You mean in Die Hard 4, Die Harder? or Independence Day? Or The Net? or Hackers? etc....

I remember in Die Hard 4, a computer virus made a house blow up! Does Skyfall one-up this?

.. you're doing it wrong.

You get up when the sun is up and sleep when it's down, or just accept it gets darker longer in the winter months and get more sunlight in the summer months (assuming you're in the Northern Hemisphere).

Stop mentally messing people up by changing clocks. People's bodies are very resilient, and will adapt accordingly. Heck we see that with babies all the time when trying to get them to sleep through the night. Besides technology exists enough now that this time change is not longer required.

Is this topic really necessary on /.?

This is very short-sighted of you. Don't discount this 19 year old's business sense. Hell, I'll be he's doing a heck of a lot better financially at 19 than most people 30 years older then him. I agree sell, but not because he's not capable, but because he will have the capital to move on to a bigger and better business.

Beyond the whole Shareholders argument, you have a duty to protect the data that you've asked for, and in some cases demanded of your customers. This is their data that they agreed to share with your company only. The rest of this discussion should be moot, but if you insist upon another reason, if the people of this country realized how much hacking is going on they have a chance to defend themselves against identity theft, bank account theft, outright fraud against them.

With all these corporations holding this information secret they are in essence assisting criminals in stealing their customer's data.

With this said, I also believe that if more of our talented hacker type folk were aware of this shit, they might show their abilities by going after the initial hackers with a vengeance.

The citizens of this country are being used by corporations for our personal information at every turn and they are not willing to protect this information, as such they should be fined $100.00 per day per customer information stolen until reported. So if you have 100 customers and it takes you 3 days to report a hack then your company should see an instant fine of $30,000. This would severely hurt a small company. Now make this a more realistic number for large corporations: 1,000,000 customers and 3 days, and BAM $300,000,000.00 fine would wake up some boards real fucking quick.

Goodness, we just saw an almost exact same post yesterday. Are we that in need of news articles?

... and I could no sooner pick one over the other. Kudos to the creators of the various logos.

.... she is bigger than a plane.

I truly could not stand the movie Idiocracy simply because the portrayal of such a dumbed down society absolutely terrifies and disgusts me. But as I listen to the news and how information is spoon-fed to society, and the type of crap that is called good entertainment I weep for our future.

It's just getting ridiculous. All this legal crap about copyrights. Augh

it's amazing how many people just need to ask a quick question but spend 3 minutes per call in voice mail messaging mazes, just to eventually ask for a person.

And for those that need a lot of help those voice mail navigation to the right department only further frustrates customers who are the back bone of any company.

Maybe not if it's on a closed phone network.

Kill the rule that allows for automated messages to be sent, ALL PHONE CALLS MUST BE FROM A LIVE PERSON WHO CAN INTERACT WITH THE RECEIVER.

Stop allowing Phone Companies to be Billing agencies for other companies.

Stop allowing call spoofing, where you receive a call and it's a hand up or something else, you call back and you get the Telephone company message "Sorry but this number is no longer in service."

Read the fucking web, there are thousands of gripes about robocalling violations.

Stop all Surveys and Presidential robocalls also.

Stop allowing companies to SELL OUR FUCKING INFORMATION.

Fine the telemarketer Managers and the companies large fees.

Trace the calls. You already monitor all of our lives anyways.

Repeat violators will be SHOT.

Don't let out of country business buy phone services in the US.

Let Anonymous go after them. They are great at track people down who piss them off, and their retaliation will be swift and painful.

Lets start with some of those.

In a communist society, people are forced into a field where they excel regardless of whether they like it or not. Our general education system is designed to ensure every student is taught the same basic information; otherwise if we don't do that, then underprivileged students will claim they were denied the same education as those not deemed underprivileged.

General education is the same for everyone. If you think your son is not good a Chemistry, fine, that's not his area of forte, but what's wrong with private tutoring outside of the classroom to help fulfill you're son's strengths, or to help him in his weaknesses.

Frankly, this just sounds like a gripe to me.
Pull your kid from school, and home school him, then you can work with him on those subjects he's excelling at and those he sucks at.

Situation solved.

This was supposed to say "Humans wrote the "insert holy book here" based on people that were perceived to be something special.