Are you seriously complaining that you can't buy something from Walmart when you are shopping at Safeway. To purchase something from Walmart you need to be in Walmart.

Microsoft already has control over a large majority of the cameras on the internet. They could probably get the laptop webcam to turn on without the light beside it turning on and we have yet to hear about them trying anything there.

I'd like to see a rig where they cause multiple computers running one browser each loading the page in the same way versus each of the objects. Or see if lightning could cook a potato before a historic browser finishes rendering.

One thing that does surprise me is that I have yet to get fingerprinted / eye-scanned while travelling from Canada to the US. I am on my second NAFTA work permit for occasional work in the states and in the past 2 years on about 20 trips half personal and half work related I have not once been fingerprinted or eye scanned. Sometimes I wonder if it is because of the work permit, but when travelling with my family for personal business they don't get scanned either.

I guess that should teach me to read before I link. That one will play Blu-Ray ISOs with it's firmware update. I haven't tried the iso yet but it has played every other file type I've thrown it's way.

If thats the case they must not have heard of devices like the Patriot Box Office which will stream a Blu-Ray iso from your computer. Devices like this are definitely cheaper than whatever they will be charging for the new burners when they come out.

I'm hoping for Balmer I want to goad him into throwing a chair at me.

The last time I even bothered looking into it, which was probably 5 years ago, they were selling music and data CDs as separate products and the levy only applied to music CDs and not data CDs.

I thought this was a rather insightful post and hit Redundant instead of Insightful.

That will work fine until a butterfly happens to set the evil bit on the hard drive flipping the chaos from good to evil. http://xkcd.com/378/

A friend and I were out at Ikea buying some furniture and as we it onto the cart he drops it on his foot and says "Fuck!" Some lady we hadn't seen up to that point says "Excuse me, there are children here." My friend turns around and as politely as possible and says, "The world isn't censored"

My point being that more people need to realize that the world isn't censored, it will never be possible to censor the world and if you want your kids to not swear you need to teach them it is something you don't like so that they learn to hide the fact that they swear like a trucker when you aren't around.

I'm pretty sure that is impossible to build effective age restrictions into the internet. The one article mentions that some of the worlds set it up so that if you enter a birthday that says you are too young they block you from creating an account with a different birthday from the same computer. This only hurts households with multiple users and only needs to happen on one world for the kids to learn that they need to enter that they are over the legal age the first time.

Sounds like the URLs people use to try and get the "free" iPods and stuff. I expect to see this all over forums soon.

They had access to the demo of the radar that lets people see through walls and use that to see if anyone was posting before them.

If the only way across state lines was to drive 200 mph then a speed limit of 60 mph would be denying your right to travel anywhere in the states (if driving were the only form of travel) and as such that speed limit would be illegal.