From the Opinion:

The parties agreed that Facebook would swallow up Con- nectU, the Winklevosses would get cash and a small piece of Facebook, and both sides would stop fighting and get on with their lives.

Couldn't agree more

I always thought the AI in Unreal Tournament was really good. The difficulty curve is really intense. UT2004 and UT3 both had really intense bots.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the odds of that happening are slim to nil. I don't feel like digging for the source but I remember reading somewhere that trying to brute force combinations into iTunes was worthless because it would be incredibly slow and the amount of possible combinations is so high. Plus there is nothing to stop them from issuing the same number twice once a card has been used in the system and the amount has been credited to an account.

What I mean is that currently the debates are being put off in favor of immediate stimulus. Don't fool yourself into thinking that as soon as the bill passes next week the money will be there and suddenly everything will be glorious. The fact of the matter is that no matter what is included in the bill it will take time to sort out the funding and legal ramifications.

So why not just put it on there and get the ball rolling on it. My point was that if we can get $16 Billion into schools, if we send it in for debate we might only get $12 Billion. We might only get $1 Billion for Broadband. Thats a lot of money to lose out on for something that is a major investment in our Nation.

I would happily pay into the Stimulus if it included such things as this because they are things that I will see and experience. Helping the banks with their credit lines doesn't help me (personally at this point) as much as seeing $16 Billion invested in school projects and other infrastructure. Send people back to work, put money directly into the hands of people and employers who have jobs that need to get done. Then let the people put their money in the banks. Let them pay off their own credit lines and that in turn will helps the banks recover from this mess that they got us into in the first place.

the problem with this that is that a lot (not all) of the things cut could be thousands of jobs created too.

$16 Billion for School Construction? Its gonna take someone to build all those. $2 Billion for broadband? Someone has to be paid to lay the cable. Just putting them off again means they can be widdled down more and debated on further. When was the last time $16 Billion was on the table for school construction? When is the next time we are likely to see that much money offered up for something like this?

Maybe it's just me? But everyone of those issues listed is Tech related. I didn't RTFA but when the summary itself say's:

cybersecurity threats to U.S. government systems, terrorist cells flourishing on the Web, inadvertent file sharing through peer-to-peer networks, and sexual predators ensnaring unsuspecting youth through online social sites. And for a third time, the House passed not just one, but two, different bills aimed at deterring spyware.

Basically how is that not tech related?

And I agree, I sure as hell don't want legislators telling me what technology is right for me.