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It's a running joke, because he was voted President of the Internet in a TechRepublic poll a few years ago.

I recall President Laporte doing an interview at CES with a company producing headphones that already perform this functionality, and then some. I can't recall the name at the mome…

Those are more anomalies than exceptions, as neither group was beholden to a recording contract at the time of those releases.

Just curious. Why are you ruining such a good domain by redirecting to www.chee.rs?

Ignoring the absolutely horrible name, this will be dead on arrival because of the price alone. Even for a new or small company that doesn't have the industry clout or initial unit…

The reasons for this are obvious, and probably have nothing to do with the cost, difficulty, or politics of streaming. It's more likely due to the majority of their by-mail custome…

It's even worse than that, unfortunately, as it's already being reported (by people that should know better) as a "hack": http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/anonymous-hacks-doj-univ…

That's a double-edged sword. If a significant portion of the population adamantly boycotted any particular industry, their response would be to claim piracy as the cause and use it…

Consonances are sometimes described as being inherently more pleasant to the ear and dissonances as less pleasant. This is probably the only article I've read about harmony that pr…

Where in Google's blog post do they claim to still follow the link? They provide no technical details for their process, so if we're speculating, it would make far more sense that …

Perhaps "most of" the tech enthusiasts. The average person has no idea.

Out of the three high schools I attended in the late 90s, there was only one computer related class available, in one school, and in one grade. It was an intro to programming with …

Do you honestly believe that Chrome is gaining significant market share because there is a single, rather uninformative blog post on sites like Telecommuting Mommies and The Debt P…

If the add-on is actually causing excessive page requests and erroneous support inquiries, this seems like a very reasonable response. And they didn't ask the users to uninstall th…

Ah, good call. Very easy to miss that link.

Interesting that this and the OP's solutions result in different answers.

I don't think you understand how the government works. Most dystopian legislation is written and paid for by those "random" companies.

I don't think those are proper analogies. The reason everyone is so outraged by GoDaddy's stance is because they claimed there are no moral or technical downsides to the bill, and …

Except they didn't cave. They made a press release that they thought would appease the general public as a stop-loss measure. GoDaddy still supports SOPA privately, and likely even…

The push for these bills really started years ago when pharma companies were desperately trying to prevent the purchase of drugs from Canada and other countries. The entertainment …

How could this possibly be patentable? We've been able to make calls and multitask from laptops for over 20 years. You can't claim it as inventive just because the laptop can now f…

Don't you ever get tired of being reasonable and/or logical, Nick?

I would say any system whose failure quickly results in the loss of life should always have properly trained staff either on location or trivially close. Anything less than that wo…

I wouldn't argue against contacting your representative, but I'm curious: Has there ever been a documented occasion where a politician actually switched their stance based on e-mai…