m It's not a crime to owe money, and debtors' prisons were abolished in the United States in the 19th century. But people are routinely being thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. In Minnesota, which has some of the most creditor-friendly laws in the country, the use of arrest warrants against de...

Hopefully many will feel the same way you do. For me to ever consider Windows again, Microsoft will have to show that not only are the putting back these features, but that they are taking the platform seriously too. The Windows Shopping Bag, a.k.a. Windows Store will need to, at minimum, be relegat...

Anyone who has a pulse and a brain at Microsoft, you should read this article and think: m The article's mostly about how Google has closed sourced bits and pieces of Android. For some of these apps, there might still be an AOSP equivalent, but as soon as the proprietary version was launched, all wo...

You know, other than being able to move things around and and perhaps Aero, there's really nothing that Windows 7 improved on the taskbar. I particularly hate the way it hides icons by default. It squeezes way too much into those right-click context menus for running programs in my eyes. And that fu...

Oops. I forgot all about that. Laugh out loud!

FWIW, the new device showed today and I'm loving it. Call clarity has much improved compared to the old one and no more need to have the PC running! Woot! I contacted Tech Support before beginning the endeavor, as the documentation did not cover upgrading (keeping your account and all that), glad I ...

A not too dissimilar idea has been implemented for years. Shooting a wire to anything metal on the car and apply voltage, essentially applying voltage to ground.