Or between six beers and waking up next to CowboyNeal... Sheesh. Too PG.

Well, you still have it. It's a vulnerability, not a teddy bear.

There is no cognitive fault, but instead, a conditioned, and, frankly, dangerous, view of software as protected by legal remedy. This idea has left us with shit software supported by careless organizations propagating paper-thin security already compromised by rafts of governments. A network is a dangerous place, and software and hardware should treat networks like the wild west when it comes to privacy/security.

On your other point, regarding "protection money," the reasoning is rather simple. People respond to incentives. If hackers have little to no financial reason to disclose a vulnerability to Yahoo, some may be motivated to find other ways to monetize their efforts. Forget legality/morality for a second and just think about incentives. What Yahoo is doing is removing their incentive for responsible disclosure. By providing a T-Shirt voucher, they're probably incentivizing attack by otherwise disinterested parties, just for the middle-finger of it all.

I've made my own, but you can buy them inexpensively. They're really convenient if you're, say, trying to keep devices from popping the VMWare Fusion Mac/Linux selection dialog or complaining about ejection.

So, yeah, this guy made a board, but a cut-line extension cable has been the answer to this problem for a while. Some devices may fuss or trickle charge, but it generally works.

Do you have good ideas? Okay. If you have good ideas and good understanding, can you be more effective for the company as a whole as an individual contributor or a leader of six or seven decent implementors/learners?

- If you can push ideas, techniques, and wisdom into other team members, you can make your whole team more effective.
- Formalization/recognition of this helps to grease organizational uptake (though this can admittedly break down). Still, making you a team lead is putting faith in your judgment. This is not necessarily the same as making you a manager, but there is some crossover.
- If you weren't the leader because you actively declined the position, congratulations, you just demonstrated an unwillingness to be leveraged.

I'm not a manager, and I prefer when ideas trump rank, but get real. Companies want people who can help them cultivate teams and act as rudders. They're looking for people they can leverage to make their whole team better.

And, yes, "leverage" is a douchy management word these days, but anyone should get what I mean here. You may not sure that it is right, but people who lift teams up are hard to find.

That said, if you're the silent type, lead with code. Create examples of competence, and see them ask the way through, even if that means finding advocates to help you. There are ways to demonstrate value and improve your resume that don't require taking on leadership positions.

I'm totally with you, even solo, I'm going to throw a laptop or two at the guy and rush him. That said, I'm not sure that people travelling with families is the main use for air transport. For flights local to the west coast, my totally un-scientific sample-set (roughly 50 flights per year) would indicate that most of the person-miles flown are solo travelers.

I dunno. I drove the wrong way up a one way, slid to a stop, hopped out of my car, and wrestled a bike thief to the ground today, all because I saw a guy in bike clothes yelling "stop that guy!" Only later, when I was telling my wife about it, did it occur to me that there was a fair bit of risk involved.

No doubt there are at least a few dudes on that plane who watched Bourne with a magazine and want to see if it works against a knife. It won't be box-cutters that take a plane ever again.

I give an attacker about 15-30 seconds of confusion before it's game over. Taking a full 737? I'd wager 8-15 people would be required. The era of low-effort hijacking is over.

I'm pretty sure that my MacBook Air 13" will do some damage if thrown, and I've been really looking for an excuse to get a Retina...

That is true. People should feel free to speak with police, but they should also feel free not to.

I have a video of the person who broke into and vandalized six cars (including mine), with the perpetrator clearly looking at the camera from three feet. It's a straightforward way to identify him. When I handed this video to the police, they said. "eh. We may look at it," and took off.

So, yeah, your chances of getting your car back are pretty much the same either way. The police are far too busy between violent crimes and issuing parking tickets to deal with property crime.

It's like when you trade your old Civic in for a new Civic and discover that they've made it a little bit worse.

Oh.. Hey!

Well, rich-er, but if we keep this up, only the rich will have property. Problem solved.

Please, please, please, please, please let the portal gun exist in multi-player, except you only control one side of the portal. Holding control of one half is exclusive to holding control of the other. Comedy effin' gold.

I saw a guy file a formal grievance this weekend (early voting) because someone at the polling place was taking photos of people within 100 feet of the polling place (really, within five feet). It turns out he was just taking pictures of his kid's first time voting, but it took all of a minute for cops to come, get his info, and ask him to leave.

We have laws against activities that we know have been used to a large degree to corrupt the voting process. I actually believe in large-scale absentee voting (and I've signed up for permanent absentee voting), but I can see where people would have legitimate concerns about the risks. I just think that the benefits wildly outweigh the risks.

I think the argument is that it *could* happen. Historically, electioneering, intimidation, and watchful-eye forced voting have happened. They just haven't happened recently.

I think that the strongest argument is typically vote selling. As you say, absentee voting breaks this anyway.