So, NCIS it is?

So I guess the whole security theater that sprung up after 9/11 is ok? If it only saved the life and virtue of even one....

Child porn, terrorism, or in earlier days communism. I can only hope that one day we'll have some Welch again asking "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Disagreeing with one crime is no excuse for agreeing with another.

Yes, I do expect law enforcement to act within the law. For the very simple reason that if there's some way to rubber stamp a way around it with "serves to protect against child porn/terrorism/organized crime/money laundering/choose the horrible crime of the month", whenever it is convenient, any kind of check that serves to protect you from your law enforcement invading your privacy can as well be abolished. A law that only exists as long as the one limited by its existence allows it to be, if it can be ignored at will by the entity subject to it, is void by definition.

All kids require... what kind of socialist nanny state bull is that?

This is nowhere really news except where it takes a billion years to get anything done in the school system.

That dumb people breed like bacteria? Last time I checked that was still in effect.

If intelligence was hereditary, it should be trivial to point to a family of increasingly intelligent people who should reach their pinnacle about today.

Just after Sarah Palin had me convinced it's some kind of hair growth medium...

So you're ... dirt?

Not unless human has the goal of getting it very far by artificially keeping it alive and multiplying.

Do you think the bacteria producing insulin have any snowball-in-hell chance to survive on their own?

Haven't realized? Are you kidding?

They fully realized it. But they'd be first admitting to eating babies alive before they'd willingly talk about that. And they'll fight tooth and nail against anything that could come close to merging "phone" and "data". The reason is very simple: Phone IS already data to them. But data they can sell very, very, VERY expensively.

Ponder for a moment how much data a voice call is. Realize just how well it can be compressed.
Ponder for a moment how much you pay per minute for cell plans.
Now take a wild guess how expensive a kb of that data is for you.

Multiply by a few thousand and you come close to the real value of "voice data" to your carrier.

There are of course natural entities that are lethal, but they are lethal as a by-product. No parasite, no virus, has the death of its host as its primary goal. Usually, the host dies from the unpleasant side effects of the parasite's primary goal: self preservation and propagation.

If you turn those objectives upside down (i.e. primary goal: Maximum damage, secondary goal: sustain existence) you sure as hell can increase the potential for lethal effects!

Actually drugs would be a lot more desirable without limitations that force people to resort to less and less sensible routes to cook them.

Who said I have to use my body to multiply them?

On a completely unrelated note, I have here a new breath mint you just HAVE to try...

There is exactly one reason why they do that: If they don't, they can kiss the storage business abroad good bye. Nobody would ever even think about touching any of their storage services with a ten foot pole, and, if sufficiently security conscious, contemplate moving away from MS wherever possible. At the very least in the server area, if possible at clients, too.

And I'm not that certain whether companies in the US would agree with it either.