Why would the thief turn it on? The only solution to laptop theft is a stealthy internal battery operated GPS transmitter. Then you can track the thing down yourself, and steal it back.

Agreed. your commodity hardware is gone, along with anything personal you left on it. I wonder what the chances are of the thief actually booting up and browsing porn for a few hours? I doubt anyone steals a laptop without swapping/obliterating the hard drive and re-installing the OS. The better to re-sell it that way. On Craigslist. I've had about $2500 worth of stuff stolen every year for the last few years. That includes electronics, 5 bikes, lawnmowers, tools, my truck.. Once its gone, its gone. If you don't mind paying another type of thief, buy insurance. Sometimes insurance is worth it.

If a service provider's service fails, shouldn't they refund you for that month's service fees?

The Tahoe LS (2WD) gets 15MPG, slightly more when you're cruising at highway speeds (because you're going faster, covering more miles) 1million miles/15 miles per gallon = 66666 Gallons of fuel (rounding off that last 0.7 gallon) 66666 is the postal code of the beast! And that's quit a lot of fuel.

This is just a concept, which the 'inventor' is trying to sell before any prototype exists. This came up about a month ago on BoingBoing or something. It's not a bad idea, but it's just an idea: a 3D printer ----- for kids!

I suppose you think that oversteer means on top of a cow, and understeer means beneath a cow?

I lol'd. Alderan.

The Chinese may one day defeat my ultimate security system for Android: When the app's summary is written in bad Engrish, do not install.

At first I thought you were trolling, but wow. That's a lot of inoculation.

He's just helping out people who don't read. He believes they'll take the time to read his comment after having skipped reading the article and going straight for the "movin' pichures" This BTW, is the coolest demo I've seen all day.

I've been a T-Mobile customer since waaaay back when they were VoiceStream, somewhere around 1998 I think. I've been an ATT customer a few times. The thing that stinks about this merger is that T-Mobile has good support and systems, ATT has awful support and awful systems. This is due to ATT's extremely complex integration and sourcing of their customer service systems. ATT is not very customer friendly, mostly due to the bad and complex integration of their setup, service, support and billing systems. I'm not convinced that the merger needs to happen for either party, especially not for the T-mobile customers.

I'd never read the ToS in the first place. They cant make them short enough for me to care. I could go lap the real Nurburgring with less legal concern than lapping the one in my PS3.

Agreed, Nothing to see here. Why is this even on /.? It behaves like Alice but with less training and zero contextual awareness.

"Lee also stripped Zhao, from China, of her U.S. citizenship and ordered her to forfeit four homes in Maryland and northern Virginia, three condominiums in Chantilly, a Porsche Boxster, a Porsche Cayenne, a Mercedes sedan and seven bank accounts containing more than $1.6 million." Daaayauuum! She was doing pretty damn well if you ask me. Or anyone. Who would really care that they weren't getting 100% genuine Cisco equipment (except for maybe Cisco)?

I don't think Go stuck to the wall they threw it at. Or else there was no wall, and it was thrown into the void. This is standard operating procedure at Google. Throw something at the wall (or a wall) and see if it sticks.