The Biden flag is always present at those rallys -- It's the one with 50 stars on a blue field and 13 red and white stripes.

Standard Microsoft strategy. When they are not dominating a market sector, they Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. Last week it was Ubuntu runs on Windows; this week it's "we can run on your iphone." But, one has to wonder if this works for them anymore, given the quality of the competition and the continuing decline in the quality of their products.

please tell us why you tolerate this corrupt behavior by your legislators? $45 million isn't pocket change. Are you really going to ignore this the next time your representatives run for re-election?

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture-- i.e. our tax dollars. So why do I have to pay EvilElsevier to read the paper I paid for?

it has been revealed that the method used will only work on a narrow slice of other phones for which the terrorists write the pass code on a slip of paper they hide at the bottom of their underwear drawer.

Is he also concerned with widespread ownership of assault weapons? Is he doing anything about those who lose their lives in car accidents, drown in their bath tub, or for that matter are killed by FBI agents who improperly assess the situation. "If the public does nothing, (stuff) like that will continue to roll out," "It has public safety costs. Folks have to understand that, and figure out how they are going to deal with that. Do they want the public to bear those costs? Do they want the victims (of these circumstances) to bear those costs?" Mr. FBI should focus on serious threats, and encryption is not one of them.

Michael Powell, former FCC Chair and now head of the Cable & Telecommunications Association, writes in a letter to the NY Times today that "Big Tech" doesn't need help from Big Government -- it can negotiate for rights like everyone else. Let me know when your cable company lets you hook up a 3rd party cable box you bought on ebay for $35.

Amadou Dialo put his hand in his pocket to retrieve his pager and was shot 41 times. A phone these days, is not much larger than an pager was in 1999, and attempting to anticipate a police officer's request for a license could very well make you dead.

So no public debate based on no disclosure is better than ill-informed debate based on full disclosure? He might as well have said that as a form of government, dictatorship is superior to democracy.

Not only does it fail to account for loss or distortion, but also fails to consider the time to decompress. If a compression algorithm with a high Weissman score is applied to a video, it is useless if it cannot be decompressed fast enough to show the video at an appropriate frame rate.

Can these guys really imagine this deal will be approved by the FCC and Justice Departments? This merger is so destructive of the public interest, it could spend a decade in court in some subsequent administration, even if the present administration allows it.

The advocates of wind energy make no claim that the wind generators will run 24/7. Nevertheless, calculating payback as if they do provides a convenient comparison to other power sources. In practice, a combination of wind, solar and natural gas can economically provide power and greatly reduce the generation of greenhouse gasses and should cost less as usage of the technology grows. In fact, similar technology works for hybrid cars and for Florida Power & Light's hybrid gas / solar electric plant (http://www.fpl.com/environment/solar/projects.shtml). Obviously this is still an experimental arrangement, but it works for cars, so why not commercial electric power?

yet most of us would be hard pressed to remember a case in which it was successfully asserted. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_%28equity%29) Are we to believe that it took Spherix five years to check whether the world's largest manufacturer of network products was violating their patents? Assuming that Cisco is in fact infringing those Nortel patents, justice in this case would be served if they got an award based no more than six months worth of Cisco's sales of the products cited by Spherix.

Is my Kaspersky Antivirus going to find and remove their viruses? Or even better, perhaps some enterprising hacker will write a tool that that sends its own malware back through the NSA bot net and trashes their servers. When I was a youngster "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us" was amusing. Now it it taken as a guiding principle by our intelligence services. It's sad.

Just read a newspaper sometime... we are not suffering from "surveillance fatigue." The correct term would be "Outrage Fatigue."