Cars are potentially much faster than bicycles. In practice, a cyclist may reach typical vehicle speeds for downtown traffic, especially if there is congestion.

Ditto for Canada. I see stuff about this prof, and some stuff about "binary options" and insurance scams.

I'm guessing that it may have less to do with "right to be forgotten" and more that both "will" is a common word, and "broker scam" is close enough that it's getting that instead of "brooker"

Even when I say to only use "Will Brooker" it doesn't come up with this fellow though. Perhaps wherever you've posted such info just isn't somewhere that places high on Goog's search results.

Now *that* would be amusing. Dual-container encrypted volume. The easily cracked volume containing a few years worth of stuff collected from various shock sites.
Heck, no need even for dual encryption. Just make it something with an attention-getting name with an easy password stored in a place that curious inlookers could be easily trolled...

Next time one of those "This is Microsoft, your PC is sending a virus" calls come through, I should share out a VM with one of these and a container marked "banking info 2014" and a password of "12345" :-)

I've got an encrypted volume on my main box that's got stuff I'd rather not my family members/wife/friends get into. It's nothing illegal, and it's not something that would end in a divorce if she did see it, just a collection of stuff I'd rather not share with the world. Since I have people over for LAN parties and share out drives on occasion, making sure such files are in an encrypted container ensure that even if I accidentally gave them access to the wrong place, they won't be snooping around my stuff.

Given the number of personal stuff people accidentally share over P2P networks (e.g. sharing all of "My Documents" for windows users), having stuff in an encrypted file in a safe place isn't a terrible idea. If the police want to see it, bring a properly signed warrant and go ahead. They'll likely be entertained but nothing is going to end me up in a PMITAP.

Really, though, they shouldn't be inviting their *regulators* to anything other than functions related to regulation.

Better make sure your DNS service provider, and domain registrar are similar in "safe" places then...

Except - based on what I've seen on existing flights - the real number was already non-0% anyhow.

I dunno, I've always equated "sport" with some physical activity. Certainly gaming can be a competition, but is it really a sport? Similar I've heard of chess tournaments referred to as competitions rather than as sports.

Actually, if people knew the *true* amount of data many of those companies have they'd likely be appalled, but it's really not that visible. Personally I'm happy for google to know what I'm searching for using their engine, and similarly willing to made a trade-off on facebook status updates etc.
What's not cool - and less obvious - is all the "like" buttons and analytics scripts, apps, etc that are feeding them with people's every little action that brushes upon the online.

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Only well muscled young men with washboard abs and manboob pecs get super powers

I thought the radiation made skinny dorks into super-strong he-men? Or does that only work if it's a bite by an irradiated spider?

If you disparage someone for their religious beliefs, you are a bigot

A lot of people's beliefs are tied to their actions (no matter how contradictory to the actual theology it is). There's nothing wrong with having faith, just when it overrides common sense, facts, etc.
People who believe that the earth is a few thousand years old, that homosexuality is a choice (and a sin), and those that revel in their own ignorance... I'll happily disparage them.

The little old lady - or even the middle-age man - who goes to church to pray for a better world and helps his/her neighbours... nothing to look down upon there.

Well, to be honest, it has gotten (quite a lot) better. Other than the minecraft/Java issue, problems with Pulse are somewhat more rare these days. I think this is mostly due to Pulse being rammed through by Ubuntu etc and thus pulse-compatible applications becoming more the norm.

it's a ticket if

A lot of things have potential tickets, actually having a significant number of them doled out is a different thing. We've laws against driving while using mobile devices. I do see the odd person pulled aside for (what I assume was) this. More often, I see people driving right past cops with phone-to-ear and no consequence. No ticket

Crossing against a signal? About a month ago some guy ran across the road when the cross-traffic had a green. The copy who was proceeding through actually slowed down and nearly stopped so that the guy could (illegally) cross, then proceeded on. No ticket

Cyclists are supposed to either move with traffic, or use designated bike lanes. Plenty of cyclists around here either pass vehicles on the shoulder to bull through intersections, or more commonly just drive on the sidewalk and blow through a crosswalk. I just about smoked one the other day. I can slow down and do a check for pedestrians just fine, but I'm not going to see some cyclist rolling downhill on the opposite sidewalk at high speed before I enter my turn. Bonus points for going sans helmet. Cyclists breaking the law: no ticket

Laws are *useless* unless enforced with some consistency. Even then you'll still have idiots who ignore them and cause accidents (but at least we should throw the book at those). Seriously, you shouldn't need to drive like an inconsiderate prick to get nailed, and even those often get less than they deserve. Plenty of repeat drunk drivers without licenses that should be in *jail* but that usually doesn't happen until somebody dies.

Yeah I'd like to know what this is about too. I don't see anything less functional about the Win8 sound interface compared to previous versions.

It's funny though, I used to *hate* pulseaudio on 'nix. It still gives me grey hairs sometimes with certain software (e.g. Minecraft which won't remap output to an alternate device) but the ability to send particular applications to a specific output/input is awesome. Newer windows at least add the stream/app specific volume control, but I *really* wish that windows had the ability to send output from specific streams to specific devices.