Why is it you think socialism is the only alternative?

Let's go to your point: get rid of corporations. Does that require socialism? Nope! Corporations aren't the only business entity. Just them (and LLCs and any other similar cases) absolve the owners of personal liability.

Would society be different if we had no businesses where the owners weren't personally liable? You betcha. Could it work out better? Well, I'd suggest we examine that before we make your leap to socialism.

Here's a better formula that would buy you time: http://www.securitycatalyst.com/2009/09/magic-formula-for-passwords/

"A dedicated attacker may see the pattern and break in, but it's at least more time consuming for them."

Maybe if by "more time consuming" you mean a negligible amount of time.

goodpassword+sitename might buy you a couple minutes before the attacker has access to your Bank of America account. Do you think you're going to know that account credentials for MySpace were stolen within minutes, so you can go change your BoA account details?

"This is also true of Tasker -- while versatile, it is a resource and battery hog."

I see why you're posting this as Anonymous Coward. Because you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Tasker is not a battery hog. However, it doesn't prevent you from doing things that hog the battery. Want to keep your screen on and not let the phone sleep while unplugged? Knock yourself out. Want to get a GPS fix every minute? Have at it. Turn on and leave on the LED camera flash while your phone is in your pocket? Why not?

Upset that after doing all that, your battery is up in a few hours? Go cry to mommy.

I'll admit that not everything you can do with Tasker will be obvious that it will significantly affect battery. But -- insert generic warning about something ouchy happening when you play with fire here -- .

Hmm, my first thought that he wanted the drone strike to target the neighbor. Taking out the dog alone might result in the neighbor getting another one.

Right, distributing is the key.

But that means we have to figure out who it was distributed to, and by whom. I think we can agree that the owners of the targeted Iranian computers were recipients of the distribution, so they get to request the source, right? (Ha!)

But what about anyone else? If the distribution to other people was not authorized the the original distributor (e.g. an Iranian infects Internet-connected computers after his air-gapped nuclear equipment controlling system was infected), I'm not sure they'd have the right to request the source. But I haven't read the GPL in quite some time.

I found this project when looking for a solution to my "keep all photos/videos on USB drive, subset A on one computer, subset B (potentially overlapping with A) on another computer" problem.

It looked like it would work...then I read the fine print. Doesn't work on Windows. D'oh!

A good idea in theory, but in practice, a pain in the butt that most people will not want to deal with.

Just a side comment, but don't you think it's a little demeaning to dismiss the heartfelt beliefs of major segments of today's human population as "mythology"?

Good idea. Instead of letting a laser make it impossible to see out the windows from glare, we'll make it so a laser makes it impossible to see out the window because it makes it opaque. ;)

"Come on, who do you think is at fault here - the young teenager taking the easy money being offered? Or the multinational corporation with packages designed to temp said teenager, and profit massively out of the situation?"

How is it you missed the other party in your search for fault? The federal government that guarantees all the loans? If the government guarantees that the banks will get their money, doesn't it make sense for the banks to take advantage of that?

Where are you banking, because I want to bank there!

Or when you say "a return", are you referring to an amount less than inflation, so they're giving you more dollars back, but less purchasing power, for letting them use it in the meantime? In that case, I already have one of those.

The problem, of course, is that "newsworthy" == "whatever train wreck gets us the most viewers for our advertisers". When it comes to actual useful information, facts, context and statistics, you may as well forget the news media.

You're comparing apples to oranges, or rather, raw material to finished, useful goods. A kilogram chunk of rocky metal in space is worth a lot less than a kilogram of food, or equipment. At least until there's the capacity to manufacture any needed item in space, and getting that infrastructure in place is going to cost a lot too.