How often does your unattended 2 year old go to the toy store? It's very easy not to have them in the house, just don't buy them.

Do you know what society is? People relying on other people. That's pretty much the definition.

You sure can, as long as you don't actively encourage illegal posts and agree to take them down once notified about them. Just like every site that has user generated content.

fsck /dev/world?

Yeah, no.. I did something like that once. My family was a fairly early adopter of cable internet when it was The Wave from Rogers in Ontario. Me, being a nosey youngster with some computer knowledge, was poking around in network neighbourhood noticing that a lot more computers showed up than the 0 that I expected. I started looking around saw a folder called "Pictures". Let's just say that I learned a lesson I won't soon forget about sticking my nose where it didn't belong, along with a lesson I wish I could forget about sticking other things where they don't belong.

I don't see "wahhhh rounded corners" in my post. Ad Hominem attacks against people who disagree won't get a discussion anywhere.

Samsung could have done more to differentiate their design from Apples design, true. However I believe that calling Apples design distinctive or stylized is an exaggeration. Every electronic picture frame, TV, tablet, etc. is roughly rectangular and has rounded corners. They are rectangular because that is the screen shape we are used to. They have rounded corners because that is more comfortable to hold than squared corners.

A two stage move would work in this case:
1 - move to an AWS stored instance
1b - move the physical hardware
2 - restore from the AWS to the physical

People should be able to play the games they have paid for. This would also cover them in case something happens to the truck carrying the hardware or something similar. Pay the rent on the AWS server for a bit longer while the new hardware comes in.

As a counter to that, the round-cornered rectangle is neither distinctive not stylized. It's really one of the few logical shapes for a tablet computer. The only other thing they could do is make the corners squared rather than rounded, which would allow exactly two tablet companies, unless you could say they only hold the design patent for black, square-cornered rectangles.

For my work machine, 2 GB is more than sufficient as almost everything I do is online. When Firefox was really acting up I just switched to IE (because of a compatibility issue with Chrome and a site I needed) and the memory problems went away. If it wasn't for the plugins and the way Firefox handled the tabs I was using I would have stayed with IE.

As a tech, I know that, but as a user, I don't care about the difference. When my system slows to a crawl, my hard drive is thrashing and I look at task manager to see firefox.exe sitting at 250MB with two tabs open, there's a problem. I do have a few addons and having too many can cause problems but there comes a point when the host program needs to control the plugins and do something to keep from taking over.

Firefox is still my favourite browser for work and home, but the pauses and hangups when the memory consumption goes up get annoying.

My understanding is, in the context of this conversation, when people say "Corporation", they are referring to the groups that are pooling resources to make money.

I think I agree with you (and the others in this thread) though: Let people join a common cause under whatever banner, but when it comes time to actually approach the law makers each individual is there on their own, not as a member of the group.

I got a second hand desktop with a decent video card for $30. Wiped and reinstalled Windows, installed XBMC and it's good to go. Added a wireless keyboard with built in track pad for $40 and I could control it from anywhere.

Granted, though, I already had a network set up in my house as well as a desktop with significant storage on it, so the solution isn't as great for everyone.

In this case, that measurement isn't resolutions, but closed tickets. Unfortunately you would need a human to go through them and see that the first ticket was closed without fixing the problem, so it wouldn't count as a resolution. I would say it should even count against the tech who did it because it looks like they just tried to pawn off the issue to someone else.

Rather than "realistic" I usually use "internally consistent", meaning that it is realistic within the universe of the movie/book/whatever. If something happens there had better be a story-reason why it's happening (or not happening, as the case may be).

A twitter account is more like broadcasting a message on a TV or radio show, rather than owning a TV or radio station. They would not be directly regulating themselves.