You're half right.

I think it is about security theater...where the passengers are the actors and the TSA are entertained.

Well, if the customer read their contracts, they could get out of it when the company changed it because it is a significant change. That is to say, if a company decides to change the terms of the contract, I don't have to agree and I'm no longer locked into the 2 year agreement. My friend did that last year with Sprint because they were going to charge $0.70/month (or some other bogus amount). He then sold his (subsidized) Palm Pre on eBay and bought a Droid through a different carrier.

If we could draw power from PETA ("ethical treatment") members, I'm all for it. If it is the "eating tasty animals" people, then of course they are going to have a cow. Beef, it's what's for dinner, but eel is pretty tasty too. You won't see them protesting this event though.

Well, I think she did realize the money was in being a commentator. That may be the largest reason she gave up the governorship. I'm sure some of her faux pas are legitimate, but I wonder if some are just a type of showmanship. She can run for office, but she won't want to win. If she runs and fails, she may continue to ride the gravy train by showing all the questionable things the winner did. Limbaugh and Beck took years to build their audiences. She was an overnight sensation by running for office and not making it.

If people were honest they would have no friends and marriage would never happen.

If a man were married to a woman for say 5 years, one day she says, "do I look fat in this dress?" No wise man is going to say yes. Is a 10lbs gain over the winter really worth a huge fight and maybe half your bank account? No. Instead, you find a tactful way of avoiding the question (there is none, a pleading of the fifth is admitting the fact in this case), or answering with a lie. Instead, you look at all the surrounding facts, and choose to avoid the argument or set the building aflame. Even in a hell of a marriage, you're probably looking to minimize casualties.

So, if most people cannot tell their spouse the truth, what makes you think nations can?

In approximately half the Presidential elections I have voted, I voted 3rd party. None of those came even close. None of those received more than 5% of the vote. I went so far as to convince others to vote for the same 3rd party candidate (to the best of my limited ability). It made no noticeable impact. I don't like my current governor. During the primaries, I voted for a different party candidate. I found 2 others who voted for every candidate I wrote down, and I spoke to many others about the validity of the chosen gubernatorial candidate. It made no difference. I live in a single party state, and the winning candidate seems to always be known months in advance of any election. I vote every election, but I'm starting to think it's like voting in Iran. Choice is an illusion, everyone can vote for the same illusionary candidate, but the winner is already chosen regardless of the vote.

As a matter fact, yes. There is a blizzard warning in my area right now. Fortunately (or not), I'm at work instead of on the highway with those semis.

I don't use the CD Changer. I sing. I don't have a GPS system because I know where I'm at and where I'm going before I leave the house. If I don't know where I'm going, then I don't want to know. I don't watch DVD's while driving, the mountains, stars, and bad drivers are entertaining enough. All this stuff works whether it is my car, a friends car, or a rental car. It also works when I'm not in a car, but I don't get to watch the bad drivers. Why would I want to pay for something like that if it's bolted into a car? I'd be dead since they would likely bolt by larynx first, and I'd bleed to death. So many of the previous generations of entertainment are still viable, but only if your not ADHD.

And threatening the kids to turn around while eating his Quadruple Whopper during whiteout conditions in a snow storm tailgating a semi looking for the next opportunity to pass.

All those were cause by Slashdot? Wow! I am impressed at the power of Slashdot and its ability to travel backwards through time. Now, that is what we should be calling the Slashdot effect. I could have sworn problems with "loose" and "opps" existed before Slashdot (likely the others as well).

Are you sure you are not just blaming Slashdot for all the language woes like the sitting President is at fault for all the country's woes? Personally, I think the problem is with the written language and the inconsistency of the rules.

Go ahead and blame Slashdot; I'm going to blame the nature of language itself. Your Anglo ancestors, Germanic Ancestors, Indo-European Ancestors, and the like would all assure you, that you are a demonstration of the continued degradation of the language. Most of them couldn't understand a word you are saying anymore than they could a "hood-rat".

Oh for a mod point. I've come to look at the election process as voting for Coke or Pepsi when all I want is a glass of water. Transparent and no artificial additives.

Your internal systems need to be on their own network as others have said. Otherwise, you'll be owned. However, if you have a need to share data "publicly", you can create a data diode to a public server. It involves either a very expensive piece of hardware, or soldering a switch so there is no way to communicate to the main plant computer. Then the plant server communicates to the public server via UDP, and you can use OPC (or whatever you like) to retrieve data. If you have some idiot that wants to control stuff from home, follow the Republican Motto: Just say no.

Because textbooks can be great outside of the classroom, or supplement the instructors incompetence. Not every instructor is really capable of teaching. Plus, I've used several of my text books well after college. Sometimes as a tool to relearn what I once knew (it's much quicker with material I learned from the first time), sometimes as a tool to teach others with. I've also bought textbooks for classes I never attended, but wanted to learn the information. No, I think textbooks are nice. An e-book would be nice too (provided I could put notes in the margins). The only disadvantage of a textbook is the cost, and the silly rev updates to force students to buy a new copy.

Are you sure? Dell, New Egg and many others still seems to sell it. I'm not sure why it isn't dead yet, but it should be. It's like the guy in Monty Python's Holy Grail, "I'm not dead yet."

The article isn't asking about full replacement, it is asking about consumer replacement. Technically, tape isn't dead yet, but it is in the eyes of the consumer. I think too many on here look at their usage and generalize to everyone. I know I've done that on occasion. As an example though, I bought a netbook last week as a supplement to my desktop. Years ago, I never would have bought a notebook because they didn't have enough power to do anything, and certainly not everything I wanted them to do. Well, my netbook certainly cannot do everything I need it to do, but it does 80% of my everyday needs, and everything a normal person would do. So, the question becomes, are SSD's sufficient for most people's needs? I think the answer is quickly becoming yes. When there are 256GB SSD's that are near the $100 mark, I'd say most consumers will switch (during their next upgrade cycle) and never look back. They have enough life expectancy for normal users, and they extend battery life which is more important to Joe user anyway.