Can't they just select another state to incorporate? Many choose Delaware for its better financial records privacy though they really do no business in the state.

I voted from Scroll Lock myself, mostly because I don't even know what an F-Lock is (Flint Lock?).

I was going to pick Pause/Break, but I remember it was useful when I did programming many moons ago when I would create an infinite loop. It could prevent my system from being brought to its knees.

As a Missing Option how about the "SysRq" part of the Print Screen button... What the heck does that do?

Also ever F# key that doesn't correspond to halting BIOS etc... I think I have used like 3 or 4 of those in my life. Sure when we lived in a world with out mice or windows it was handy, but times have changed man!

I remember old school games used to use every button, and it was all hard coded. Flight Simulator, Mech Warrior, etc... But now everything is in menus, hot bars, and it call all be remapped however the hell you like it now anyway.

Maybe a new standard is needed.

I really think this wouldn't be acceptable.
It's like saying that a filesharing application in Linux could just tell the user that it will share parts of /dev/hda.

I'm pretty sure they'd just rule this as a technical workaround and it wouldn't stand in court.

Mirror: http://herschel.esac.esa.int.nyud.net/FirstParallelModeImages.shtml

Wasn't there that story a while back about some government docs getting shared out on some P2P network? Want to bet that the guilty party(s) just shared out their whole drive not knowing what it would do.

Wait for it, my story gets better, when confronted they must have swore up and down that they didn't share anything on their PC and that the *evil* P2P software must have a mind of it's own. (Pay attention during the install? Check the configs? Read the documentation? HA!)

Now, we have this being pushed into an act because it's apparently the latest "hot topic" to protect people from paying attention to what they are actually doing on the computer. Especially while they are at work.

Insert. The only thing I've ever done with Insert is disable it.

Well, it depends on where it was.

If it was in the user's personal start menu, you could just log in as administrator and delete it from the %userprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder in the user's settings. (Key would be to log in as someone else – and the someone else would have to have administrator rights on that computer.)

If it was in the All Users start menu, logging in as administrator wouldn't work either. In that case, I think booting into safe mode would prevent it from running, and if not, you could always boot to command prompt. Then delete the shortcut from the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder.

No, people used to not get this stuff at all. How many free downloads did you get for your SNES?

Very good idea, that should be assumed.

One idea may to be divide the file into archive segments, all with a CRC. Then you know which file parts on damaged DVD "A" are recoverable, and which are on damaged DVD "B". Then combine those, plus recovery info, and there is a high chance of recovering the complete package.

I like multiple backup levels, such as keeping them on a RAID device, tapes, archival DVDs, and in the cloud. This way, should some means of backup fail (cloud provider declares bankruptcy), you have at least 2-3 others.

I can reach similarly lengthy runtimes on my iPhone as well, but it all goes to shit as soon as Wifi is enabled...

I really hope that research in reducing power consumption on 3G and Wifi networks is hot right now. Being able to do this would be a HUGE plus.

One big flaw with that plan though. If you sell a piece of digital art to a museum for some large sum and then tell them that you also plan to upload a high-resolution copy to a file-sharing site, they may object. Possibly strongly.

Why should we want to do that ? I know we can. But why playing poker with a guitar ? Perhaps I am getting old...

http://www.laserdazzler.net/standard_laser_dazzler.htm

This device seems to be flashing rapidly; it's essentially a laser pointer with a lens to make a spot just large enough to focus on a subject's eye area. Of course it's backed up by the proven reliability and effectiveness of an H&K MP5, it appears from the video.

Usually.

I have a rooted G1 and use Cyanogenmod: it provides several enhancements, such as root, which allows for Wifi/bluetooth based tethering. It is also somewhat more responsive and quicker than the official firmware. It does have less battery life, and can be less stable then the official version however. While it is true that Android is open source, Android without many of the base apps such as Gmail/Google maps is not particularly useful. Still though, this won't prevent me, and other users from using this mod. And since I paid for the phone, and by extension, the applications that came with the phone, I should be able to transfer them to a new operating system on the same phone.