Yep, these super wealthy punks only pay a few hundred thousand a year in taxes. When what they should be paying is a few hundred million. I mean, sheesh, that prick Romney only had to pay 15% on his capital gains and interest income. That only amounted to some bullshit amount of, what, $13million in taxes. One super wealthy dude only had to pay $13 million for the whole year. What kind of BS is that?

NOAA researchers discovered to be former DOJ Prosecutors. Why do we continue to pay for this. Let the sequester happen.

I would ordinarily tend to agree with you but I rather suspect that AI software does already exist. And yes, we humans that game tend to be able to out think the silly AI in our FPS games so it would appear we will maintain an advantage. What tends to be forgotten is the fact that gaming developers tune the AI to be just challenging enough to keep us engaged without it being so overwhelming that we just give up and go play some other game. What if the developers of real-time combat AI do not have that constraint?

At the risk of sounding like Capt Obvious, now would be a good time to change all you account passwords to something much more complex and ensure that none of your accounts share a common password or password theme. Also, if someone is making a run at your online identity, the possibility exists your info has been sold to group/s that will add you to the script for credit and bank attacks. Good to include those accounts (if any) in your password updates. Good luck with this. I recently went through a round or two of something similar and it just plain sucks.

Umm, I thought the AC post was at least on topic since he used the word "too" in the title. Just sayin'.

Just prior to making his speech on live TV, he had recorded an 18 min session in Spanish. I suspect he might have, oh, I don't know, been thirsty.

But, what if I have an honest objection to the proposed actions put forward by the President? Am I simply supposed to just roll over and submit to his will? And will you be willing to do the same should a Republican be elected President next time? No, the American system is designed to limit the amount of power (read: dominance) that any one branch of government may exercise. I didn't want then President Bush to have unlimited authority during his tenure and I don't want that for President Obama either. President Obama is human and thus able to make mistakes. As are you. I suspect that should you go back and read your original comment, you might see the wording needs a little tweaking so that it doesn't come off as a plea for all the rest of us to just shut the fuck up and do what we're told.

After spending over a year on a mission to get my credit report "fixed", I have a number of anecdotal stories regarding the inherent inaccuracy of the reporting that goes into these databases. My credit reports were not that bad but after a review of the report from the top three agencies, I discovered dozens of factually inaccurate items ranging from wrong addresses to poorly formatted history items. My reports contained input from companies I had never done business with and companies that no longer existed. The problem with this is that if they can't be trusted to confirm the proper spelling of your name, how can they be the "authoritative" source for detailed information regarding your trustworthiness.

Because you are not in the military you would not know that a significant part of initial and ongoing training covers being able to distinguish lawful vs unlawful orders and the proper process to follow in the event of the later. We were/are not automatons and mindless robots dutifully following orders. In actual fact, most of my training incorporated the need for me to be able to think for myself. It was one of the motivating factors used to encourage us during the cold war. We were better solders because we could think for ourselves and take direct action based on our own initiative. Not trying to call you out, but it is a somewhat common misconception. Sorry for intruding on the discussion.

Let's see, he was repeatedly blocked from accessing the journals, he actively engaged in circumventing the measures put in place to block his access and then ultimately he broke into the wiring closet of school where he was not a registered student to physically connect into the network he knew he was no longer allowed to use. I'd say that qualifies as a corrupt person for sure. Then he pussed out rather than face the consequences of his actions. And if you really, really believe he would have faced 35 years in jail, you're a dumb ass.

As a former business owner that had to address the risk of materials theft, I support the idea of business owners being allowed to take reasonable measures to prevent this type of loss. Potentially killing the possible drunk homeless guy looking for shelter seems a bit "unreasonable" to me. Our solution was to analyze the potential loss over the course of five years and then accepting the need to spend a good portion of that in setting up a very high quality monitoring, recording and reporting system. We then put up lots of notices and worked with the local police to convince them to step up patrols in the area. Our loss prevention solutions reduced our overall risk which resulted in a lower insurance rate and our neighbor businesses benefited as well. We saw an almost one hundred percent reduction in theft attempts and in three years, each of the small number of successful attempts ended in prosecution and in one case, full recovery of all the stole items. In retrospect however, shocking the shit out of the thieving bastards and catching it all on tape would have been more fun.