A pilot can not be left alone in cockpit with a terrorist because the terrorist will kill the pilot. A flight attendant can not be left alone in cockpit with a pilot because the pilot will fuck the flight attendant. A terrorist can not be left alone in cockpit with a flight attendant because the flight attendant will have the terrorist to return to his seat.

Not if the "substantial edits" can cite a biased journal or "news" site that support the new claims. Wikipedia has a serious problem with controversial topics because "the rule of Wikipedia is that authority trumps accuracy," and people with big megaphones and too much time on their hands can find or make "authoratative" sources that support their worldview regardless of the facts.

Because large corporations have never gotten judges to issue questionable court orders...

Oh well. Worst case scenario, at least there would be due process for those accused before their websites were destroyed, right? Would you care to comment on my other two points?

The problem isn't that the day after the bill gets passed, we'll experience a media blackout. These things happen in steps. Thailand started censoring porn, but once the system and precedent was established they went on to censoring political content. Many, many other countries followed similar paths, starting by censoring some things and then getting worse and worse. (disable javascript to view Wikipedia)

Also, "facilitating the commission" of copyright infringement (which SOPA and PIPA includes in their infringing site definition) is so broad that the many non-tech-savvy judges will be able to be influenced through heavy lobbying by MPAA and the like.

Lastly, H.R. 3261, Title I, 103.d (in SOPA) does allow plaintiffs to issue court orders to service providers from what I understand.

From the benchmarking, you're right. It's a faster HDD than other HDD's, but nowhere near the performance of an SSD. Labeling it as an SSD/HDD hybrid is misleading and wrong.

I get my free porn from torrents, which I would assume are too complicated to explain to your friend. So what did you suggest? Redtube? 4chan? (shudder)

Porn seems to be distinguished from naked pictures based solely on community standards. From the still-lingering influence of America's Puritanical origins, the community standards there are rather strict on anything involving sex, nudity, or children.

and I monitor /. What now, bitches?

Agreed. My first thought after reading the title was a large network of machines making microsecond stock purchases and sales with other machines, hoping that its algorithms are good enough to turn a profit. Some senior British official proposed a small fee per stock transaction to prevent that from happening, claiming that it would hurt the "buy and hold" stock purchasers, but I hadn't heard anything for a while. Samsonite? I was way off!

As a PC owner with a polarized projector setup, I'm mush more interested in ATI's Catalyst 10.3 coming out in March that will have 3D support in the stereoscopic sense. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/catalyst-eyefinity-radeon,2559-2.html (Yes, I know it's offtopic. It still makes me giddy and I don't have anyone else to tell.)

My point, which upon re-read was probably too subtle, is that playing games in fun. Who the hell cares if it's virtual? And if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.

A few years ago, I started masturbating, well I must admit that I was instantly hooked-up. I spent the next 3 years masturbating hardcore, and became very good at it. Eventually, I managed to become quite skilled and could go for hours at a time. I was very successfull in masturbating... That was until I lost everything, when my -ahem- was blown by a woman and I realized it fely way, way better. In a heartbeat, I lost everything I had, everything I spent time for. I realised that it took only a second to destroy three entire years of efforts. I finally "woke up", stopped masturbating and never touched it again. Peoples need to understand that masturbating is just that - it doesnt result in anything - the only real thing is the time and commitment one can spend on masturbating.