Actually this is more like a guy whose mental state is uncertain, standing unprotected in the middle of an open field, saying "Here, I have a gun in my pocket" to his enemies who are all armed to the tooth and spread out over a huge area all around him, some of them protected by huge concrete bunkers but with a clean line of fire to him.

The "M" part of MAD only works when both countries have the ability to "AD" each other. The USA can do that to North Korea in the blink of an eye, but NK wouldn't stand a chance of doing the opposite. So even if they ARE crazy enough to attack, they stand to lose much much more than USA does. And for the record, I find it hard to believe that the leadership of NK are anything more than power-hungry bureaucrats. And power-hungry bureaucrats never consider a path of certain self-sacrifice as a viable option. But then again, I might be wrong...

So Daniel Craig walks up to this scanner and is greeted by a female voice that goes, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. We have detected that you are about to commit a felony. We strongly urge you to reconsider."

Neither have I. Windows 8 has been working just fine for me, though, as long as Classic Shell keeps the crappy Metro interface away from me...

I have Windows 8 running on a computer that lacks the secure boot feature. So no, I don't give a damn if the secure bootloader is M$'s doomsday weapon.

That reminds me of the time Sony published a "fix" for the infamous CD rootkit back in 2005, only to get called on it when people found out that the patch concealed the rootkit but left it active instead of deleting it.

You missed me when you talked about g (the pull of Earth's gravity on its surface) instead of G (the universal gravitational constant).

In his book "The day of the Jackal" Frederick Forsyth mentioned that the universal policeman's prayer is, "Please dear God, not while I am on duty." Which goes to say, sane people who know what being in a gunfight is REALLY like (what you see in movies does not count, mind you) are not exactly eager to get involved in one.

Isn't that when the attacker approaches his enemy, who begins wailing, "Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go!"

A quick Google search revealed that the Chinese and Japanese have their own polearm variations. But then again, different local versions of this stuff are likely to exist in different places all over the world, and I guess at some point you have to draw the line to keep your option list manageable.

That was a joke, not a troll, you insensitive clod! It's funny! Laugh! Seems like everybody misunderstood my shameless bid for a "+5 Funny."

I am going to fucking kill Java! I destroyed Larry Ellison before and I will do it again! (throws chair across room) Posting again because I messed up the previous post, sent from a smartphone (my first /. post ever from one).

i am going to fucking kill java! I destroyed l do it again! (throws chair across room)rry ellison before and i willd

Do you imply that these people took a cue from the Iran government reporting on their newly developed stealth military plane?

Hey, cool down pal, didn't mean to offend anyone... Just tossing in a little humor, that's all. Peace!