The funny part is that they think a terrorist would actually request access to take photographs of an oil facility.

I tend to disagree. Police and Federal Enforcement should be investigating crime as vigorously as possible within their legal limitations. That's their job. The judicial system on the other hand, is supposed to be the checks and balances to the enforcers. The problem appears to be that the enforcement agencies are keeping up with technology, and using it to their advantage, but the judicial system is not keeping up with the times. As a result they are not placing the necessary checks on the enforcers.

Run your users through a "Captive Gateway" to authenticate them an agree to your Acceptable Terms of Use. Here is a guide I found for some open source solutions using a quick google search:

First Point: ICE raided the house not the police.

Second Point: ICE needs to have a federally issued warrant in order to raid a house.

Honestly it is the Judges that need the wake-up call. Too many just don't understand the intricacies of technology and internet crime. A Judge would have been shown how ICE had tracked the IP back to a specific person, and he should have known that that IP address doesn't necessarily identify that person as the perpetrator, and denied the warrant. Furthermore, he should realize that by authorizing a raid like that he reduced the chance of actually catching the real criminal. If the neighbor wasn't such a bone-head, he would have realized what was going on, and fled after he saw the raid on his neighbor's apartment. Instead he probably though he had successfully pinned the blame on someone else.

Actually, consider how magic tricks are pulled off. Through distraction. If you intentionally draw attention to something, you can oftentimes slip something else by unnoticed. Not, that I think this is the reasoning the TSA used.

As a bonus, purchasers of the Playstation 3 version of Portal 2 will get a code to unlock the PC and Mac version, too.

Most important thing I found in the article. I'm wondering if it will work the other way around too. I would love if I could eventually play all my steam games on both the PS3 and PC if they are available for both!

Hate to say it, but many companies and government agencies will force their users to use IE.Plus, IE is still leading in browser market share. Although the market share does vary based on the type of content you provide, it would be irresponsible to just say "IE users can just suck it." At least if you are trying to make your website available to the broadest available audience.

Personally, I feel like the Kinect on the whole is pretty gimmicky. Not to say that its a bad piece of hardware as there are some truly incredible Kinect hacks out there. But it just doesn't make sense as a controller, for games or otherwise. Gaming and computing in general require a fairly high degree of accuracy with your controllers. On the PC, FPS players will pay quite a bit of money to get a more accurate mouse, and MMO players are always looking for easier access to as many buttons as possible. Kinect went the opposite direction, less accuracy and gestures. Sure its cool as a novelty, but eventually the games all start to feel the same, and for everything else its just slow and clunky.

At this point you are going into the territory of who exactly owns your device.

You didn't agree to view the ads when you purchased it, you just agreed to purchase a product that had advertisements on it. Personally I think its fair for you to modify something you own. The same way I think its fair for someone to hack their PS3 to enable OtherOS. Once you buy it you own it, and are free to modify your property. On the flip side I also believe it's fair for the service provider to deny access to their services (e.g. Sony denying hacked PS3's from connecting to their network).

How in the world did you come up with an additional $200 per user per ad-driven kindle?

I'm using Facebook as a metric, since their advertising bidding process is readily accessible. Now for this type of advertising I would assume more of a Cost Per Metric than a Cost Per Click bid. On Facebook, their Cost Per Metric bids for around $0.44-0.77 USD per 1000 Impressions. Its a bit harder to measure impressions with a Kindle, because it is not always connected to the network, and its an item that you are going to have over a long period of time. That being said let's assume that you read your Kindle 5 times a day, and each time you read it you get 2 impressions: the impression on the home screen and the impression on screensaver. That would be 10 impressions per day or 3650 impressions per year if you were an avid reader. In which case the revenue from your impressions for Amazon would be less than $3. At this rate it would take more than 8 years for amazon to make up for your $25 discount. Now I'm not trying to say that these are the actual advertising rates for the Kindle, just trying to point out that $200 seems a bit unrealistic.

Amazon Link

The ads are actually pretty unobtrusive. You can see them at the link above, about half way down the page.
They do have the ads on the hibernation screen (which are most likely 'un-clickable'), as well as ads on your homepage (which are probably clickable). I agree that $25 does seem a bit slim for the discount, but still worth it, after all how long will it be until a few clever people will probably figure out how to re-write the memory so that you have the full version.

I'm assuming you are in the United Kingdom? It seems to still be ok in the U.S. I bought a few Dungeness Crabs wrapped in Newspaper in Seattle last week.

So far the only people here saying that this has anything to do with 'The Mark of the Beast' are people that are mocking Christians. Is this irony or just bigotry?

Oh, and as an aside, the Control Units are linux based :)

I don't have any experience with the 710 Warrior, but I have used the 510 packbot, and it’s quite neat. It is easy for just about anyone to control, and with a little bit of practice you can do some pretty cool maneuvers. The claw and arm are fairly strong (5-15lbs depending on how far the arm is extended), but they are designed more for probing than doing any heavy lifting. My biggest concern is that we always used these robots in pretty close proximity to the operator. They were made for handling hazardous materials and unexploded ordinance, so the operator was close but in a protected area. Radiation is a whole different beast. The 510 I used couldn't go too far beyond a hundred meters before you begin to lose control and video feed.