Of course it is. Buyer is in one state, Amazon in another, and the goods it transfers may be in any other state or even from abroad. It is just as much interstate commerce as shipping things across state lines by truck. Also note that the government has claimed interstate commerce covers even things like someone growing medical marijuana in their own yard to be consumed by only themselves. So no way the government could get away with claiming this is not interstate commerce because it involves the internet.

I agree. The government has turned millions into unpaid government tax collectors. It is disgusting. I am glad Bezos is pushing back.

Note that the control rods were put in immediately when the quake started which would have dropped over 94% of the heat production immediately. Note that the fuel rods are each a pellet of fuel well separated by zirconium laced material that takes 2300 degrees C to melt. Now it is true heat would build up over time with no water at all but it seems pretty unlikely that that much melting would have happened.

Also please please keep in mind this was an antiquated design a few weeks from end of life facing a once in 300 year disaster. Using it to bash all nuclear power, which we desperately need and all types of reactor design, many of which are three orders of magnitude safer, is inexcusable fear-mongering and intellectual laziness.

Look, without Mono you can't run serveral projects in the cloud without paying Windows stupidity tax. You can run them on anything but windows if mono falls apart. Like it or not C# is at least as good a language as java and arguably better than c++ for many types of projects. We don't want to lose c# from the non-windows open source world.

As C# is the basis for some very important to me projects this is not in the slightest good news to me.

Starting today I am plotting my escape from Amerika. It is no longer the country of freedom.

This is ridiculously stupid. The core control rods have been in since the quake. A BWR cannot go above 250C as long as water flows even without the control rods. The fuel rods take act least 2200C to melt. The reactor vessel would contain it even if somehow you managed to make the control rods disappear completely and there was no water. Is this the same reactor as the original brouhaha was over over or a different one. Can't be the same one since its core was exposed on purpose to sea water which would make in non-operational. So what is claimed is not possible.

There was some circumstantial evidence of some melting shortly after shutdown at quake time due to residual heat of secondary reaction products. But those decay very very rapidly and drop temperature. Also coolant was restored and the reactor was flooded with cold water which would remove all heat. So this article is pure bullshit FUD and any geek that pushes such to slashdot should have their geek card revoked. I have had enough of this crap.

Has this dude heard of parallels, vmware and other virtual machines? It is not an either or. Use you mac tools and goodness and linux or windows bit at the same time as needed. Not that you couldn't use the bits mentioned from OS X but it does not matter so much when you can also use whatever native from other OSes you need to when you need to.

iPads don't use anymore bandwidth than any other device will that you can watch over the air video on. iPads cannot in principle do anything at all any other computer cannot do. This is pure gouging. Note that it is the cellular carriers themselves that have pushed video on command. The goal is good enough broadband that these and many many other applications can run for everyone everywhere. This is not achieved by nickel and dime-ing us.

Glenn Beck is a government shill pretending to be anti-government. Check out his rolling over on FEMA camps and using as his expert guest the very same Popular Mechanics mouthpiece that gave the worthless purported rebuttal of all 911 truth positions years ago. The man has no credibility even with those of us who agree the government is up to a ton of no good. Beck is an opportunistic hypocrite who will do anything for a buck and a pat on the head from government. The day I take his word on anything is the day I get a permanent medical marijuana license, a trailer in the middle of nowhere and do my damnedest to stay well drugged for the rest of my life. For it would mean my mind had obviously deteriorated beyond hope of recovery.

This is pure gouging. My mobile platform is just that, a platform, a computer in my hand for interacting with the rest of the internet. To insist that if I right an app for my mobile platform I have to get Apple's permission to offer it to anyone else and that I give Apple a cut of 30% if I charge for it was bad enough. To now insist that if my app interfaces with anything else for sale whatsoever that it must be sold through Apple as well for another 30% is absolutely beyond belief. Tell Apple to Stuff It in no uncertain terms. Buy Android phones, jailbreak your phone, do whatever it takes to show Apple who owns what and who is just a provider of tools, not the robber barons we must all pay tribute to at every turn. I love Apple products. But I will not pay through the nose at every turn or be coerced in what I can do on my own devices.

What happened to you Steve? You started with the rest of us homebrew folks believing in computer power to the people. Now you are just a stuck up, greedy suit out to squeeze your customers every way you can. Screw you.

Read http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/01/the-kindle-kerfuffle-update/. The only thing that has really changed is that IF the app offers purchase by tossing you in the browser *on the device* THEN it has to sell to offer the same content through the app store. It is is no wise the case that the Kindle App is threaten or that you aren't going to be able to read your kindle books bought through the web normally on the iPad or iPhone. Only one path, in app purchase outside apple store, is in the least affected. I don't know about you but I always buy my books on the Amazon web site, not from within this or any other iApp.

This is FUD. There is no way Apple is going to kill the iPad as the best Kindle out there. There is no way the book marketplace would agree to a 30% Apple tax either.

DHS is a much greater threat to the freedom and security of the American people than any number of terrorist that have surfaced so far or who are ever likely to surface. This anal tyrannical behavior can only succeed when we the people say "oh, well this next extra annoyance isn't so bad. So I have to be scanned down to my privates to get on the city bus?" It is time to say "HELL NO" consistently and loudly. Otherwise expect more and more of the same. Of course most people have zero backbone and will go along with whatever until it is far too late to refuse or far too costly.