Verizon Wireless Frustrates The Law. tech support. An overwhelming number of you responded to Barry Gerber's request for tech support stories. In the first of what will likely be a long lived series, we present number of those responses.. From Robert...

device. It’s not just the law— it makes safety sense, too. Under these new laws, dialing, looking to see who is calling, and pressing a button to answer or make a call are permissible by law, but holding an actual conversation with phone to ear is not....

details, as well as mixing and matching between them, would not have been so seamless. The DreamWorks-HP collaboration has also resulted in two "rules of rendering." Shrek’s Law Shrek’s Law, coined by DreamWorks animators, states that for every sequel,...

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that don't belong to them. In order to try to curb the illegal copying of movies, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) law was enacted in 1998 making it illegal (in the United States) to circumvent any copy protection system. It might sound reasonable;...

Moreover, it appears that cheap parts yield cheap quality. “I know that we are seeing a high return rate on netbooks, much higher than other systems,” he told me recently. Garbage in, garbage out—the oldest law in computing. Who’d have thought it...

proprietary power connector, which we’re disappointed to see, though this standard may change in the near future thanks to the European Union’s new law requiring cell phone manufacturers to use USB-Micro connectors. Hey, if it’s good enough for the European...

manipulation. It’s always fun to assume the worst about something new, unknown, and potentially dangerous. In the post-9/11 mayhem, the government made several changes to the law that affected privacy. Some of these were contained in the USA Patriot Act,...

to stop stocking Super Soakers. Shortly after, a water fight spun out of control in New York and left two teenagers wounded. Politicians and law enforcement personnel faulted water gun makers in the wake of these tragedies, though others argued that it was...

an appropriate tool. Afterwards the program Flask Mpeg is started. We have to advice you here, that copying of copyrighted material and redistribution is illegal! However, some countries allow private copies for home use. Therefore, you have to check what law...