Simply because something is endemic and pervasive in a society, does not make it a right. Cheating is dishonest, pure and simple - there is no good way to rationalize it. Cheating in an exam means that you either did not take the time or care enough to understand the material. If I were an employer, I would be wary of hiring someone so unscrupulous.

From what I gather, Obama supports full on regulation. A hybrid or half-assed system would cause me to agree with you 100%.

I'm not for more regulation but Big Telecom is out to screw us all. I thought market forces might correct the action but because it is an oligarchy with no real competition, Obama has my support 110% on this one. It should be regulated and net neutrality should be enforced! If Obama can break the telecom thumb screws on the American people, he's achieved a lot. Especially when big telecom calls 50Mbps up and down fast. I've got hot news, Japan and the UK have 1GB fbre to the home for less than what TWC, Comcast, Charter, et al.

The media conveniently leaves certain things out of its reports. The use of these tracking devices are disclosed in the terms and conditions that people sign without reading. Honestly, this a good use of technology to give people who have fallen on hard times, access to a car. Should we pass a law simply because people will sign a document without reading it?

It's spectacles like this which have the potential to harm or kill an animal for the sake of entertainment that makes me side with PETA on occasion. Otherwise PETA is too radical for me. There is no science in this.

I do shift work here and there and I certainly don't notice my mind dulling. I work actively to keep sharp and continue to learn. Those who stop wanting to use the noodle God gave them, might very well lose cognitive ability.

I think daylight savings time should be abolished. It's an anachronism from the days when America was mostly an agrarian society. Now we justify it so that kids have more light for when they wait for the school bus. We justify it in the name of safety. I loved not having to deal with daylight savings time when living in Arizona.

i have to give Tim Cook a lot of credit for the courage it took for him to publicly admit to being gay in a culture still not completely willing to accept gays. Especially since he is at the helm of a very high profile company and it provides an interesting counterpoint to Chick-Fil-A's CEO's anti-gay sentiments.

Religion is the opiate of the masses - Karl Marx

As an avid OpenBSD user and fan, this puzzle me because it would seem like a giant step backwards. Yes, loadable kernel modules do weaken the security some but it makes adding hardware drivers difficult. I really like OpenBSD as the OS does so many things very well but the team members are far from fallible. The community isn't as supportive and tends to be very exclusive, responding with RTFM sometimes a little too often. I can understand RTFM, but I cannot understand being told to read when I've read it already and I'm still unclear.

The 50.00 plan throttles after 3GB. MetroPCS has one for 60.00 per month inclusive of taxes and fees and is truly unlimited.

That would probably the best way to do it. Another option, depending upon where you live, would be to go with MetroPCS or T-Mobile and buy a phablet for your grandmother. If you went with MetroPCS and the 499.00 Galaxy Mega, your grandmother would have truly unlimited data for 60.00 per month.

I read about this on CNN and just about had an asthma attack from laughing. You know this was a distinctly American joke because it was misspelled - it should've been spelled as 'Al Qaida Free Terrorist WiFi Network.' That's what made me even laugh harder. People are living life with their assholes puckered. I'm sorry to have to put it that way but it's true that Americans are living in a constant state of fear. If it isn't terrorism, it's Ebola, if it isn't Ebola, it's the weather. Good gravy people, the sooner you get that life constantly changes and is impermanent, the better you'll be able to deal with it.

That it never happens! And I admit, the reasons are entirely selfish. I drive a truck for a living so I'd rather not lose that livelihood. I can, however, see a place for adding automation in the safety area like automatic braking if following distance is too close and even maybe a limited autopilot feature that would still require a human being to be sitting in the driver's seat. I guess I need to face the reality that just about anything can become automated and I'm sure my employer has one keen eye cocked towards the progress in automation. I left IT for the love of the open road. Part of me understands why some companies might really want the automation because truckers are a notoriously difficult lot to deal with - basically macho juvenile adults. I'm sure drivers are the bane of the transportation company's existence. Many drivers have an undeserved sense of entitlement, make demands, and are often rude towards the office staff. Little do those guys know they are basically going to "demand" themselves out of a job because don't think for a New York minute that the big boys like Werner and Swift aren't making keen investments in automation.

How people hold on to old fashioned, outmoded, and completely disproved ideas. I thought the last of the major Creationism crap happened in the 1920s. Apparently, the bible thumpers don't quit easily. The definition of stupidity is repeating the same thing over and over despite being wrong.