USCoA: FCC has no authority to force net neutrality

Beat. Bad beat. The FCC struck a blow for internet freedom...and the courts struck one right back for big telecom...

Trailer: Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D

I'm....cautiously optimistic. Which is a big step for me.

Game: Scrabble to allow Proper Nouns

Xenophobia. Name of affliction of fear of that which is unlike oneself as a proper noun. Triple word score. Triple letter score on the X. Booyah.

News: Glasses-free 3D screens coming to Sharp mobile touchscreens

News: 'Lt. Van Buren' leaving 'Law & Order' after 16 years

Sad...basically the longest lasting member of the cast is leaving the show after the last 16 (of 20 total) seasons of 'Law & Order'

News: SCOTUS Justice Stevens hints at retirement

Sports: Jazz' Malone, Bulls' Pippen elected to BBall Hall of Fame

News: Regulators investigating unpaid internships

Just making it unpaid doesn't mean you get free labor. Interesting given the rise of unpaid internships in the downturn. Isn't having interns do the work cheaper than having an employee do it anyway? Making it a paid internship isn't a whole lot less cost savings than unpaid....especially considering the fine.

List: Top 10 meanest tricks videogames every played on us

Sports: Twins' Span hits own mother with foul ball

That's just unlucky. And if his mother is anything like mine, he'll never hear the end of it. Rightfully so....

News: Councilman axed by city council for facebook game obsession

HA! Even after a warning from the council chairman, he 'continu[ed] to manage his farm and milk his cows despite [the chairman]'s warnings.'

News: Ricky Martin confirms he's gay

Been saying it since 8th grade. Never thought I'd be right.

News: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released!

First official version of open-source security project finally released!

News: Court OKs repeated tasering of pregnant woman

Really? Wow...just wow. Because it was set on 'stun' and not 'dart' mode, it's not excessive force, according to the court. Is there no consideration about the NUMBER of times she was tasered? No? WTF? So as long as it's only on a low pain setting, I can taser someone as much as I want? Something's not right in that logic.

News: New RFID tag could be end of bar codes

At 3 cents per tag, this is getting to a place that is cost-possible for manufacturers.

I remember a commercial a few years back. A guy in a trenchcoat, trying hard to look suspicious, is walking around a grocery store. He keeps picking up items and 'hiding' them in his trenchcoat, all the while being followed by a stern looking security gaurd. After getting a punch of items, he walks through some blue-looking force field. The security gaurd stops hip.....to give him the receipt he forgot.

The blue field was a scan of some kind. It picked out the items in his pockets and charged, presumably, an account on file. Pretty cool that this is close to being reality.

My problem is this: What happens if I bring an item I have already purchased INTO the store, and then walk back out? Am I charged again? How will the system be able to differentiate items already purchased from those buying this time through? This is mostly for clothing stores (at least, in my head), but what is the answer here?