After the recent news about how easy it was to hack Social Security numbers here in the US, is it time for a new system? Possibly a system could be created as a part of a new national identity card that has been talked about on the hill many times.

Thoughts?

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Remember when large format HDTV sets cost almost $4,000? I was just over on Amazon and it looks like they have the 61" LED DLP television for less than $1400. All I can say is wow. I have an old school first gen DLP set and paid a small fortune for it. I saw this set in Best Buy and was amazed. This is the best Christmas gift you could give this year.

With this new LED set the problem with expensive bulbs is solved. Also solved would be the spinning noise that you can hear coming from the color wheel because this set doesn't use a color wheel anymore.

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From the time that I have been able to spend with it the Kindle seems like a perfect device for reading books/newspapers. The contrast ratio makes things extremely easy to read. The only thing that I don't like is the refresh rate between pages and the ghosting that is sometimes left on the next page. That being said the application of the e-ink technology was perfect for this. E-ink's low power consumption makes it last for quite sometime as a display.

• Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
• Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
• Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle--whether you're in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
• Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
• More than 120,000 books available, including more than 98 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
• New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
• Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
• Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes--all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times--all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• More than 300 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post--all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
• Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
• Holds over 200 titles.
• Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
• Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones--so you never have to locate a hotspot.
• No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments--we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.
• Includes free wireless access to the planet's most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia--Wikipedia.org.
• Email your Word documents and pictures (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG) to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing.
• Included in the box: Kindle wireless reader, Book cover, Power adapter, USB 2.0 cable

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I was just over on Amazon and it looks like they have the 61" LED DLP television for almost $400 off the list price, plus you get free shipping. This makes the price $1,675. That price alone without the free shipping is tempting me to buy a new DLP set. Currently I have a 62" DLP and I couldn't be happier with the set. The only thing I don't like is having to buy bulbs with my current DLP. With this new LED set that problem is solved. Also solved would be the spinning noise that you can hear coming from the color wheel because this set doesn't have that color wheel anymore.

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I was just over on Amazon and it looks like they have the 61" LED DLP television for almost $700 off the list price, plus you get free shipping. This makes the price $1,907. That price alone without the free shipping is tempting me to buy a new DLP set. Currently I have a 62" DLP and I couldn't be happier with the set. The only thing I don't like is having to buy bulbs with my current DLP. With this new LED set that problem is solved. Also solved would be the spinning noise that you can hear coming from the color wheel because this set doesn't have that color wheel anymore.

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We just got done seeing all the new updates from the Macworld Keynote. While there were other new products and updates I am going to be focusing on Apple TV.

Apple TV was just updated to include the ability to purchase music, rent standard definition videos and to rent HD videos. That is a great addition to a product that has been severely struggling in my opinion to find a market. While this is a huge leap forward for Apple TV, I don't think it is quite far enough to convince me to buy it. I think the thing that Apple is missing the boat on is having a DVR.

Having a DVR built into the Apple TV would be a boon for the market. It would be exactly what we need to get our media portable and take it where we want.

Just picture this scenario... You record a show last night on your new Apple TV DVR. You don't have time to watch it and transfer it to your iPod and watch it on the go. It would be the ultimate way to create your own content for the ipod and itunes. The files could still have DRM, the same way the movie rentals do and the shows you record could be set to only save for 30 days.

The tremendous upside to this for the networks is that it preserves all of the commercials that they put on their shows and gives them another stream of revenue. If they could go to an advertiser and say, "Your show XYZ was viewed by 3 million people on the air and it was recorded and watched later by another million". I think that would give them more money than selling commercial free versions of the shows.

I have always supported free ad-driven versions of television shows that people could download and watch when they wanted and on what they wanted to. Building in a DVR into Apple TV would free the networks from trying to deliver ad-supported content on their own sites, since the commercials are already in the shows.

The iTunes movie rental option is the first major step towards this since it gives you the ability to watch that rental on your ipod. The next step is to give users the ability and freedom to record and watch what they want. Just like the set top DVR's already do.

I was just over on Amazon and it looks like they have the 61" LED DLP television for almost $700 off the list price, plus you get free shipping. This makes the price $1,950. That price alone without the free shipping is tempting me to buy a new DLP set. Currently I have a 62" DLP and I couldn't be happier with the set. The only thing I don't like is having to buy bulbs with my current DLP. With this new LED set that problem is solved. Also solved would be the spinning noise that you can hear coming from the color wheel because this set doesn't have that color wheel anymore.

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I was just over on Amazon and it looks like they have the 61" LED DLP television for about $611 off the list price, plus you get free shipping. This makes the price $2,188.07. That price alone without the free shipping is tempting me to buy a new DLP set. Currently I have a 62" DLP and I couldn't be happier with the set. The only thing I don't like is having to buy bulbs with my current DLP. With this new LED set that problem is solved. Also solved would be the spinning noise that you can hear coming from the color wheel because this set doesn't have that color wheel anymore.

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I can't wait till I see one of these in a laptop, but I probably won't be able to afford them at first.

At a display forum in Tokyo this week, Sony showed off a prototype of an 11-inch screen that uses OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology. The electronics giant plans to begin selling ultrathin TVs using the screens sometime this year, the Reuters news agency reported from this week's event. That would be ahead of the tentative timetable described by Sony CEO Howard Stringer earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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I have been researching laptops recently. I don't want to get one of those desktop replacement laptops that has a 17" screen and sucks the juice out of your batteries faster than I can drink a coke. What I do want to get is a small portable laptop that I can use on the train and get some coding done in flash during my hour and a half commute. My requirements are a small form factor 12-14" screen (the smaller the better personally), bluetooth, dvd writer, 1gb+ of ram, 80gb+ hd, a very good video card, etc. I want to find something that will get the job done and let me do some work on the train.

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