This is another excuse to push tax payer's money into the big wallets. Cyber-security? If you have a system that must not be compromised, then don't connect it to the fucking Internet. And what does NATO run anyway? SNMP on its missile launchers for remote management? *duh*

Uhm, I own a console and play games regularly with my gamepad..Still I prefer the KBM for FPS & RTS games. Could you repeat the reason you were trolling me for?

There's still a long way till they manage to make a game controller that is actually better than the keyboard & mouse combo..

of the nightowl collection cdroms with bbs stuff. Waaaaay more awesome than "firefox" and "libreoffice". Meh!

Although POTS telephony is indeed better in a power failure case, on this occasion i think it has more to do with the provider's infrastructure. If you were to deploy telephony over fiber, that would probably be voip telephony which translates to the cost of an additional SIP-capable (or some other protocol) modem, and a whole shit of infrastructure changes on the provider's backbone like class 5 soft-switches, customer provisioning, personnel training etc, it's a nightmare. And as we all know, if it ain't broken don't fix it

Yes, web search history is disabled by default. So unless you were asking Google to track down your searches, you're safe.......Or you think you are safe, I bet that they keep your search history no matter of your preferences. Probably for "national security" reasons

I have accounts in both hotmail and gmail with about the same "exposure" on the internet and can't say i've seen any difference

Anyone who has had a little help-desk experience can already imagine the horrors of having to deal with a specific annoying customer every fucking time he calls for help

Because with bombs, size matters. Like G.Carling once said: "What? They have bigger dicks? BOMB THEM!"

The saddest thing about twitter & fb is that they are used by the majority of the teenagers, who in all their enthusiasm to talk-connect-post photos with others and lacking the experience needed to discriminate what one should and what one shouldn't post in the web about himself, they have no sense of the value of privacy. And when they finally "get it" after a few years, it will probably be too late for them

Most of us suspect what the future regarding personal privacy will be like. This tracking system, while at first it sounds like a very convenient way for teachers to easily access their students grades and know their weak and strong points, it is more of "another brick" in a structure that will gradually and - with the aid of other similar tracking systems and laws - eventually evolve in some Orwellian (big brother) system where all your personal history from your earliest years (your school grades, your sociality, your behavior, your political beliefs, your health records etc) will be in a single file for anyone (employers, insurance companies, the law etc) to access.

I don't think they'll ever be "outdated" since they were the pioneers of a whole comedy school (there's even a term, "pythonesque", describing their unique style of humour). And judging from some of their members most recent appearances, they still got it.