The BOTANY BAY?!?!?!

"AND there's a call for people to be part of the first group to create an intergalactic colony. You would be in suspended animation while the ship would travel near maximum warp and should reach Andromeda in about 75 years. Would you be interested?"

I also didn't want to pay for your locale's use of the Federal resources for law enforcement, military forts, and promoting the general welfare of your locale. Really, where does our Federal Government get this idea that they have to fund these things?

Then why not have a warning stating so when you connect to the domain instead of the user guessing what you are actually doing?

This is why the kid blew the whistle on the Root CA. You, the school's network admin, have every right to install Root CAs on every user that connects to your domain provided you tell them you are doing so. The reason the school's network administrator stopped it because it was not disclosed and do so in secret might be a legal violation. I won't be surprised if the school makes a statement later that they will do this and revert back to the way it was as per your argument.

D*MN! I wish we had that law stateside. Over here we are setting fire to the internet, the very thing we created, while the government vaccums up every piece of data and metadata and storing it for a later date. I can't help but think those in power here are interested in controlling the masses and blackmailing anyone that threatens that in the future if we, the people, become too dangerous for them.

I blame the Yankees that moved to New Amsterdam for that. The Dutch who settled there then to spell lots of words with "ij" in them. When written in longhand it looks like a "y" to us Yanks. Not knowing any better, being Yankees (from the Dutch insult meaning "Cheese Head", which many of us were), we started to use the strange "y" spellings here and it became part of standard Colonial English. Once a standard is set, even such a stupid standard, it is d*mn difficult to change it.

Here is an example. Remember the 640kb limit of DOS? Yet another stupid standard that plagued PCs for over 12 years, which in computer time is an eon and it could not be changed without killing DOS for good.

Sometimes the health of the individuals has no effect, or an inverse effect, on the survivability of the flu. Case in point, the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more healthy young men than any other demographic. The healthy older people didn't generally get as sick and the small children seem to be made to survive fevers high enough to kill adults.

I had dealt with a "creative" person and the problem was her attitude was "you are doing everything wrong, adopt my idea now". In reality we were actually doing things the way we are doing them for a reason. We did adopt some of her ideas after refining them to do what was needed but at a "slow" pace. Anybody that cannot think through a new idea first and then show us why this new idea works better will not be listened to.

Actually I can't think of an engineering reason not to have flying cars. The biggest problems are making them affordable and make them auto-pilot themselves. You really, really don't want the average driver to actually fly cars or have the owner make 10 years worth of payments on it. The best hope now is an automatic piloted flying cars like the Terrafugia TF-X.

I hope his lawyer is able to appeal the case if this search warrant stands because any conviction would be fruit of a violation of the 4th Amendment.

Once again, capability does not equal intent nor action. If it did none of the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights could be enforced and the US government would have the right to imprison everyone in the country because everyone knows how to use a rock to smash things, just like a Brazil Nut or Abel's head.

What gets me is that the US really doesn't really need Saudi oil as much as we did 30 years ago. We still buy it because it is "cheap". If we really wanted to we could get most of our oil shortfall from Canada and Mexico at a slightly higher price and we could use the Alaskan oil instead of selling it.

Do we really want to endorse this "barbaric" behavior against women in Saudi Arabia by buying as much of their oil as we do today so that we can save a mere 10 to 15 cents a gallon?

I am not a lawyer, but I know lying to the police is a crime in many of our states and in Federal law. Even telling the truth and misremebering things is considered a lie to the police, but our police can lie about anything and everything. In the states you should NEVER EVER lie to the police since that is a potentially punishable crime and will make it likely that you will be considered guilty of "something" by the police and the Prosecutor . That is why the advice is to answer no questions about a case until you talk to a lawyer is very sound.

And the out of context example of "he never liked the guy" is a valid example. I have seen it where the police were under pressure to find someone, anyone, to arrest for a crime, particularly a murder, then make up....er....find evidence against him, and then have the Prosecutor ramrod it through a trial since that DA is under the pressure to convict someone, anyone, of the crime. If anyone had witnessed the trial of the West Memphis 3 back in '93-'94, you know what I am talking about. The justice system, in some places in the states, is very broken indeed.

Oversight will not be enough to prevent the great reduction of genetic diversity since there will be an overwhelming demand for genetic engineering your children and choosing the same list of traits that everyone else will want. In fact we are now in a time when genetic diversity in world has been increasing since the invention of the locomotive train. When a species increases their genetic diversity they become more resistant to extinction while the opposite increases the risk of extinction. When genetic diversity is killed off one disease may kill off the entire species of man.

The wonderful world of GATTACA is coming. For those that didn't see the movie this is the future where those people that are conceived naturally will be the new underclass and the test tube babies will be the new professional class. Your new resume is nothing more than a DNA sample and based off of the traits you were engineered for determines your line of work. Your parents will chose your profession type for you and you will be engineered with those traits that will be an asset to that kind of profession type. Employment laws, as they are partially enforced now, will not even put a dent in genetic discrimination that will be rampant in society. People like me, with genes for immune systems problems and moderate risk for heart attacks, will not be employable except for low-wage menial jobs. In fact almost none of us will be employable in middle class jobs nor will any bank loan money for your to start a business.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I see lots of billable hours in the future for fixing the coming mess.