Here in Michigan (and presumably elsewhere as well), there's an alternative calculation for "use tax" that you can enter in that's based on your income.

Since you're only obligated to pay the lesser of the two amounts, if you order a large amount online it's often in your best interest to just go with the calculation and forget about trying to keep track of purchases.

(In most years, I think I've wound up paying $50-60 or so with the default amount.)

So what you're saying is that under current law scanning ceases to be legal as soon as teens start posing suggestively?

http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/12/0450237/Why-Natal-Is-a-Big-Deal

If I were MS, Sony, or Nintendo, I'd be paying close attention to people in the community that start doing interesting things with this and put them on my short-list for recruiting people to develop next-generation hardware.

How are mass-texts counted? If the study is counting texts sent to multiple people as multiple texts (as most US carriers charge for them on non-unlimited plans), the numbers seem a whole lot smaller.

i.e.: Something like "Do you want to come with me to lunch?" sent to 10 friends now becomes 10 messages sent and 5 messages received.

Depending on the size of kids' social circles, 10-15 group texts could easily get them up to the 100-200 message mark.

Of course! (Assuming you could the trilogy plus the "special edition" versions of the trilogy as separate films).

The article seems a little unclear as to whether or not destruction of files really took place.

On the one hand, it says that the files in question could not be recovered from the users' systems since they were overwritten.

On the other hand, it says that they were uploaded to a central server.

So were they "destroyed" or not?

Think of it like this:

System that is never intended to be secure: plastic apple with a warning label stating "THIS IS NOT FOOD"

System that should be secure, but isn't: apple full of worms

You're not going to have a good experience biting into either apple, but there's definitely a difference in the expectations that someone would have when looking at them.

At the heart of things, isn't this just a logical extension of the same debates that are seen surrounding sites like Wikipedia?

i.e.: while it's great that anyone can produce content, having larger amounts of people producing content makes it harder to separate out what's actually relevant, important, or even true?

From reading the article, it looks like IA Labs is actually Powergrid Fitness -- a company that has been releasing gaming-based exercise devices since as early as 2004: http://www.futurelooks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=81382

So definitely not what I would consider to be a "patent troll" given that they've had devices on the market since before any of the control mechanisms for the Wii were even announced.

If you look around, they've been at CES with new or updated devices pretty much every year from 2004 onward.

Sounds painfully similar to my experiences with Nvidia hardware on Windows 7 x64... (hours of attempts at hacking away at .inf files, attempting to override EDID values from the display, and searching out different drivers versions to try).

As soon as I tossed an ATI card with a real HDMI-out port on it, everything just magically worked.

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