or the ISP's can copy what Google did in German, block all copyright material then watch the perpetrators of the legal action have a nervous break down when they realise they have just blown their own foot of with a 22mm canon. Media needs exposure to survive, even illegal downloaders assist in sales (most downloaders are also their biggest $$ customers). So when the media reps lose a major exposure channel trust me they start to hurt especially when they realise their advertising budget is now 5x higher to get the same income.

If there was any truth in advertising Facebooks new data centre would be shaped like a huge vacuum cleaner.

you do realise drug companies can write of the research and testing period expenditure in many western countries, in many cases the write off exceeds 100% of the investment.

accept only 5% of all that money is related to research, the rest is marketing and lawyers and over paid management. Most of the money for drug research comes from the public purse and the average US citizen is getting royally screwed by the drug companies for drug research they paid for already.

For people with Prosopagnosia (the inability to identify faces) this bit of technology will be a boon.

So the multi nationals want to turn all consumers into rent slaves, you own nothing you merely rent it from them never knowing when your masters decide the change the rules and take what you rent away.

Today it was reported that the EU commission has submitted for review a new tax on Oxygen used while watching media. The director EU of silly taxes responded to criticism of the new tax "after years of research costing millions of Euro's we can confirm that 100% of pirates consume Oxygen while watching stolen movies or playing games so we have decided to tax Oxygen". Some questions have been raised by fellow EU members about the waiver of the tax for all EU officials especially considering how much Oxygen they wast on a daily basis.

yeah, one of my fellow male work associates loves apple, he met his new boyfriend at an apple store.

There is a fine line between being smart and a douche.

I can understand the logic of adding extra information to a transmission so the end point receiver can extrapolate the complete packet due to data loss. My question is what if there is no or very little data loss won't the extra overhead work against you ?

Actually Henry Ford didn't invent the first modern automobile assembly line Ransom Old's (Olds Motor Vehicle Company) did in 1901 and he even patented it. Were Ford was different was more a matter of scale to reduce the cost of manufacturing.

Samsung should do an advert now while the iron is hot. Showing hipsters stumbling around banging into buildings and going to the wrong place. "our phones wont leave you lost".

There is a reason we must die, social stagnation, for humanity to grow and accept new technologies and concepts the old must die and make way for the new. Imagine a large part of the US population being over 200 years old and blocking new technologies at the voting booth.

just visit liveleak, they pretty much have everything from fluffy kittens falling over to al-qaeda thugs throwing blind folded fuel covered villagers into a pit then throwing in a match.