Baltimore has almost 4,000 officers. Whence would they find 4,000 qualified and willing candidates, and how would you train and equip them in a reasonable period of time? I don't know about you, but that sounds difficult to me.

Indeed, a literacy test should drastically reduce the number of posts on Facebook.

No, they are not accepting greenbacks, nor do most vendors. They accept 1s and 0s, which we all pretend are the same as actual physical greenbacks.

Right. It will perfectly do what it's programmed to do and nothing it's not. Like every other program.

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Hey, get off my unsecured wifi already! And my lawn!

I didn't see anything about these agencies using data of ALL Americans. Presumably, NASA would need medical data on its astronauts and would need to house such data. Same with DoD holding data on service members, etc.

Um, it's already illegal to do those things. Call the police when it happens. You know, on that phone you just used to order the taxi.

How about conservatives who think that government has no place telling people who can and can't own a gun, but think it should tell people who can and can't have an abortion. And liberals who think just the opposite.

Did you not even make it half way through TFS in your race to be frist?

Lolwut? If you installed on a desktop, and it never detected a touchscreen, what's the difference?

Yeah, it wanted to be Metro so bad, it went back in time and came out years before Metro just so it could be even more Metro than Metro. THAT's how bad it wanted to be Metro.

Didn't Iron Man use one of these to make starktonium a few years ago?

Cats are nocturnal. They're sedentary during the16 hours a day you watch them, then stalk to house all night looking for bugs to torture. I'm pretty sure a computer can figure out the difference between diurnal and nocturnal.

Well, not everyone was running their own company at 17 like you.

I guess you missed the /. article a few days ago about how good North Korea's cyber unit is. They're one of the top countries, after US, Russia and China. They're Chinese trained, and work in China where the infrastructure is a little better. Say what you want about the rest of the country, their cyber capability is significant.