Once again, Onion & friends ahead of the news curve.

Seems Colon Powell presented evidence (cough) the hard way.

the munitions appeared to have been "designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies".

That does it! Invade the USA, those dirty evil doers!.....oh, wait.

"Our snooping feature has revealed to external snoopers that there is a hole in our snooping feature and that allows external snoopers to snoop and know about the existence of our snooping feature".

Don't bother with the class, just read the book, "Distributed Node.JS.AI with Quantum Lambda's and HTML5 Unleashed for Complete Drooling Buzzword-Chasing Idiots"

It's smart and not smart at the same time.

As a former European kid, can I declare Microsoft clueless about coding too?

And:

* User-interface design
* Upgrade migration management
* Customer relations
* Standards compliance
* Packaging design
* Stage dancing
* Chair care

There is more to running a software company than finding inexpensive docile labor.

But then we'd need an army of self-replicating construction robots, which if capable of learning and adapting to construction issues well enough to not foul up, may decide to rid humans, leading to Borg and/or Battlestar Galactica.

the externalities (for CO2) are global, but the governments are local....gets into the very difficult and political world of international trade regulations

Let alone at the federal level inside the USA. It may be why the wealthy owners want more "States Rights": they can dump their problems onto other weaker states.

Why hasn't this been made into a movie already?!?

It's pretty easy, take any existing movie, and about 3/4 the way through it, add a half-second of a loud rumble and swirling dust, and then snip the movie then and there. Done!

Something tells me it won't be a hit, though.

Unless, maybe you do a slow-mo of Jar Jar and Justin Bieber being torn to shreds.

1978:

  password

1983: Rule: Don't use 'password', too common.

  passgas

1990: Rule: Must contain at least one digit

  passgas7

1995: Rule: Must contain mixed case

  Passgas7

1999: Rule: Must contain at least one punctuation character

  Passgas7&

2004: Rule: Must change every 2 months

  Passgas7& ... Passgas8* ... Passgas9( ... Passgas1! ...

2015: Rule: Must be at least 20 characters long

  Passgas711111111111$ ... Passgas177777777777$ ...

2017: Rule: Can't use any patterns guessable by AI

  Oh f$ck it, just hack me already, dammit @666

(Courtesy c2 wiki)

I don't understand why passwords are not stored on a hardware device that limits the frequency of confirmation requests to only what's needed through hardware. If you put the passwords on regular disks, then somebody can copy them and run brute-force guess-A-trons on them.

Have 2 run in parallel so you have a spare.

oh, and 5) more consistent blocking syntax conventions across authors than curly braces because it imposes a certain line spacing that curly braces do not.

Let's punish them by buying their trinkets at Walmart. That'll show 'em!

Indeed. The Chinese Government must have read "How Not to Tick Off a Large City", and did the opposite of the advice. Why would anyone want to go back to being governed by a cheating bully?

(Other than at gun-point, which it may come down to now.)