Wooooohhh... You are talking about racial profiling!!! NO WAY!!! Thats ILLEGAL, and our highly respected government officials say that kind of thing does not work... The only people who do dumb things like that are the Europeans, Israelis, and basically every other country in the world, but what do they know about security anyway???? Nope, our super high tech equipment, high paid TSA agents can smell out any problems with their multi-billion dollar budgets and super high tech scanning equipment.... Sleep safe on that flight while the TSA is on duty burning thru those greenbacks. In fact, what do the people in Europe and especially Israelis know anything about bombings anyway? I mean when I was in London last month one of the security people laughed at me when I started to take off my shoes... I recall him saying something like "dumb ass american".... I didn't worry, though because I KNOW he is the dumb one because our TSA people are the experts after all because we had Sept. 11...

I personally think this is overplayed... The worst we can do is to put the CO2 levels back to what they were in the dinosaur days... Yes, I agree that the atmosphere this time is much thinner, and I also agree that it will create a different equilibrium of weather patterns. As always, we will get by, however...

It is laughable that law enforcement needs these "tools" when they already have more than enough tools to tell them speed/direction of the auto in a crash. Also, no doubt that insurance companies love data to invalidate your insurance contract on the one rare occasion that you actually collect on your policy.

I am pretty sure that the true reason for these "black box" is to force GPS data to be collected so that it can be used by governments to tax by location and distance travelled. In local government meetings, it has been brought up years ago about the "dark side" to more fuel efficient autos (aka. Poorer people).

The one I am annoyed with is Apple. Apple should realize that this type of attack threatens their app-store model, and assume the responsibility of providing IP protection for their individual developers instead of leaving them in the cold. Lodsys has already admitted that they will not take on a big company due to the cost of litigation. Also, Apple receives 30% of their revenues of these developers, so they need to step in and provide patent indemnity for this particular case.

Look on the bright side... Hopefully this will finally get the big companies to realize the current absurdity in the patent system, and push their paid for politicians to reform the system. Their practice of building a war chests of patents does little when you have a someone like this who (like wall street and finance in general) builds nothing and has no productive business function.

So your saying sugar has an osmosis "action" to it?? Ummm... Its been a while since I took biology, but I thought cellular fluid was controlled by sodium (retains water) and potassium (gives up water)... Sugar breaks down to fructose (absorbed/converted in the liver) and glucose (absorbed in the stomach/small intestine)

Yes, I am guessing glucose must be even worse....I mean EVERYONE dies, and everyone is exposed to glucose on a daily basis, so it MUST be the cause right???

In short... Have you ever wondered that it might just be the sheer amount of calories that makes junk food so bad for you???

Yes... In fact, HFCS seems to kill everyone around the 7th decade of their young pristine lives... Wow!! Brilliant Analysis!!!

Wakeup call!!! First, the US is not an agricultural nation anymore, so, we don't really have allot of peasants... Apparently John Deere got your peasants before HFCS got a chance.... Also, the average life expectancy has almost doubled from what it was before HFCS even existed....

Also, Im having a hard time linking heart disease people becoming diabetic...

Well put me in the ignorant group because countless research has been spent on this subject... HFCS (55% fructose - 45% glucose) is no worse than sucrose (50% fructose - 50% glucose)... That problem is the sheer amount of calories... Also, the only reason they there is slightly more fructose than glucose is simply because they found it tastes sweeter this way. Meaning, HFCS actually has FEWER calories then a similar sweeter that uses sucrose...

I don't know about that... My lab mouse ate 52 lbs of the stuff and I must say I do not think he lived up to to his full potential.... I mean he just didn't seem to have that sparkle in his eye afterward...

There are reoccurring patterns clearly, but some some things (like numbers) seem to be completely unencrypted... For example, "cbe" seems to be an age identifier of some sort...

I wonder what the age of his family members are ??? 71, 74, and 75 maybe?? We need to know more of the background of this guy.. Was he a loner? A paranoid?? Where was he that night?? Where did he work... If he was "street smart" then solving his little unique puzzle will most likely require understanding what type of person he is and try to determine how he saw the world...

Guys like in the article only exist when there is cheap a free money... They demonstrate the ignorance that exists in the VC world... Programming is not a black art. Its simply what do you want to build, what is the best technology to the task, and build a plan/strategy for controlling risk and project creeps...

Give it another year to watch the pension funds collapse which is who feeds these idiots, and people like him will go back under the rock where they came from...

What??? Almost all corporate offices are VoIP now... If you are having problems with congestion, then you might want to hire someone who knows how to setup a network.

I agree with you.. by the way.. But I admit I am partial to C#... Bad taste left by old legacy VB6 customers...

However, with the current .NET framework it really does not matter. Yes, VB.NET classes definitions are an eye sore (too verbose in my opinion), but it doesnt take long to swap between one or the other... Meaning it really does not matter.

On the Silverlight... Never been there because I personally feel as a consultant that Silverlight died when Android and iOS came on the scene... Meaning, moving forward it makes more sense to push a rich enviroment to client devices than on a browser.

From a current iPhone user... I dont think it really matters....

I have an iPhone for work, as well as a Verizon MiWi. I constantly get 1 bar in various buildings with my iPhone, but love the MiWi service. If getting the iPhone thru Verizon can solve the problems I have now with the AT&T setup, I will definitely give them a try.

My only grip is Verizon not even offering the full price option. I hate the idea of the 2 year contract, and would rather just pay the full cost to not have to deal with it. Hopefully Apple can do some arm twisting like they did with the iPad...