A guard caught with a cell phone gets administrative punishment under union rules. A guard caught with drugs goes down for a felony and loses his job.

Wait for it; Schmidt will be named to his buddy Obama's "White House Council on Jobs and Competitiveness", and it was thought best he not be GOOG CEO while doing so.

Be nice to mention what platform it's for.

...the character set isn't the problem.

And I say this as an old APL coder.

(There aren't many new APL coders.)

Obviously more fact checking is needed.

And yes, the system is designed to be able to launch even if an attack (or something else) has damaged part of the system. You know, like "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"?

It's called "redundancy". Would you want a weapon system that is disabled by any damage that might occur? Like in a war?

Why not simply make it a government agency and pay them with tax money? Obama would like that. We could call it "Ministry of Truth".

No, wait, it was actually http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174

That would help explain why the Keynesians have no problem with running up the tab and leaving it to the kids.

Like buffer overruns.

"Oops. Sorry about those extra universes that just leaked out."

Too bad you can't use disappearing ink for grocers' apostrophes. :-)

And yes, the press has been in the tank for Obama and the Dems all along.

I'll be quite happy to replace my Congresscritters, and perhaps have a shot at it now that the electorate is no longer quite so hypnotized. But quite a lot of damage has been done; a lot or repealing needs to happen.

"IBM now finds itself in a situation previously experienced by Microsoft and Intel."

  Actually, IBM now finds itself in a situation previously experienced by IBM, too.

"People Who Care About Details Trust Thesis". -- http://diythemes.com/

Presumably the licencing of the platform you're developing for could be considered a "detail"

"Ranking" broadband penetration by comparing countries like Singapore and Finland with the US containing states like Alaska, Kansas and Nevada) is just plain silly. The economics of providing network coverage are insanely sensitive to population density and land area.

...before Unka Obama told the Space Kidz he wouldn't pay for their trip to Teh Moon.

You know, when he was still lying about it before the election, so gullible nerds would support him.