This fits in nicely with yesterday's story about employers asking for employees Facebook credentials. Now, if you fork over your password you can go to jail. I'm constantly amazed by how idiotic many of these new laws are, violating a terms of service agreement should not be a criminal offense, mind boggling!

Instead of telling your employer to pound sand, you only have to tell them that Facebook's terms of service clearly prohibits you from sharing your password.

Unfortunately, all of the GPS devices I've used that display the speed limit, the speed limits are included with the map data and aren't dynamic.

Before you can even collect sales tax you will have to register with each state and pay for a sales tax id ($100 for CT alone). I don't believe for a second that states are going to give sales and use tax ids away for free either. I don't see how this is going to work for anything but the largest online retailers and I'm still not convinced that this doesn't violate interstate commerce.

Instead of requiring retailers to PAY the sales tax, they should only be required to remit sales logs and let the state collect the use tax from whoever purchased the goods. But, that makes too much sense and would again put the responsibility on the state to collect the money when all they really want is a ride on the internet sales gravy train.

Quoting the judge: 'the publisher lost any ability to control what happens to its books after their first sale abroad'

I'd like to see this concept applied to anything that is purchased outright. If the publisher lost the ability to control what happens to the book then shouldn't Microsoft lose the ability to control what happens to an XBox after first sale? Modifying the hardware of something that you own should NOT be against the law.

Cool...

But, where are the instructions to do this mod?

If H1B visa holders were allowed to find other jobs then there is no point in issuing H1B visas, just issue s regular work visa. The whole point of the H1B visa is to allow companies to hire people for skilled jobs that they are unable to fill with local talent. They are by design short termed and extremely limited in scope so the visa holder must leave the country when the visa has expired.

Widening the scope of the H1B visa shouldn't be an option. I'd like to see H1B visas become even MORE restrictive. Cut the number of H1B visas issued, shorten the term, limit the number allowed per company. In fact, I'd also like to see something implemented where once a visa issued for a company has expired they can't apply for another visa for a certain length of time, also require companies applying for H1B visas to fund programs to train people for the skill they are applying for visas for, something in the ballpark of $50K per year per visa. Would accomplish two goals, would guarantee that there is training for skills that are obviously in demand and would make bringing in H1B workers more expensive, thus possibly forcing companies to hire locally again.

I know these aren't top of the line but I just bought a pair of Dell S2340M monitors, $160 each at Best Buy. They're 1920x1080 and I think they screen is pretty good for the price.

I just looked at that website and browsed some of the projects. Based on how much the people putting up these projects want to spend, you probably WOULD be better off working at McDonalds.

There are NO states in the US where it is illegal to record a phone conversation. Most states require that at least ONE party consent to the recording, other states require all parties to consent to the recording.

If you want to record phone conversations you simply have to state that the conversation may be recorded for quality control purposes. If the other party doesn't hang up or object then that is implied consent.

DAMN - That should read 'This is NOT 100% accurate'.

This is 100% accurate. When you license a song you have to pay two fees. The first is for whoever owns the copyright on the song, the second is for the actual recording. So, Coulton should have some recourse for his 'recording' of the song being used.

I was under the impression that end users were paying for bandwidth they're using. Now ISPs want usage paid for by the user AND the content provider? Nice business model.

Not a netbook, he wants a tablet PC. There are still a few companies putting out tablet PCs and they really are ideal computing instruments. Most are slightly larger than the tablets that everybody is used to but there's only so much stuff you can cram into the current tablet form factor.

I believe the collector market is dead for comics simply BECAUSE there was a collector's market. Once Marvel (and others) started releasing Limited Collector Editions it was the beginning of the end.