They'd also do well by dropping the one and two dollar bills, replacing them with coins; the currency has devalued so much, it's not worth keeping the low value notes as notes. You could also make a case for ditching the penny, to boot.

What are you? Some kind of closet Canadian?

While ESRB ratings and other warnings about violent games for kids have good reason to exist, many parents still ignore them, aren't aware to them, or simply don't care about their warnings

"Many parents still ignore them", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.

"or simply don't care about their warnings", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.

"aren't aware to them", which is a publicity issue for the ESRB and not the fault of the parents -- assuming for a moment that anything more than a statistically insignificant number of people aren't aware of them.

The ESRB warning are there so that parents can make decisions about their own children themselves. That their decisions differ from yours isn't a failing of the warnings. It's a failure of you for wanting to control other people's lives.

So how long until this technology can be used to build the flying car I've been promised for several decades?

So how long until I can use this technology to finally get my flaying car?

Maybe not In the video; the guy using the plastic strip to trick the device is holding the plastic strip over the same finger that can legitimately unlock the device.

Go re-watch the video and pay attention this time... He used his index finger to lock the phone and his middle finger to unlock it using the "plastic strip".

Don't we also have a duty to preserve a world free from flying killer robots for our children?

Isn't it the killing that's the terrible thing, not the method that's used? This reminds me of the stupidity of classifying some crimes as "hate crimes", as if it's worse that someone gets beat up because they're gay than if they get beat up because they're walking down the wrong street.

...maybe put that brainpower into solving the actual global problem, rather than finding a bandaid solution to the local symptom....

Given that solving the global problem would pretty much require us to stop all fossil fuel use, stop all food-animal production, stop all rain-forest destruction and start an effective process of eliminating termites (they are huge methane producers) I think we can pretty much rule out being able to solve the global problem.

Since the current plans to "deal with" global warming are about slowing the affects of global warming not stopping or reversing it -- so your town won't be under water for seventy years instead of fifty -- the rational course of action is to start dealing with the current and upcoming effects.

To use a non-automotive analogy, global warming is like a huge snowball rolling down a snowy hillside. You can waste a bunch of time fruitlessly trying to stop it or slow it down but you'd be better off beating it down the hill and moving anything it's going to hit out of its way.

This whining gets a little old. People cry that "the bankers" (or "banksters" in your case) should go to jail but yet never seem to be able to cite specifics. That to me says you don't actually know of any laws broken, you are just mad and think that you're angry should be reason enough to convict someone.

How about we start with the F'ing bankers who were laundering billions but didn't get charged with any criminal activity and their organization only got a token fine because it would be "bad for the economy" if they were held responsible for their criminal activity.

Then we could go after the F'ing bankers that took money from congress with the promise that they would re-start lending to the "little guy" and instead used it to buy up their competition and pay executive bonuses.

If you don't think most bankers (i.e. top executives at the large banks) should be in jail you haven't been paying attention.

This is all about setting up a system to charge for access to 'whois' information. Phrases like "authorizing 'requestors'" is code for charging users.

You have the right to free speech, but not the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room.

Actually you do have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room. You just can't use the first amendment to avoid prosecution for starting a riot. In other words, you have the right to act but you are also responsible for your actions.

There is no need for such a law, all they have to do is install a key logger on the company's computers (it's their computer they can do that) and they'll have the employee's facebook password before lunch.

"By using DHS as the middleman, the Obama administration hopes to bring the formidable overseas intelligence-gathering of the NSA closer to ordinary U.S. residents without triggering an outcry from privacy advocates who have long been leery of the spy agency's eavesdropping."

Translation: People don't fear the DHS as much as they fear the NSA, this should fix that.

Wait, what? A web site can secretly access my browser history? Why does this need the FTC need to get involved, shouldn't "we" stop them by fixing the browsers?

What's NASA trying to hide? It looks to me like they're a bunch of terrorists...

They are only asking for your email address so that they can sell it to spammers and spam you themselves.

Use http://www.mailinator.com/ and thwart their evil plans...