touchscreens however are unique as you can use designs as your password instead of having to enter characters.

I would image that newport beach gets very few people checking out books from it's library (shit i don't even know where it is). As you said, newport is very rich and most people there would opt to just buy a book and now with kindles/nooks checking books out from the library makes even less sense. Plus if you live in that area, you go to the massive huntington beach library if you want to go to a library.

That being said there are plenty of other ways they could be saving money that doesn't take away from something as important as education.

> Firstly, the fingerprints are not 'taken' but searched.

Pretty sure a warrant needs to be issued for the search part of "Search and Seizure."

> Secondly, I would like to hear more about the "many issues with the accuracy of fingerprints" because in my career as an AFIS engineer, I have never had an issue.
According to a review of NISTs' review, "the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of the time." 99% is pretty inaccurate in my opinion for something like this. That could mean that 1 out of 100 people pulled over my be falsely arrested.
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/fpvte03.cfm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040716080142.htm

i have a 10.4 install on my intel based mac mini.

your situation doesn't work because receiving a message from the future would alter the chemistry in your head, changing something vs the guy who never received anything and sent one back.

If however you sent a message back in time to someone else and told them to deliver it to you at some point after you send the message back in time it would create a shrodingers cat situation.

The reason that there's no great open source games is that there's no economy for it currently. Once someone figures out a good way to earn money from resources other than selling the game you'll see more open source games start popping up. Once mmo's start becoming more popular on mobile devices I think this will start changing. With MMOs you can collect a lot more money from monthly service rather than cost of goods.

Basically it will be, pay $1/month for this game or pay $1-$5 one time for the game. At that point it would be useful (at least not a detriment) to open source the games so that you can save some money on future development costs.

I don't pirate games, but I also don't usually buy any either. The reason for that is I really have no idea if a game is good or not until i play it. Therefor the only games I have bought for my phone are ones that offer a good free version that can continue to keep me entertained. I assume there are at least some pirates who think the same way. $1 may not be much, but I'm not about to throw away $20 looking for a game I enjoy which I would only be willing to pay a dollar or two for.

Perhaps your entire game should be free and make money off advertising instead? Then you don't have to worry about pirates.

I think it should have more to do with the minutes viewed rather than the cost of an actual show. If a company such as netflix assumes that you can watch 720 hours of shows a month and gives the show distributors 7 cents for each minute their shows are watched, then they can charge the viewer $52.92 a month and be able to pay the distributors from the money received from the consumer even if the consumer watched shows all day long. That would mean a 24 minute episode of something (which is the normal time of a 30 minute show) would receive $1.68 per viewing. Also most viewers wouldn't watch anywhere near 24 hours worth of "television" a day so there would be a shit load of profit for netflix. Personally I'd be willing to pay $52.92 (not much more) if i could select any tv show or any movie I could possibly want to watch at the time I wanted to watch it.

Of course then comes the question of how many televisions you have in your house which you want to watch simultaneously, but that could all be sorted out without much change to the cost.

This made me take a look at cox as well since I currently have uverse. Cox in my area has the "Ultimate Package" which is a 50/5 connection (for $99/month but there's a deal for $49 for the first 3 months). Their 25/2 which is about the same speed as Uverse is the same price as Uverse. From what I can find from what people have reported is that this is a 300GB cap but cox never enforces their caps. So I think I'll be calling up ATT to cancel my uverse subscription this week.

"Students under 16 are required to be in school, so if they are truant we have to spend resources to sends truancy officer after them, then the kids have to show up in court, etc."

That's a state by state thing. I went to school 5 miles from anaheim and was truent enough to get kicked out of 4 schools between 7th and 10th grade. There were no truancy officers sent to come after me or even call my parents. There was no court I had to attend. All that happened was that there would be a meeting between me, my parents and the principle where it would be decided that the best thing for me was to start going to a continuation or alternative school (which I would end up getting kicked out of as well).

What exactly do you think these things are going to do? If my school gave me one of these things, i may have used it but not to check in.

i doubt that any of the kids were the ones to volunteer. also anaheim is a pretty ghetto so a comparison to the "hoods of baltimore" wouldn't be that far off.

I agree. We need to have a multi-peer verification system for authoritative domains.

By the DHS making restitution I assume you mean our military spending will increase.

uhmm, it would be REALLY easy for sony to create a program to monitor what movies you watch through your ps3 and look at what content your streaming servers are offering, then report it back to sony. Since sony is part of the RIAA/MPAA i could see this as being very likely (not by targeting me personally). As far as the network security goes that's actually what I did last night, went out and bought a new media player and set up my ps3 in a DMZ. My network was/is set up securely enough so that they can't sniff traffic but they could interact with other machines on my network since it needed to access the media server. The only way it could have been more secure is if it was in a dmz and could only access the streaming media service on my network (which would still not solve the situation I'm describing) but since the ps3 wasn't available to arbitrary incoming traffic from the internet before I didn't see it as necessary. Now that it is (or it may be, i'm still not totally convinced this article is legit), the machine now needs to be isolated from the rest of my network (for general security reasons, not just attacks from sony).

as i somewhat stated in another thread, the problem is that the firmware updates held sony responsible for what your ps3 did. as in anything unethical/illegal could be tracked down to a firmware update. Now sony could cause your ps3 to do whatever it wants whenever it wants and you can't prove that they did it.