We (the United States) already have one, it's called the ATF. I'm not sure about our Mexican cousins, however.

On a sidenote, Wikipedia states that the US consumed about 300 tonnes of cocaine in 2010. This bust accounts for 2 days worth of cocain consumption in the US this year.

That was one of the goals with meego

I disagree. My suspicion is that most people would rather put up with the slightly slower service and the customers who feel that this will impact their experience will add another disc to their plan. Chances are it's a minority of Netflix customers who watch more than one or two discs per week. The one-per-week customers will not have a real impact to their experience.

When PMP's have up to 64GB of storage, the issue is more about convenience than quality. I'd rather be able to drag&drop my flac files than have to convert from flac to another codec or maintain two libraries of music.

There are plenty of ways to track people that are on the server side instead of the client side, so noscript can't prevent everything

The more likely theory is that computers continue to live longer and have reached the point of "good enough" that end users do not feel compelled to replace a working, 6 year old computer.

I'll grant you the notion that the pretense for this software is immaterial, largely because the lessee does not have any way of knowing when the software is being used (e.g. if the defendent has an employee who is using said software maliciously.) However, your first point is invalid for the following reasoning:

Cameras can take pictures of the person using the computer. Those pictures can be provided to law enforcement, who should be able to compare said pictures to photographs in their records (e.g. DMV, prison systems, government employee databases, etc.)

What happened to mailing lists?

Automated cars will give me 2 more hours a day to do productive things (1 hour each way on what feels like the straightest road in the world.) Ultimately, I would love it if these 2 hours mean I finish my work earlier and can enjoy more of my life with friends & family.

Largely because you may not have enough cash to wait it out. Many fund managers were shorting companies like Pets.com back during '98-00, but had to take substantial losses because they didn't have enough collateral to wait until the share prices reversed and headed toward $0.

Nokia has been working on this since at least 2009, just search for their Kamppi trial. I know that it's fashionable to knock Nokia on many things, but they do (or is it did?) work on some very fore-front things.

Somebody else created a similar application for his Nokia phones:
http://www.techalps.com/nokia/any-minnesota-readers-please-give-this-mall-of-america-app-a-try.html

It's San Francisco - you can still purchase leashes and collars for your significant other without considering it "contraband"

Nowhere in the article you provided did I see that tone. Instead, the tone was simply stating that certain types of jobs are now obsolete (or their demand has dramatically reduced) due to technology. Similar to the decline of buggy and whip makers.

Obama:

When somebody has Alzheimer's disease, their brain essentially rots. The brain shrinks & shrivels and 'holes' develop; it shrinks enough and these 'holes' grow enough that they affect the core areas in the brain responsible for keeping the person alive.

Feel free to read http://www.ahaf.org/alzheimers/about/understanding/brain-nerve-cells.html for more details

While the technical 'cause of death' isn't Alzheimer's, per se, Alzheimer's kills. To say that it doesn't is tantamount to saying that Parkinson's doesn't kill.

Quick question: where are the lines drawn between NASA's and NOAA's responsibilities?