So, Microsoft is going to help the monitor manufacturers by forcing everyone to have touchscreens (yeah, right). On giant step for Microsoft, on giant step back for users.

Guess I'll be using my MacBook more and converting my desktop to Linux.

I hear what you are saying. Around the area I live the cable company penalizes you for not having all of their services. I have a dish and am very happy with it compared to the lousy and very expensive services that the only cable company here offers. If I wanted to upgrade my DSL to cable they would charge me $30 more than if I was a cable subscriber, thus taking my bill to x4 of what I am currently paying, for 6Mb -- an increase of 5Mb. The problem: the local cable company has a strangle hold on the area, no other company can get in to give it competition.

So, you want everyone to have substandard care? I am speaking as one that has seen family and friends going into the VA system and them not getting the treatment the need or deserve.

Our VA system has needed improvement for a long time -- they are severely over burdened and under funded.

A local collage here, Seton Hill, has gone completely electronic. Everyone "gets" a Mac and an iPad (http://www.setonhill.edu/techadvantage/index.cfm). The campus has changed from students walking and talking to each other to a bunch of blind mice scurrying around campus.

Yeah! We just told the enemy when we are going to surrender.

Before you start about this being "flame bait"... Why on earth would you announce "we are ending this war on [blah]". All this is going to do is let the enemy know when they can go back to business as usual and punish those that stood against them.

When is a war over? When one side surrenders. Last time I looked the enemy has not surrendered; therefore, we are surrendering -- they won. The troops that we have sent have died in vain, and for what??? Politics.

"Elections are coming around and my party is going to lose big unless I pull a rabbit out of my hat!" How many lives are worth a seat on the Senate?

I can only imagine if 9/11 (you remember, when they declared war on us) occurred with this man was in office.

All data can be manipulated to support any point of view, especially to support the POV of the financial backer. Bogus data is the best source of data, after all 98% of all torrent related "data" is inaccurate at best.

Did these researchers download any of these files to verify their validity? Did they launch any of these torrents to see how may seeds / peers actually appear in the list of the client and compare that against what the site says? Did they look at multiple sites? From all of the report's I've seen so far the answer is "well, no" for all of these.

These researchers know their data is crap, but will keep coming up with these terribly inaccurate reports as long as the money keeps coming from one side. If both sides were to fund a joint study, with mutually agreed upon criteria, we may get a slightly more accurate report, but that will never happen.

First they complain about us burning up the planet, so we build them these bird killers. Now they complain that the infrastructure cannot handle what they asked for.

First -- upgrade your stupid infrastructure! You want it, you better be able to handle it. You get too much energy, store it somewhere (a lot of great ideas have been posted here).

Frankly, forget all of this crap and really go clean -- nuclear. Since the byproduct can be neutralized and used for other products it's a win-win power source.

Typical government reaction.

The children are misbehaving, according to the system, so punish the parents. If the parents are punished enough maybe they will attempt to do something about their children.

Bush may have put the money into a war to protect the US, but Obama squandered more on magical bail-outs that no one wanted, needed, or did anything for the average citizen. Obama has been in office for next to no time and he's tripled the debt -- how the hell do we expect to do anything when he is spending money we don't have? Enough said, get your facts straight and don't blame our first mentally challenged president.

The best way to restore funding for NASA is to stop spending all of this money that they don't have on crap we don't want or need. Best way to start would be a freeze on unneeded pet projects and cut everything else by 10% this year with increased cuts the following years -- unbiased, impartial, every department in a bloated government is affected. Balance the freaking budget, cut the taxes (better yet, change to a flat tax and dismantle most of the IRS), give the President line-item veto power so unnecessary riders can be killed, and you'll have the funds needed.

Stepping down from my soapbox now.

Nothing like discouraging people from wanting to buy their product -- new or used. I knew Sony was an evil empire (coming from someone that worked for them far too long), but this is just stupid.