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;...

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...

Now why would it be that only "El Cheapo" notebooks come with Mobile Athlon? I see two possible reasons. The first one is the good old term "positioning." This "law" says that a high-end notebook has to come with the top-notch Intel mobile processor and cannot...

the technology is pretty strong. Chipmaker XtremeSpectrum, who in June 2002 announced shipment of their Trinity chipset reference design to select OEMs, is a good example. Calling the Trinity chipset "Moore's Law radio", XtremeSpectrum is aiming for the wireless...

of time in the air with their laptops: despite energy-saving mobile processors inside the notebook and sophisticated management mechanisms, the battery's juice almost always seems to run out just when you need to access your data, with Murphy's Law in full...