For years I struggled with the greater-than/less-than signs because I didn't realize that the limitation of reading it from left-to-right was in effect. I often wondered what would happen if you went from right-to-left, would you have to change it from greater-than to less-than (or vise-versa)? I don't know how, but I was never ever able to convey that question to any teacher well enough for an answer. Nor did they ever explain it so I understood. I was so furious at myself years later when I realized (during a programming class) the simplicity of it.

I love how a "Raytheon Reset" probably fixed the issue.

Yeah, I was just thinking "Rising CO2 levels?".

+1

"Oceans of Diamonds"??? De Beers has that already. Have you ever heard of "Artificial Scarcity"?

Email, it works wonders at keeping accountability. If they ignore you, let it go. After all, there are about a hundred tasks facing every business owner which are more important than every IT policy to come down the pipe.

Marketing. All the hot girls are usually in Marketing. ...I love marketing departments.

What happens when a 18 year-old is convicted for statutory rape of his 17 year-old girlfriend when they have consensual sex? He's now most likely a registered sex offender. Is he banned from Facebook?

.....For McCain!!!

Seriously though, who will buy this? This is honestly the best news for OTA fans that I can imagine. No one, tech enthusiast or not, is going to be OK with cable companies monitoring them. All this will do is push more and more individuals to Netflix, Hulu, HTPC. Cable companies are on the way out. Dumb-Pipe, here we come.

Good question. I was referring to the "continuity sensors" that would detect jailbreaking and such. When I first read this, I was thinking of the current state of jailbreaking, which is a software hack. So I assumed the these continuity sensors were software in nature and somehow monitored the install process. But then I remembered that the first attempts at jailbreaking were hardware in nature. That's when I realized that these continuity sensors were in fact hardware related. So yes, my initial statement about installing the software of my own choosing doesn't really apply to this.

They can include whatever sensors they want. And I can buy whatever I want. There's no way I'll buy a smartphone that doesn't allow me to install software of my choice. This walled-garden crap is making me look to the HTC Hero, or whatever new Android phone is on the horizon.

Wow, who's going to be lining up to buy this product now? Nothing scares away potential customers like the threat of a potential lawsuit, ...just from generating some docs. (What does their product do again?_

My sweet, sweet inter-tubes. You are a cruel and fickle Mistress

We had an outage today. Our servers are hosted with Genesis Hosting, which suffered an outage from their ISP; XO Communications in Chicago. Anyone know what happened?

Will we see "Frodo Lives!" in Farsi now?