If that happens, the guy on the other side created a universe, of which something as insanely complicated as a human is one trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent. The guy built the moon and is way better at physics than Steven Hawking, so it's not like you're dealing with a guy that lacks either brains or brawn. Plus if the lake of fire is actually on the moon, you're pretty much fucked on that escape part. So best of luck, assuming you weren't the rare total douche who deserves a lake of fire, but I don't like your chances.

They presumably won't overcharge for them anymore once they're mandatory.

"What, you don't want to pay an extra $500 to save babies? Sorry, can't help ya with a new car. I do have some fine used cars over here, though. Only $475 more expensive than they were last year. Convenience fee. Don't have to worry about those annoying backup cameras."

If networks enforced quality standards on ads and didn't repeat them each 6 times an hour, people would stop turning the channel for commercials. You could even rent out writers and production staff to make sure the final product is going to meet your standards (cheaply. You're making money on the ad, not the production. Just cover your costs). Whichever of the big 3 networks that figures that out first is going to make a trillion dollars while DVRs drive the rest out of business.

Three times as many as before.

I always assumed the point was to split people who, being progressive for progressiveness's sake, would vote for any serious black candidate or any serious female candidate (I've decided to call them "flying car progressives". They don't really care about policies, they just want to live in the future, where an openly gay Chinese candidate giving a speech from the moon doesn't raise any eyebrows). But Republicans apparently didn't anticipate the power of Tina Fey's glasses being similar to their candidate. Not that they could have overcome the Obama's ability to shoot rainbows from his nipples anyway.

We can discount anyone that tried it while paired with a president-for-life, nationalizing foreign businesses, doing your best to destroy anyone with an IQ over 95, and getting embargoes sprayed all over yourself. Those things tend to muck up your economy independent of your tax structure.

GDI+ is good enough for low frame rates and trivial to use if you have any C# experience. If these are static controls that need to be painted and then updated on user input, it's more than sufficient.

Good advice for capable people. For the 90% that are barely sentient drones that thank God when nobody notices that they just shit out some code that sort of works if you don't poke at it, those processes are critical. They take people that should be dunking french fries in oil and bring them to the "good enough for a Chevy" programming level required for customers that made you agree to do the work at 30% of what it should actually cost to do it right.

Sales were down 67%. How much further down would they be if everyone knew for a fact that there would be no consequences to taking all the music they want for free? I would guess it's a much bigger number. The lawsuits make getting the free stuff a gamble. They're a cost of doing business, not a profit center.

The reasoning for the money-from-nothing argument is this:

Bank opens. Alice deposits $1000. Bank loans Bob $250 of Alice's money. Alice still has $1000, Bob now has $250. As long as Alice never withdraws more than $750, the $250 the bank just created on paper still exists. When she tries to withdraw $751, the universe explodes. Luckily it's not just Alice, it's 10,000 Alices, and it's unlikely that they will all withdraw $751 at the same time, so the universe is safe. Sort of.

Security's not my area, so maybe this question is nonsense, but why does each wireless router not have its own unique public/private key pair installed at the factory (that could later be changed by the owner) so that the session key could be generated by the client, sent to the server encrypted by the public key, and now only the router can decrypt the session key?

I think its repugnant that a customer needs to make a public sqwak in order to get good service

If you call my company and say you're not happy with our work, we come back out and make it right. If you never call us we never find out anything was wrong and you just bitch to your friends, we can't do that. If we can find out you're upset we can call you and say, "Hey, we heard you're not thrilled. We're sorry about that. Let us come fix it." It would be great if we were a big enough company for it to be worth the cost.

I don't understand why worrying is what this makes people do. There's nothing stopping someone from writing an app that appears useful, waits until June 2nd, 2011, then does the most malicious thing the phone's sandbox will allow it to do. At that point, if the phone becomes unusable for 20,000 people, or if it becomes a plague spreader, or if it starts making calls to Pakistani phone sex lines while you're asleep, but on the outside it still appears to be a friendly purple gorilla so people don't delete it themselves, someone has the power to kill it. Good.

Yes, priority should be on making sure the app can't do anything you don't want it to do, and I'm sure that effort is being made, but things will be missed.

They can stop you from running things they don't like, sure, but it's not like this is a purely evil tool. If I were designing it, I'd put it in, too.

Looking at a couple of summaries, it looks like there would be both constitutional issues and an enormous financial burden to meet the 3% of requirements that we don't already meet. There seems to be no real benefit to anyone (except possibly 17-year-olds who want to boil their parents in acid and spend life in prison instead of dying pretty quickly) and extra cost. Which means, at best, back burner it for a while.

Again, based on the summaries I just read. Maybe they didn't mention the important changes.

He's adjusting his glasses. He's holding the bar on the left that connects the lookamajigs to the ear-holder-onners.

However the glasses appear to be Mary Kate and Ashley brand, so he's still from the future.