not like always, just 10 years ago it was 2 days.

Fingerprints should not be used for biometrics. Period.

Using fingerprints and allowing a third-party to have access to that registration data and tracking information is unacceptable. Once you give this data to the government or big business, it will NEVER be erased or restricted, regardless of claims or laws- it will go into huge databases and shared between entities and agencies and used however they want for as long as they want.

There is only one safer and practical biometric I know of- that is deep vein palm scan. That registration data cannot be readily abused. It can't be latently collected like DNA, fingerprints, and face recognition can. You have to know you are registering/enrolling when it happens. You don't leave evidence of it all over the place. When you go to use it, you know you are using it every time. And on top of all that, it is accurate, fast, reliable, unchanging, live-sensing, and cheap. If you must participate in a biometric, this is the one you should insist on using.

Example: http://www.m2sys.com/palm-vein...

This technology could be put in portable devices like phones by simply including an IR camera. It won't be as fast/small/close as using fingerprints, so it won't be as convenient. But safety, privacy, and security are diametrically opposed to convenience.... it is worth it.

>"Let's step back and look at the available browsers, shall we?"

And "available" depends on your OS. IE and Safari are not an option under Linux (not that we would use either if they were). Opera really is a joke still. So that leaves the anti-friendly spyware called Chrome or the bloated Firefox from your list. There are some other piddly forks of Firefox, and a few obscure webkit browsers, but from my experience none of them are stable or great.

Brilliant! You're arguing to reinstate the bans against interracial marriage.

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>" they'll be asked to make Yahoo their default search engine on Chrome (and Internet Explorer, for what it's worth)"

I guess that means Firefox is the best choice... yet again!

This is like people who claim they have ESP and magical abilities. If there were even ONE legitimate case, they could simply walk into a casino and repeatedly win multi-million dollar wins until every casino on the planet bans them.

All it takes is ONE "electrosensitive" who can consistently answer yes/no to whether an antenna is broadcasting. Much like ESP and other supernatural abilities, so far they do not exist.

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>"We are a tired, stressed and overworked nation

Part of the reason is the low number of people actually working full time... and they have to pay the taxes to cover all those who don't, and those who don't earn enough to cover their cost to society, and the rich who seem to have the means to protect their income.

Oh yeah, let's just throw some more on the national debt to cover it, raise the minimum wage, and start up some more socialized programs and entitlements, that will fix it....

Disassemble PS4 (Just in case you get one): https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...

Disassemble PS3 slim: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...
Disassemble PS3 fat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Quite ignorant.

Agreed, we could make hundreds of different combinations of acronyms for different stuff! But I will say, your "FATAPJ" stack is a little hard to pronounce.... thus, you should change some components as soon as possible, preferably with another vowel near the end :)

Never heard of "MEAN" before now, but that doesn't align with the term "LAMP" which describes the entire server/platform. "LAMP" includes the operating system (Linux) and web server (Apache) in the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

While MEAN does not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So would it be "LAMEAN" perhaps? :)

eh, it depends. It's an avenue of art, so you could compare it to graffiti or charcoal drawings.
Sure, there are at least 70% of them that are basically warpaint in another form, 20% that resemble something more than warpaint but are forgettable, then there are the 10% that are basically the persons inner being personified as art outside.

"No, honest officer, I wasn't yelling. I'm an ex-COBOL programmer."

>"Palm scanning? Jesus. It's bad enough to have the little germ factories all touching the same scanner with one finger. Having them put their whole hand (that they just took out of god knows what mess or bodily cavity)? Scary thought."

It is not the whole hand, just palm. The fingers don't touch anything. So this actually much less likely to spread germs than fingerprint scanners.

Kids have little to no understanding or appreciation of hygiene, anyway. You could keep their fingers off the device, even wipe the device and their hands with cleaner first, and it will make no difference. The moment they leave the cafeteria and go to the bathroom, they will place their entire hand on a push plate, door knob, flush lever or whatever and then stick their fingers all over their face, mouth, nose, eyes, floor, etc. Hand washing, if done at all, will be done improperly, infrequently, and they will still touch SOMETHING on their way out, re-contaminating them.