Not like anyone's going to read this far down, but it feels like the comments on a story about 'Giving $1000 to lower income people during the holidays' can be summed up best by, 'God-damn liberals trying to make me look like an asshole by doing a nice thing!'

Sometimes there's a man, I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man and he's the man for his time and place.

And in 6 months they'll say that wasn't profitable and throttle it. Then a year later they'll come out with their 'Really, Really, Really Unlimited' plan, which will last another 6 months before it to is throttled because it isn't profitable. Its as if this were all just some ploy to trick people into signing up for needlessly expensive data plans.

I'll wait for the inevitable Slashdot post 6 months from now, 'Verizon now throttling data for customer's who paid an extra $10'.

But wouldn't you only need to simulate it if it was under direct observation? Otherwise there would be no need to divert system resources to provide that level of simulation. I suppose if it were a difficult problem to simulate one could set up several million closely watched observation points and then monitor to see if any system lag might be noticed within the simulation, but on its own this seems unlikely to have proven anything.

Feminists have been called Nazi's for at least 4 decades now, I've yet to see them decide to start running over people with cars, threaten jews and other minorities.

If you don't want to be called a Nazi, perhaps don't act like a fascist, and don't defend those who do by providing shade for them to hide in.

So Trump's supporters think this is keeping his promise? Most of these factories will be heavily automated. The 'manufacturing' jobs are not going to go to struggling Joe-Blow the former coal miner, or laid off steel worker. They are highly technical jobs requiring education and training none of these guys possess. More often than not this will likely go to even more H1B visa holders, rather than the folks who are holding Trump up like some kind of champion to the common working man. Maybe we get a few more jobs cleaning toilets, but since those tend to get contracted out to service companies with somewhat shady hiring practices I'm still not seeing a net gain.

At the end of the day they're still struggling, but I guess Trump gets to check off that box.

In the Ft Benning Infantry Museum there is the head off a statue of Hitler. The top of the head has been welded to a metal plate, and the entire thing turned upside down and used as a wastepaper basket. Yet I hear no cries from the German people demanding we return this priceless artifact of WWII, or even compensation for the metal it was made out of. This kind of thing has been happening for centuries, its almost universally accepted when a dictator gets over thrown you mash up his statues and do your best to forget about the bastard. I'm sure if the Iraqi people actually cared that the US had walked off with a couple of hundred bucks in bronze we'd find some way to compensate them, but I'd be amazed if the majority of them actually wanted the damn statue back. Unless you're being sarcastic, there are far better examples of the US ignoring international law than taking a few war trophies. As I said, these things happen all the time going back thousands of years, and often with far more expensive items. The Ft. Stewart 3ID Museum has a full set of gold plated AK-47's from Sadaam and other assorted weapons for example, not to mention several captured Iraqi vehicles. Finally, I may be mistaken, but I know of no law that prevents people from specifically defacing art. There are laws against damaging public property and perhaps that is what you are refering to, however, I don't think those really apply to what happens in a war zone. I think folks have a bit more to worry about than minding the flowers at the local park, or not crushing that lovely fountain over there. There are no world wide art damage treaties that I am aware of, for after all, what is art? ;)

This kind of litigation is actually pretty common. Look at the older somewhat similar case of Harmony Gold VS FASA. The wiki article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech#Miscellaneous) doesn't have a great amount of detail but in essence FASA purchased a bunch of Mecha designs for their game Battletech from a japanese artist. These same designs were also used in Macross, the artist believing since Macross was a Japanese Anime and FASA was an American company neither side would really bump into each other. For the most part he was right until Harmony Gold came along and purchased the rights to Macross and put it into the American market as Robotech. Several years later and two cartoon series later (Battletech and some crazy ass Robotech tie in with Exo Squad), and both Harmony Gold and FASA are at each others throats each one holding what they believe to be valid exlusive rights to the designs for about 12 different mecha. The legal rangling got pretty bad between both sides. Long story short the case was eventually settled out of court due to gross legal incompetance on Harmony Gold's part, and a lack of funds on FASA, but legal battles over who owns the rights over images like this can get pretty brutal. Just because you THINK you own the rights to something doesn't mean you in fact do.

This is the perfect scenario for the Record Labels. Not only do they make money by not doing anything, they don't have to pay out a dime to any of the artists whose songs are being downloaded since no one is actually 'licensing' these songs. Its an instant money tree with absolutely no cost for Warner. They'll never have to pay their artists a dime, just soak up all the money from Choruss.

Not to mention all the lock out features in the world don't really matter if the kid just goes out and buys a second hard drive and swaps it out with the old one. Not to expensive, and pretty likely when dealing with high schoolers. Better to just filter while at school, and reimage the machines when they mess than up with a $60 'time waster' penalty or something. Besides some creative kid will figure out how to do it and charge $20 and make some money ;).

Wow, honestly this is probably the most intelligent and reasonable thing said in here. I couldn't agree with you more. I personally favor unions, and I think this country is about to enter another part of its history were it relearns why they are important. Sure unions have their problems (a huge laundry list actually), but an organized work place is still important. Eventually push will come to shove, and having someone to stand up for you rather than a bunch of 'Hey did you hear how Bob got screwed''s standing around the water cooler, is worth the hassle. As long as the majority of the tech industry continues to believe that its incapable of happening to them because they're better than the next slob, or 'only an incompetant needs a union', they're in for a rude awakening.

But hey maybe tech jobs will always stay an elite few, and they'll never have to worry about it. Its possible but I doubt it.

No, they're terrorists because we picked them up planting IEDs, attempting to blow up our buddies with a cell phone rigged to a couple of artillary shells buried in the road(totally uncaring about any true civilian casualties they may inflict), hiding in the back of a mini-van sniping at US/Coalition/Iraqi troops or sometimes just ordinary civilians out buying groceries.

You want to sit there and say we're all brain washed idiots who believe what ever the media, or 'the man' tell us, but you're guilty of the same exact BS. Counter-culture media tells you that every person in US custody is an innocent civilian, who's just persecuted unjustly by the big bad US military.

Are their people in US military custody who are completly innocent? Victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Of course there are. Should we make sure that everyone receives fair treatment? Definatly, but don't sit there and think for a second that the majority of people held in US custody are innocents, or even that the majority of their attacks are carried out on US targets. Many times these people have attacked innocent civilians, oftentimes getting paid for each death they inflict, simply to cause chaos.

You don't like the term terrorist but what else should we call them? They aren't soldiers. Soldiers don't go around attacking the people they're supposed to be fighting to protect. They certainly aren't 'patriots' or 'freedom fighters'. Patriots don't blow up their countrymen for a couple of bucks. Freedom fighters don't blow up a Mosque with innocent people worshiping in it, or plant a bomb in a crowded market place whose primary target is women and children.

So please before you start preaching that the kettle is black, make sure you aren't a pot, and try to have some respect for the folks who put their lives out their everyday in this war.