Exactly, that's true of any "fuzzy" system. Fuzzy includes fingerprint readers, retina scanners, voice prints. You name it, it has to allow for a a degree of fuzziness. They make for great Hollywood visuals, but nothing else.

That "article" is an "OMG the Sky Is Falling" opinion piece written by an employee of Rupert Murdoch. Let's take a deep breath and try to be rational.

Remember, the ITU is the organization that has allowed our telephone to seamlessly communicate with any other telephone in the world. They've done that job without any major controversies that I'm aware of. It's true that the bureaucracy of the UN is one of the few bureaucracies that can match that of the US. I'm honestly not sure which would be worse. I feel the UN would be more resilient against the major commercial copyright interests that push SOPA and ACTA and other acronyms I can't remember at the moment. I do worry that UN would be more conciliatory to member states who want to snoop and filter the Internet in violation of human rights.

I see this as a push by dozens of nations (especially China) who perceive that the US has too much control of the Internet and lack faith in the neutrality of the US.

The strength of the Internet is that everything is connected to everything else though commonly accepted protocols. Everyone, including the US and the UN and China and [insert-other-entity-here] would do well to remember that.

It's all UNIX. I roll up MacOSX, iOS, Solaris, and Linux as one big happy UNIX family.

While I'm not discounting the security concerns, we should also recognize that this is self-serving to IBM because it sells IT security consulting services.

Google should charge US$0.99 per take down for "administrative cost recovery" or some other similar reason. It's a price high enough to stop "frivolous" take downs. It's low enough that people who are actually loosing money because of a link should have no qualms about paying.

The 2000 election was where Bush received 50,456,002 votes and Gore received 50,999,897 votes [source Wikipedia]. Bush was able to win because he was able to carry enough states by sufficient margins to achieve 271 electoral college votes which is enough to win. In 2004, Bush won both the popular vote and electoral college vote. Every state has the power to choose its electors as it wishes [US Constitution Article 2, Section 1.] Most (if not all) states choose electors in a winner-take-all fashion based upon popular vote within that state and many states have laws that compel electors to vote for the person they've pledged to vote for.

Of course there are horrible oppressive regimes out there. The depravity they inflict upon their citizens is an abomination to basic human dignities. Iran is a notable and relevant example of such a regime. While the US is scarcely anywhere near as bad as Iran or any of a dozen or more similar regimes, the point that's trying to be made is that liberties and freedoms basic human dignities have been steadily eroding in the name of defending the US from terrorism. Also, there is no sense that anyone in power or "the mainstream" has any interest in reversing the trend.

Why are you trying to bring a well reasoned and nuanced ideas into Slashdot?
While I cannot think of a scenario that would warrant wireless service shutdown I'm sure there are some. I'm also pretty sure that those situations would be severe enough that they should also probably shut down passenger service as well.

Dear Hollywood,
The reason The Avengers succeeded where other movies performed poorly is because it was a special and unique movie. Specifically, it was a good movie that lots of people wanted to see.
Sincerely,
Me.

I also like QLab and use it for live theatre. Thinking off the cuff ... Each playback zone (park region) would be its own cue. QLab can handle multiple cues simultaneously. Set each cue to loop forever and direct each cue to a specific output channel. Cues do not need to be the same length. You'll need a QLab pro audio upgrade and a multi-channel audio interface if you want to stream more than two channels.

Until someone writes an FOSS tool based upon https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/ The really ambitious ones could write a FUSE layer on top of it.

I wholeheartedly agree. The question isn't if a drive is going to go bad, the question is when will a drive go bad. Just accept that the drive will go bad and be prepared for it with redundancy. In my experience, the MTBF has a very high variance. It's either going to fail within four weeks or last more than four years. Keep your eye on the S.M.A.R.T. stats. Reallocation of sectors is a very bad omen of pending drive failure.

One other thing I haven't seen mentioned is the difference between consumer drives and server drives. Consumer drives will go through Herculean efforts to silently recover from media errors. The host computer is often never aware of it. Server drives will report errors back to the host computer sooner with the expectation that RAID subsystems want to know about media problems sooner rather than later.

It's been a while since I've read anything about this, but my sense is that Cutler was quite upset with Ken Olsen who cut the project he was working on at the time. While Cutler could have found work anywhere else in DEC he chose have a chat with Bill Gates. Many have noted over the years that if you take the acronym VMS (an operating system that Cutler contributed to) and shift each letter plus one, you get WNT (Windows NT).

For the most part, yes. Most North American airports require passengers to clear customs of that country before continuing on to any other destinations. Most European airports have quarantine zones. For example, I flew from Toronto to Heathrow to Hannover. At Heathrow, I only had to go through metal detector/x-ray screening but I didn't have to clear UK custom. I only had to clear customs when I arrived in Germany. I suspect this is a leftover from when the Europe was much more separated and required border checks for every country.

As a stereotype, women excel at consensus driven group dynamics. The best female managers I've had were ones who followed their instincts, steered the consensus, and made groups work. Female managers who either trained to be to tried to be more like the stereotypical alpha-male manager who orders from the top down and expects unquestioning obedience have been miserable managers. It's also been my experience that the same is true of male managers.