This would be perfect along with a tiered system depending on how well you do on the simulated test. The higher you score the more privileges you have, and have some sort of symbol on your car to indicate your tier. Allow higher tiered drivers to reasonably, legally exceed the speed limit, allow them to make a phone call, etc etc. If you can prove that you can safely perform these tasks, why shouldn't you be allowed to? Also retests every 3 years.

woosh!

And probably a couple more windows because you just pissed him off.

I had my car broken into once, had my girlfriend's purse stolen and my new speakers stolen. They couldn't get the radio out so they just smashed it and much of the dash.

Best way to save your stuff is to not be a target. Don't give them a reason to even consider that there is something in the car. Keep everything clean, and dont make it look like you're hiding anything. My friend had his window smashed out for a pack of cigarettes once.

Yes, I also find myself booting into safemode more than I would like.

Most April fool jokes from the likes of slashdot and google just make me go "I wish this was real" more than being funny.

*Still waiting for my TiSP hookup*

... that all of our electronics are made in china. At first I was worried about what this would mean for electronics, then I remembered that nothing is actually made in Japan, just designed there, sometimes.

Rackspace is not a carrier though. It is a hosting service.

In real world terms, lets say the road is the internet. Some municipality owns this road, you have to pay a toll to drive on it. But no one is going to stop you from having a car full of for instance, swastika pins.

On the other hand, say you rent a store front at the mall and decide to sell these pins. When you sign the lease, there is a clause that says "....You agree not to distribute hate material or propaganda, or anything else deemed offensive...". If you don't agree with this clause, don't sign the contract. Buy your own land and open a store.

You have no right or entitlement to be able to rent that store, and if you break contract, they can shut your store down. In this same way, Rackspace should NOT be forced to allow you to keep your site hosted. If you want to do something that isn't allowed by contract, run your own host.

So all someone has to do to access ALL of your accounts is steal your phone? But that would never happen, who's ever heard of a phone get stolen?

For those 4000 years, those keys have been easily stolen or copied, allowing me access to your house, car, PO box, etc.

Every day i see people leave their keys laying around. How is this system any better?

Could you cite these studies? I have heard this repeated time and time again, and while I agree with your argument as a whole, I'd like to actually read over one of these studies that people keep referring to.

There are PLENTY of other tools other than visual studio that can be used to develop for windows. Free. In many different languages too!

A bit off topic, but Microsoft actually offers Visual Studio and many other tools for free to students via DreamSpark. Not old and outdated either, newest versions and such. I have always been anti-MS but this actually seems like a sensible move to encourage develpment.

If the economy car decided where you could and couldn't drive it, and cost more than the truck, this analogy would be valid.

My netbook:

Yes

SSD, so yes.

Why would I want smudges all over my screen when I could type on a physical keyboard with tactile feedback and control it without tiring my arm?

No, its more like comparing a roller coaster to an airplane. You are in the air, and it's kinda cool but entirely useless, and in the end you cant choose where you're going and end up back where you started.

Im Guessing those other 15% have flash?

Many. But most linux infections I've seen were specifically targeted at that system. A clueless user on linux is still a clueless user that will install and run things as root with moderate SE

AFAIK dell hasnt been shipping a disc since at least 2005. I was actually quite surprised when my lenovo laptop came with a disc last year and also had a recovery partition. Paid no extra, didn't ask for it, and it probably cost an extra $0.05 to lenovo to press the disc. I have no problem paying the premium for them to press the disc if it is included in the product price.