And as a Florida resident I respect Crist immensely for having the courage to veto that bill.

But seriously, legalizing pot might actually have a better effect on the country than implementing teacher pay based on student test scores like Zuckerburg's trying to do with his Newark donation. Test scores have much, much more to do with with the quality of home life than the quality of teaching.

As an independent software contractor, I can assure you that software is not "work for hire". Look it up.

This is the real difference between genuine R&D (actual breakthrough in computer science) and Cupertino R&D (Let's remove the floppy drive! Let's remove the optical drive! Let's remove the keyboard! I can't believe we're acutally being paid for this!)

Seriously, how does this happen in a country that is not a dictatorship? Incredibly odd.

I think the reason it worked is because after 6th grade, students aren't getting their first experience in math from Elementary Education majors.

As ridiculous as this is, at least they're fabricating crap in order to keep out a search engine, instead of fabricating crap in order to start a war.

People in power do whatever they want. It usually works. On the rare occasion it doesn't, it makes the history books.

Just means it's time to break out the megabit keys!

That's not any smarter.

Oh, come on. You're willing to tell 12% of your potential customer to screw off? Just because they're not tech-savvy doesn't mean they don't have money.

I like coding well enough, but don't foresee myself still coding in 25 years. I think that's a pretty common feeling among young programmers.

I mean, seriously, $8.99/month + $100 deductible? That means, after one year, you've paid about $200 for that "free" replacement. Which is REFURBISHED, by the way!

What do they expect?

The insurance companies need to stop their bitching.

Hopefully, this show will get it right, and have a little bit of depth to it.

You're right. Actual damages would be more like $0.30 per song, which is about what labels make from a "legal" download.

Goliaths know that whoever has deeper pockets to pay legal expenses for a longer period of time, generally wins lawsuits. Frivolous lawsuits filed by large companies on individuals and small entities are more often than not seen as a war of attrition that they have no way of losing. As someone was once the victim of this, it makes me incredibly angry. I was frivolously sued by a large company. Even though I won the case (basically by showing up and showing the contract vis a vis their allegations), I had to spend a few thousand dollars defending myself (I'm lucky it wasn't tens or hundreds of thousands). They're trying to ruin this individual, and make an example out of him. It's one of the most evil aspects of corporations and is what's most wrong IMO about our legal system.