> It doesn't sit well with me and I won't do business that way.

What is the problem with reducing your energy cost while at the same time helping the planet?

While I usually like pricks, in your case I will make an exception.

Stop complaining.

Microsoft fixed it, didn't they?

Microsoft takes security seriously.

(Hey, stop it. Stop laughing. Hey, I said STOP LAUGHING!)

> Austin, TX loves to do this around 2am so that the green starts on an UP HILL! Fine,
> I'll burn more gas and contribute to global warming...with fucking glee!!!

Don't think of it as increasing global warming, which some Texans would tell you doesn't even exist. Rather, think of it as helping the business of all those poor, underprivileged oil producers. Texas is a PRO-business state. One of the legislators said so.

> The idea is that when you are 1000m away from the light and can't see the countdown
> timer your car tells you something like "maintain 30kph to avoid having to stop".

It would be much more welcome news to hear my car tell me: "increase speed to 85 mph to avoid having to stop".

At least most modern mobile plans give you unlimited SMS.

> They now call themselves Premier Election Systems.

OT, I know, but shouldn't that be: Premier Election Rigging Systems?

Okay. Let me amend the article summary for you . . .

"Symantec has demonstrated it with an ATM in its labs, though it is not revealing the brand of the vulnerable machines . . . because Diebold already has a bad enough reputation with it's e-voting machines.

Better?

Look, it is not an entitlement mentality. Isn't the first amendment all about the freedom of being able to express a point of view supporting intelligent design, and then force other people to agree with it?

We've all seen the professionals get it wrong. Sometimes very wrong.

Furthermore, dedicated ammatuers who focus on a particular subject often have quicker and better coverage of news on that topic. Professional mass media news often over simplifies news, sometimes to the point of almost losing the story.

Then we've all seen the bias of professional news organizations. Freedom of the press is for whoever owns one. Look at how all mainstream mass media was completely silent about SOPA until the Internet forced the issue into the public eye. Then, the professional journalists all told whatever story their owners wanted us to hear.

I'm not saying that professional journalism is all bad. It's just not all good either. And the same for ammatuers. It is up to you to decide what news sources you trust. Some professionals have, and should rightfully so, not be given any trust.

We now have news channels that are more about info-tainment and the most fantastical splashy graphics than they are about real news. Closing down bureaus and getting rid of real investigative reporters because it is cheaper to just do talking heads? Then we also have professional news sources whose entire purpose is to promote a particular ideology. So maybe, increasingly, the only difference between the ammatuers and professionals is how big a budget they have? Now TV news anchors have to be fashion models. But in the past they had to be journalists who eventually earned the position of anchor. They weren't models, they just had to look okay.

So I find arguments about the goodness of professional news over news on the internet to be less than completely convincing.

Not a girl.

> Google was only furious because the NSA was accessing the data without paying.

Wrong. Google was only furious because the NSA was accessing the data without seeing ads.

Better to compromise certificate authorities than to compromise certificates.

After all, who wouldn't trust a certificate authority. There are so many to choose from.

If your browser is presented with a genuine signed Google.com certificate, issued by Honest Achmed's Trusty Certificates of Tehran Iran, then why shouldn't your browser just trust this certificate from a trusted CA?

> How DID the Narn (an agrarian society at that time) manage to drive the Shadows from their home world?

I thought it was clear that Narn telepaths "mind walkers" did this. Perhaps the Narn had especially powerful telepaths, and that was the reason it was necessary to remove the telepath gene from the Narn race.

Yes. Yes, this. I was going to ask the same.

> What's wrong with notepad?

What's wrong with Edlin?