there was... Remember Stage 6? DOA thanks to MPAA lawsuit.

Pulled out of own ass.....

Interesting....I think you have stumbled upon the long lost "infallible peer review" method....

Interesting idea, actually...Humans will respond to torture, bots will not....

the trick is how to measure human suffering?

1. Use your fancy Harvard Credentials to Sue somebody

2. Sit back and smoke some pot

3. Profit!!!!

Welcome my new sarcastic, wise-cracking overlord?

Compared to everything else....take this lovely mafia family over here...or this fair and justly operated drug ring in south america....

All far less corrupt than the fairest of governments.

Actually, what this looks like is a blue laser burner for CD/DVD compatible R/RW discs. FYI, CD's bought in a store are not written with lasers, so discs bought in a store are irrelevant to this discussion. The problem is the inaccuracies of BURNING a CD-R/RW (i.e. you burning it yourself with a drive in your computer).

Therefore this actually is a big deal, because it could mean the ability to burn (at home in your computer) a backward compatible music CD, at higher speeds with less failure rate.

This is even more important for Mastering houses. A mastering house will use a laser burner to write the final master CD. That CD is then sent to a reproduction house, which uses a machine to read the data and cut a permanent bit pattern into a glass disc. Blank Plastic discs are then pressed into the glass to form the pits for the data on disc. this process has an extremely low failure rate (why you rarely get bad discs from the store).

HOWEVER, if the mastering house burns a master with errors in it, and nobody notices (i.e. a bit is halfway burned, and sometimes it plays, some times it doesn't. happened to me 3 days ago), then the cutting reader might mis-read the master. Next thing you know, that error gets replicated into the glass disc, and usually into a few thousand store copies, before it is noticed. Thus ensues a recall and a reprint, at the expense of the musician. Sucko.

Poppy Seed Bagel, maybe? o_O

There, fixed that for you.

I can confirm this as well. My fiance just got a passport (received in the mail two days ago) and it came with neither a sleeve nor any kind of warning that this kind of attack was possible and needed to be guarded against.

Three cheers for the brilliance of modern man. We can make tiny chips that transmit information from several feet away, but we can't figure out how to make "basic security procedures" work.

Nope. The average user has no clue what "DRM" is. They just know that when they put vista on their formerly decent machine, it suddenly runs slow and won't let them do things that used to work just fine.

"a quick port to alternate dimensions"

Strange...Jobs told me that Apple wouldn't have that working until 2013.

Ah, 4 blades is pointless, but the first 2 additional blades made perfect sense to you, did they? nice logic on that one...

Ditto on this...Had really bad experiences with Hitachi and Western Digital. Swore by Maxtor for a while in the early-90's, and then a got several in a row that died within 2 years. Never used a samsung, but I've been sticking with seagate for about 15 years now, and they are incredibly reliable. testament to reliability: with only a little care and maintenance, I have now gone a whopping 12(!!!!) years with out losing a single byte of important data. The only problem for me actually is size...in 12 years without information loss, you really do accumulate a massive amount of data. Even with regularly cleaning out unneeded data and archiving stuff I don't need instant access to, I've managed to fill 2/3rds of my 1TB storage drive already.