I'll buy it - as long as the device shows me images of Cameron like these:

http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x03_05.jpg

http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x08_04.jpg

http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/1401/1x08_08.jpg

http://summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/scc_hq/fox2_04-summer-beauty_0880.jpg

This is fabulous! I loved that book!

Why this book has never been made into a movie, I don't know! It has all the power of "Titanic"! I could even see Celine Dion's song being sung over the credits! Seriously!

Great move, Mike!

Well, if Howard starts readings from his old "Mama Liz" porn stories from the 70's, it could get real interesting!

Bandwidth cost would shoot through the roof!

Anybody but me remember those?

My mother used to work for Woolworth's here in the US as a floor walker back in the 60's.

Go ahead - bomb it! She would approve!

Her considered opinion was that all the managers were idiots. They bought tons of what didn't sell and sold out of what did sell.

It's no surprise they're gone here.

Adobe media products are known for this nonsense. I have a client who does digital media conversion - taking people's film, stills, video, etc. and digitizing and converting it. They run most of the Adobe media products.

Adobe has an incredibly stupid licensing manager that generates a "fake" Windows service with a random name as part of the process. It's a Macromedia software, apparently. This results in Windows Firewall claiming that a whole bunch of services exist that actually don't and that they're listening on a bunch of ports.

Periodically, we've had the thing fail due to some minor hardware change or something.

Adobe software is about as reliable as Windows itself - that is, not.

The amusing thing is that I put in the Adobe product name in Google one time to do a search for problem solving - and the site at the top of the results page was a crack site.

So much for Adobe DRM.

Here's the reality:

ANYBODY arrested in the US on the city, county, state AND Federal level is VERY likely to be treated like this - especially on the Federal level. I have personal experience with this fact. This is how it's done just about everywhere.

This is HOW law enforcement routinely treats prisoners. You see all this nonsense on TV with cops carrying guns into interrogation rooms, and prisoners in street clothes in holding cells, yada, yada.

It doesn't work like that. You're stripped, searched, handcuffed, chained, moved, thrown into a concrete holding cell with a stainless steel toilet and a concrete bench jutting out of the wall to sit on for the next eight to twelve hours while they process the other ten thousand people they arrested today for jaywalking in this fucking fascist country. You get no food unless you've been lucky enough to be arrested and desposited in the holding cell shortly before scheduled prisoner meal times - otherwise, well, the cops attitude is fuck you. You probably have no toilet paper in your holding cell, so hold it in as best you can for the next eight hours or more.

And if you complain, you get your kidneys beaten to a pulp with a nightstick or you get tasered to death or in some cases simply beaten to death.

Two Federal correctional officers beat a Federal prisoner to death at the Oklahoma Federal Transport Center back in the 90's. They tried to block the Oklahoma City Coroner from entering the facility until he got a court order. The FBI was called in and they "investigated" by throwing the inmate's bloody clothes into the trunk of an agent's car and driving around with them for a month until he complained they were stinking up his car, thus ruining the evidence. The DoJ threatened to cut off the state's Federal law enforcement funds unless they dropped the investigation.

This is how it works in the real world.

This is REALITY, folks. This has BEEN the REALITY for suspects and criminals alike in this country for DECADES.

Back in the 70's, Federal inmates were ROUTINELY beaten every time they arrived at a facility in order to convince them not to cause any trouble. They are STILL routinely beaten if they arrive from a facility where there has just been a riot - even if they had nothing to do with the riot, as was the case in October 1995. Inmates arriving at Leavenworth from other facilities were immediately beaten upon leaving the transport bus, then forced to stand at attention against the wall for hours and beaten again if they moved.

There is NO surprise here as to what she went through physically. It's merely slightly unusual that they went through all this stupid shit for a woman who overstayed her visa TWELVE GODDAMN YEARS AGO, That's the stupid paranoia part that perhaps has something to do with 9/11 - the rest is how it's always done.

The rest is what you get when you get arrested or detained in the "land of the free".

I may be dense, but it looks like a large page of circles with notes in them.

Where's the linkage?

Where's the mapping?

Unimpressed.

Sirius has been promoting one cause after another for the last twenty years.

None of them went anywhere because nobody outside a loose band of libertarian lunatics knows him - and quite frankly, nobody takes him or his projects "Sirius-ly".

So this will go nowhere as well. Unless, as others have suggested, he gets some "Serious" people to sign on and promote it themselves.

I agree with oboreruhito that Radiohead shouldn't be blamed for the hype around what they were doing.

People took a lot of the commentary around what they were doing and extrapolated from it more than the band was intending. The evidence shows that the band never intended to trick anyone. However, the band also never intended to push the envelope as far as some people think they should.

That said, hopefully Radiohead learned from this experience that they CAN take the next step and release full quality albums directly for download without DRM and without worrying about "lost sales due to piracy" and still make a profit.

Selling music as physical merchandise is OVER. Selling ACCESS to music is still viable as long as that access is problem- and DRM- free. This is what the Radiohead experiment proves. When their site slowed down, people switched to P2P. They also switched when the site required registration.

Eventually, however, the access will have to be direct to the artist as it was before the music industry formed to sell music as a physical product.

The future of the music business is live performance over the Net. Reduce your touring, make greater and more frequent contact with your customers, cheaper production costs, ad revenue, better marketing to a larger audience, it's all there for the taking of some forward-looking band.