I want to not say that this is junk. I really want to. I mean, maybe *someday* something cool will come out of this project.

But this car isn't it. See, the thing is, actually flying a plane can easily get many orders of magnitude more difficult than driving a car. Why? Well, because if you mess up while driving a car, cliffs notwithstanding, all of the things you might crash into are generally *in front* of you. With a plane, they could easily be above or below you. Oh yes, and there's *always* the ground.

If you run out of gas in a car, you're screwed, but you will probably be ok with walking. If you run out of gas in a plane, you're really, *really* screwed.

Before any pilot takes a plane into the air, they are expected to complete a pre-flight check list of the plane to mitigate the chance of crashing in a fire-y ball of death. That usually doesn't happen with cars.

Still, if enough people get these things, then maybe we'll create an auto-fly system like in Back to the Future 2. That was pretty cool.

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Furry cows moo and decompress.

Yes, in general, if you compromise one password, you might be compromising them all. In this specific case however, the "hacker" in question never got the passwords himself. He got the password-reset tool to help out a user who has forgotten their password. So that's one happy out of the whole thing--there was a good security practice there that actual passwords are a little harder to get at than that.

I know that Malware is a superset of computer viruses, but most virus scanners are more like malware scanners these days. I understand that the spirit of the challenge is to reverse engineer code that malware checkers currently don't catch, but isn't this a little like giving away for free that which some company down the street is charging money for? Maybe I'm still not getting it.

IMHO, you should go for distilling alcohol instead. It's either legal or closer to legal.

The concept of CDS starts out as insurance, sure. But since third parties that have nonthing to lose if the default should occur can also take out "policies" and since there is no regulation requiring that the agency selling the CDS "insurance" actually have the assets on hand to pay-up should the potential defaulter default... well, actually it turns out that CDSes are *a lot* different than insurance. In fact, CDSes are pretty damn stupid (read: financially risky and dangerous). I'm sure it all seemed like a good idea at the time though.

Stupid, stupid news. Wish people (as a collective whole) would think for themselves a bit.

They do. It's called "the News". I mean, you're asking people to think for themselves "collectively" and "as a whole". You're acting as if "the news" as-a-whole is something separate and apart from the people. It isn't. "the news" is merely the voice through which "the people" talk to themselves.

Now, at a time like this, it might actually be a good thing for the news not to be the true voice of the people. It might actually be a good thing if the very few elite that have more influence over the news than they rightly ought to, to put that influence to good use by slowly, slowly steering the news coverage away from the dire economic predictions into the it-might-not-suck-so-bad economic predictions.

Well... at least she's better than Katz...

I don't think you fixed it, but you did manage to bundle all the complaints into a *family* that succinctly describes *all* those complaints. It's like grouping y=3x + 12, y=(5/11)x - 1 y=(1/4)x + 9, and y=x into the general family y=(m)x + b.

Thanks for that.

I have been out of the loop for some time now. What tune should this be sung to?