> Pursuing an attacker once the threat to yourself and family is clearly over is no longer self-defence.

Right, because having been chased once, criminals immediately become law-abiding citizens. No chance at all that they guy was running away to get some more buddies to come back and finish the job. I have no problem at all with someone who wants to ensure that crooks are available for the police to deal with.

Oh dear, a criminal getting a "permanent injury" from a victim. My heart is bleeding for him. Dude: you break the law, you're taking a chance. You'll get NO SYMPATHY if someone strikes back.

I assume the case in question is this one: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timcollard/100020129/the-criminal-justice-system-is-just-not-cricket/

Don't know about you, but the last line makes a lot of sense to me.

There is some truth to your statement. In fact capitalism is regulated to mitigate it's harmful effects somewhat. Runaway capitalism can be as bad as runaway socialism. Both systems have their good and bad sides.

That's great that they can contend with our F-22. But what happens when we have a few dozen pilots each remotely commanding a Squadron of UAV?

Honestly, I don't know why people waste their time trying to catch up with something that's already totally outdated.

What's important is simply following the steps outlined by where ever you live. Laws vary from state to state. Some require parents to have certain certifications, others college degrees, others a certain number of college credit hours without a degree requirement, or like my parents had to do, working with a supervisory teacher. Many states require some kind of registration regardless of the option you choose. If you skip steps and don't comply with guidelines, then of course colleges/universities/employers are going to look at you suspiciously if they look at you at all, but once again, that's what you get with individual responsibility. It's up to parents to get it right, just as it's up to them to figure out their taxes if they do them instead of taking them to a tax preparer. Exactly the same principle, unfortunately failure to dot i's and cross t's with the responsibility of homeschooling more often becomes the problem of the kids than the parents.

Prison is not supposed to be a deterant or punishment. It's supposed to be for protection (of people outside) and reform.

However you accopmlish those two goals is good with me, just so long as it gets done. If D&D helps them become a law-abiding and safe citizen, then I'm all for it. Of course if the inverse is true, I am equally against it.

Let me guess, you're an overworked, underpaid, IT worker for a very small company. And with thinking like 'screw the policy and backups, it's good enough' that's the only place you'll ever be.

If you honestly work at a business where the boss both ignores your expert opinion and refuses to acknowledge their contempt for business continuity planning, you should probably be looking for employment elsewhere. You're never going anywhere in that business environment, and the business itself is likely never going anywhere positive either. Unemployment sucks (and I've been there), but a dead-end job can be worse (stress in the short-term, and employability in the long term).

This is only true if the "hacker" knows that you use this pattern. Without knowing this, they still have to try all the possibilities in the key space.

I'm IT at my company. Two years ago a non-technical owner read an article about security where the article suggested passwords should be changed every other week in high security environments. We deal with sensitive data, so the owner thought this would be a good idea. It took quite a bit of convincing to get that idea out of his head, but you can imagine the results. Every's password would eventually be [favorte word][month][1-2] or similar.

We change passwords every 90 days as it is and I know of a user who was using [season][month #][day #], so something like "winter0121".

It's funny how much good advice there is on the Internet for passwords, and how often everyone ignores it.

I like when I can make up my own security questions. I usually use some strange word or phrase, of itself not even a question, which has some meaning to me. When setting up a shopping registry at a national chain store I used the password hint "color her"; I got a weird look from the clerk, but I still know exactly what that means.

The problem with those security questions though, is that I'll bet more than 99% of people answer honestly. And without considering who they're giving out potentially personal information to. Things like your place of birth, mother's maiden name, etc are all very useful to identity thieves and the like.

It also depends on the name itself. When my wife graduated from college I told her she had to dump her Giggle4U###@aol.com address because it was horribly unprofessional. Now it's mostly her name @aol.com; she adamantly refuses to use "my" domain.

I've looked through resume's before. First thing I look for is a professional polish (including your e-mail address or other obvious dumbass-flags; if you can't make a resume look professional, you're never getting hired by me); then I look for 'experience' related stuff. I'm sure most employers are similar.

Polarized stereographic theaters require an expensive silver based paint to be used for the screen. Normal projectors can be used, but have to have polarization filters fitted to them at the proper angles (and of course you need two separate projects). The screen is usually the largest cost.

Correct. When you're picking the place to put your "extra" money it should always go to the account with the highest interest rate (for most people that's loans; like credit cards, student loads, car loans, and mortgages).

Wait a minute.. You propose that releasing source code and buying a license from a monopoly are two punishments on the exact same level?

I'll tell you what, since you obviously (and I'll get a jury to agree) infringed on my copyright of the number #30649052, you need to buy Windows Server 2008 DataCenter licenses for all of your home computers, and all of your friends, relatives, etc. Oh, and you don't actually get to keep any of that software you just bought. Does that sound fair?

They're not asking for the MTV version of NASA. It simply would be nice to get a little mix going. Sure, sometimes you want to see every detail of how they drove into a field an picked up 3 cosmonauts for hours on end. Other times it might be nice if they cut it down to the technically interesting parts. There is a happy medium in between the two extremes you have proposed. One where the die-hards still get their detail fix; and the rest of us intellectuals can learn something without being bored to tears. You are right that it we're looking for the 10 second version at a 2nd grade reading level we need to flip over to CNN.