I for one would like to welcome our new cyborg intestine ovelords.

Too funny. No, I was lazy and stopped at the first link. There were a ton of players though at less than $50. The point is that the hardware is not the barrier to entry for blue ray it once was.

How about a Sony Bravia for $18 on e-bay?

While I generally agree with you here, can we please finally stop perpertuating this problem from 10 years ago? My windows box runs just fine for weeks on end with no problems.

A 5 year cycle for safety of flight issues and major weapons system is not uncommon. Handheld stuff like this is off the shelf tech (albeit old for this example). You'll find DoD folks using brand new Blackberries today as an example fo the other way.

That's how it works for library e-book lending today. If the one 'copy" is checked out, you can get on a hold list just like a paper copy.

It's coming to a lot of libraries, and in fact many have this service. The problem is that they must buy another copy of the book to make it available electronically. In a time of tight budgets, this means that it can come down to either having 2 copies of the same book or 2 different ones on the shelf. I've found in trying to get books for my 8-year old to read on her Nook, the children’s selection electronically is pretty much nil.

That's OK. Since the real intent of this is to track everything you do and not "protect the children", they'' just go ahead and log everything you do for potential "bad stuff".

As what, the romantic couple's grandparents? These two ain't getting any younger.

DISA is supposed to be a support organization while USCYBER is the Joint command and control organization. DISA was actaully supposed to go away and have the good parts sucked into USCYBER. That got canned however.

I'm not sure if this was a request to mod up or rate's it's own +1, funny for the Google Circles reference on a Facebook article.

Well, the shuttle SRBs use the same solid fuel concept developed for ICBM use, so there is an indirect lineage there as well.

I'll second that. I stream Netflix to Germany for $50 a year and a cheap router to do the PPTP.

This is the new Slashdot. the categories have no meaning. The new categories might as well be +1 "I agree" or -1 "I hate you".

Yes, it's my $260 10" Viewsonic G-Tablet. Sure it's wifi only, but I have instant portable entertainment for 3 children with only the sunk cost. Even my 3 year old has figured out how to bounce back and forhte between the Angry Birds versions to get the one she wants. And I'm not shelling out $40 bucks a game either for a DS cartridge.