny. These kinds of stories are a problem that should be addressed.

No

only if you ignore wound location entirely.

damaging internal organs contributes more to lethality than muzzle velocity. one could be shot in the hand with a .50bmg and have a better chance of survival than a .22 in an organ such as the heart/lungs/brain. unless you follow the "hit point" thoery of medicine.

merely saying that it is often more difficult to diagnose damage from a .22LR than a .223 (which is faster, heavier, and more expensive) because the .22 often doesn't exit, and it does bounce.

according to wikipedia he used a bushmaster xm-15, which is basically a semi-automatic m-16 with a 16 inch barrel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmaster_XM-15

your dad was probably using an adapter to shoot .22LR bullets through his M-16 to save money
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/ARR-059

differences in the catridge here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22LR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington

EMTs i've met have more trouble working the .22LR shootings because it often tumbles and is still in there somewhere, where as the .223 mostly makes wounds like hamburger but at least isn't still in there.

not trying to be a dick or pick a fight. actually a firearms enthusiast.

vector window objects have been around for a really long time. x even does allot of that stuff. i think e17 uses them allot.

only ever tried a little 2d opengl programming, but the 3d cards i used then (before programmable pipeline) had no hardware support for 2d ogl functions. that being said if you used the 3d functions to draw 2d elements (and leave all your z values 0) it was really really fast.

but i think it's all been static because display resolutions were static for so long.

resolutions basically went up slowly, then hdtv hit the mainstream with "1080p" actually lowering the bar, and only now that apple has pushed the buzzword "retina_display" are the mainstream consumers wanting more than "1080p". not an apple fan by any means, but i'm glad someone has been pushing a little bit for dpi.

i saw a video where someone made such a hat (the lower powered model i mentioned). yours might be do-able with an IR laser from an old cd-r drive. then perhaps a combination of the two, where you approach with the lens flare hat, and shine the ir laser directly at the lens. i don't know what the use-able (damaging) range is on an ir laser, or if that's really a factor. anyone know how far away you can be with a blue one and still light things up?

this!
http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

what about a hat with infrared leds, and a 9v battery and resistors underneath. once night vision kicks in your whole face becomes a lens-flare.

Car analogy, huh?

Bentley... Expensive, Heavy, Thirsty, Status symbol.

I think you're entirely correct.

Though with all the nasty DRM, lately (and unfortunately) I've been gaming on consoles.