If it's so dead and useless, why can't you toss it in your checked bags?

I got my pitchfork right here. Let's go!

How are we going to get there, again?

And one that is generally frowned upon by religious people. The names are essentially anti-religious, not religious, in nature.

If the state of Utah is theocratic and makes funding decisions based on particle names, choosing blasphemous ones is not the path to big research bucks. Mormons take the prohibition against taking the name of deity in vain pretty seriously.

I mean, the smallpox was there, why not the plutonium?

The mistake I was referring to was smallpox's occasional error in failing to leave a few survivors.

Writing zeros to every byte of a 32GB flash drive takes less than an hour, even with very slow flash (10 MB/sec write speed).

...which still doesn't allow two different Steam logins to play the same game at the same time unless it is in both their game libraries.

I'm surprised there are console games that allow you to buy one copy and play on more than one console at the same time, as tepples seems to imply in the GP post.

And, they also might have less tweaks for graphics so that in a few years when that $75 card can run the game at max settings, you still can't get any better quality with a $300 card (which matches today's $700 cards). All the $300 card will do is allow you to run at a higher overall resolution, which eventually will start to expose things like lower polygon counts, lack of anti-aliasing (even injected after the fact sometimes doesn't work), etc.

A battery *IS* a bomb. It has the amount of stored releasable energy as a hand grenade. It just generally releases it slower.

Rig it to detonate when the battery is removed. Then slip it in as someone else's and don't claim it at the end. Blow the security station, and not even have to suicide yourself.

Ah, I had an HP 7100. One of the larger laptops I owned. 300cc of C4 is less than 10% of the volume of the laptop. Pull the heat sinks and fans (it'll run long enough to POST, but I wouldn't think that would be good for it), and you could put in 5 times that.

Pro-active is stopping the plots before they are trying to board. And the policy does nothing to catch bombers. It's more likely to catch scammers with skimmers, which is well outside the TSA's charter. I've seen 10 credit card skimmers hidden in one device (and it still turned on, anyway).

Most, maybe. But there are a substantial number that do demand a degree, and the non-degreed will always have at least a small handicap, because given two otherwise equivalent candidates, the one with the degree is likely to get the job, and after 10 years or so the extra four years of experience aren't going to mean as much as the formal education.

In addition, if at some point in your career you want to move into another career track the degree may well become even more important -- though the choice of major may become much less important.

Well, everyone makes mistakes once in a while.