the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. As long as they kiss the ring and swear fealty to WikiMedia.

Honestly, is anyone surprised? I guess the only wrinkle I can see is the division in the ranks of the fascist editor cabal.

Next up, a wikipedia Night of the Long Knives, where dissident editors are "defensively removed" to prevent their "planned putsch."

520 working the Trident program at Faslane alone.

Not thousands, but not mere dozens either. So don't minimize. It's not good for your credibility.

You know what they used to call people who hung around payphones waiting for business phone calls?

Street-level drug dealers.

There's a fabulous business image to project right there.

You can ignore them, in which case you've volunteered for the role of "victim".

You can make them your full-time job, in which case you're no longer a developer.

You should find a good defensive middle ground. At least, some situational awareness. Put your head up and look around. And listen.

I don't do much ebook reading, but I can assure you that since I tend to read books random access*, I can easily get plot sequences out of line.

This is not specifically an ebook problem, if it's any kind of problem at all.

*Yeah. I skip around sometimes. The author is not the boss of me. If I want to jump ahead, cheat and see the ending early, whatever... that's how I read it.

Did this solar-thermal power plan happen to be called HELIOS One?

"I donâ(TM)t want any of our employees to feel that pressure to go through and sellâ¦or [strong]feel[/strong] like theyâ(TM)re going to get fired," Tom Karinshak, Comcastâ(TM)s senior vice president of customer experience, tells The Verge. "Thatâ(TM)s not good for us."

We don't want our employees to "feel" like they'll be fired if they don't upsell aggressively. We want them to know it, be sure of it, fear it to the core of their beings. "Feeling" isn't sure enough. We want bone-deep certainty and visceral dread. We want our employees to completely understand that not selling in every breath and every moment of interaction with a customer is high treason, malfeasance, and heresy, and such dereliction of sacred duty will be treated with appropriate harshness.

More to the point, dead former customers can't seek arbitration. So a sufficiently failed roof (i.e., lethally collapsed) is a guaranteed win for the roofer.

Every system is gamed. The system described by GPP is optimized for the gamer, to the fundamental detriment of anyone "playing fair".

I got burned by them too but there's always hippie once a sensible company takes over.

Dude, I think your autocorrect is baked.

That said, knowing AMD, they'd find a way to accidentally combine the worst parts of all of the involved parties' contributions.

The 14th Amendment explicitly extends Constitutional Due Process (4th Amendment) to all states.

Only a shill or a moron would claim that incorporation to the states doesn't extend to any sub-state legal jurisdictional level, including piss-ant "municipalities".

Gotcha.

Pros: Easier to identify astroturfers/shills.

Counter Con: What makes you think the rules will be applied to corporate persons or political entities?(who are the drivers behind most astroturfing.)

The rules apply to the little people, and if you judge the acceptability of a curtailment of freedom on the basis of the fairness of its application, you're judging falsely.

Yea, what you say is true, but it really doesn't make good news to talk about things that way. At least until somebody actually does it, then we get weeks of wall to wall "breaking news" and "Alert" coverage and the hosts of MSNBC will pontificate about how we should have known this was going to happen and stopped it.

If your point is that the talking heads always talk about everything but the threat which will actually materialize, true. Not a deep insight, but true.

OMG ROBOT BOMB CARZ is what's playing up on stage on tonight's episode of Security Masterpiece Theatre.

Quadcopter grenade bombers is what will actually happen. Unless it's something even more lo-tek, like moar pressure cookers.