Why not just set up an organization to slowly release advancements made for military uses while giving time for the industry to adapt? Just seems simpler and more cost effective.

In the face of money spent on financial disasters and wars your comment seems a bit less then "well-justified".

Finding a non-human intelligence to converse with on our own planet....priceless. I cant think of anything more important that we could do with dolphins then learn to communicate with them. Chimps to. We have a whole planet to screw up. Surely we can spare a couple of species for conversation......

Hulu will now get payed from both advertisers and you.

Why do you think it's Netflix? Maybe it's you ISP? This problem started for me when Comcast took over my local ISP. At the same time as the switch over there was a rush of people who brought in their computer for repair or upgrade because their internet connection was acting funny. When i finally complained enough they sent out a technition who told me they had installed allot of new software. Is /. trolling?

This would allow a clever terrorist to find any number of targets very quickly. And if they were silly enough to do something like add unique identifiers to what they blur based on value(like an increased bluryness or size of blur) it would be even more helpful in mapping out high value targets and maximum damage scenarios. But this is a politician so by default his motive feels suspect.

I knew the American consumer was being screwed when I got a 5 year old model cellphone at 4 times the price plus an exorbident 2 year contract after coming back from Japan. It's a scam and one that is hurting us as a nation.

I am reminded of the story about the goose that laid the golden egg. Setting any kind of state wide per bit tax would drive companies away that use the internet to deliver a product witch the states already tax unless all of the states got together and did this at once. In which case the heart of the internet would be driven further from U.S.

Just an excuse to drop support for XP since it will now be two generations old. This remind anyone of ME?

It would be terrible to loose all these papers that reprint Associated Press stories and push the agenda of the rulers on their readership. death to any system that relies on controlling the distribution system rather then offering a better product.

How does this seem to have a positive spin? Now the fates of individual users will be decided between corporations.

No. The independent artists will no longer be a threat because they wont be able to pay the large content delivery guys(Comcast, AT&T, etc....) for a fast enough upload speed to make their sites commercially viable. This is turning into TV all over again.

"But there's an obvious problem: nothing is simpler than a sweep of blue sky, or the inky blackness of space. If simplicity is the benchmark, space itself is evidence of design." What? I don't understand how something not being simple enough for our limited intelligence to understand constitutes divine creation?