"The Adwords service was primarily aimed at placing ads next to relevant Google internet search results. But the plaintiffs said Google should have disclosed that ads would also appear in undesirable places such as error pages and undeveloped websites known as parked domains."

When you sign up for adwords, you can choose if you want your ads to appear in (1) search results and/or (2) the google content system (basically blogs and websites that use adsense). When an adsense user (a website owner) gets approved for adsense, they get approved based on one website and can then put adsense ads on any of their sites without needing any further approval. I can see how some people would abuse this and put their ads on garbage pages, but for them it's just a matter of time before someone reports them to Google for a TOS violation (use the little arrow attached to any adsense ad) and gets their account banned.

In short, an advertiser can easily opt to only have its ads appear in search results. If it agrees to have its ads appear on the Google content network, it runs the risk of its ads occasionally showing up on garbage sites. Of course, for most who pay for ads on a per-click basis, this won't have any affect because no one is clicking on the garbage site ads. And before anyone says anything about click fraud, Google is actually pretty aggressive about detecting that and disallowing adsense users from making money on illegitimate clicks.

"Oh, and HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v "DisableOSUpgrade" /t REG_DWORD /d 0x1"

Silly rabbit, the next Windows critical security update will fix that registry error you just created.

In fairness, Star Trek's VGER wasn't evil, or trying to destroy humanity. Its whole motive was to meet with (and merge with) its creator. Also, Star Trek gave us Lt. Data, probably the most positive example of AI ever (inb4 Lore). We were also exposed to positive AIs in Star Wars with R2-D2 and C-3PO. It seems that if the AI is the central focus of the movie/TV show plot, it will be out to destroy humanity, but that stems from the need for a movie to have a conflict to resolve. If the AI isn't the main focus of the film, it seems to get a more balanced or positive treatment. The Alien franchise gave us a nice balanced view, giving us both Ash, a sociopathic corporate drone, and Bishop, a self-sacrificing hero.

will undoubtedly account for 99% of these cases. There are no details in this story about what caused the batteries to explode, but I've read other articles which sometimes shed light on these cases. The guy with the leg burns kept loose batteries in his pocket with keys and coins. Another victim was a brand new vaper using a mech mod (it said he pushed the button on the bottom of the device, a tell-tale sign that it was a mech mod), and it was clear that someone else has prepared his gear and he had no idea what he was doing. In fact, I'd wager that most people with exploding batteries were mech mod users. Why mech mods still exist is beyond me. They have no protective circuitry, so if your build causes too high a draw on the battery, or the device gets stuck in the "on" position, you're going to have a big problem.

The one possibly unavoidable problem with any e-cigarette is counterfeit batteries. If you're trying to be safe and you buy Sony, Samsung or LG batteries, it can be tough to tell if they're genuine or not (I've gotten counterfeits myself through an Amazon third-party seller). If I have any doubts that a battery I'm using isn't genuine, it gets boxed and disposed of immediately. Of course, counterfeit batteries aren't only a problem for vapers, but the proximity of the device to your face will generally cause more damage than for, say, a flashlight user.

I've seen this problem all the time in my civil right practice. Most of the time it's LEOs arresting someone for disorderly conduct without knowing that the First Amendment trumps the state criminal statute in almost all cases except those where the person is practically inciting a riot.

The 1983 in question is 42 U.S.C. 1983. It is the vehicle by which you can sue state and local government officials for Constitutional violations. Federal officials get sued under a Bivens claim, which is named for the first case to recognize such an action.

When a LEO gets sued for false arrest/excessive force, you can bet it is a 1983 case.

I automatically think "Cooley High Law School" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072820/ .

Looks like my knee-jerk reaction isn't too far from the actual academic prowess of this institution.

I easily beat the game without said healer. Hint: use a potion to respec Merill as a full-blown blood mage. Her health never dipped below 50%.

My (biggest) problem with DA2 is that your decisions had no real consequences. It gives the illusion of choice, but then the story ends the same regardless of what you choose. The only thing you have any control over is whether your NPCs live or die.

Also, I can't stand the RPG trend of dragging you into cutscenes at the dumbest/most inconvenient times. For example, you approach the big boss' lair. You get your weapons ready, position party members at the door, have all buffs charged, open the door and . . . *cue the cutscene* you and your party casually stroll up to the big boss, have your dramatic confrontational conversation with him (even though you *know* you're just going to fight, and then . . . *cutscene ends*, and your party is standing in the worst possible place, without weapons drawn, and maybe your buffs have worn off. AAAAAAHHHHH! Also, getting dragged into a cutscene at the end of a fight against a huge number of enemies *before you get the chance to loot*, and having that cutscene take you away from the looting area entirely.

True enough, and the consequences will never be the same. He done goofed.