Thats gotta be one of the most annoying tunes to have hit the airwaves in the last decade. What on earth was Lawrence thinking when he picked that one? Liberation Music should do humanity a favor takedown the rest of the videos on YouTube featuring that audio in the background.

They better have it on them at all times and not leave it in the car. The college industrial complex is overloading its classrooms, thus resulting in overcrowded parking lots. When I was a broke college student, I used to just leave my car doors unlocked intentionally because the assumption was always that if you have something in your car that thieves want badly enough, they're going to get it; even if it means breaking windows. I figured I might as well leave the doors unlocked because otherwise I'd have my stuff stolen AND broken windows to deal with. I didn't care because I had nothing of any real value anyhow, but now the parking lots will have more lure for would-be thieves ans seen as a treasure trove with the possibility of a $475 pawnable/ebayable item in every Nth parked car.

I don't recall having ever seen any sort of video or tv presentation or read an article or seen anything that clearly explains why its important to CLEAN your plastic recyclables. Now of course you can't leave food in it; thats common sense. But suppose I get done eating a rotisserie chicken in a plastic bag that has leftover chicken-juice clinging to the inside of the bag, I wanna know why I gotta go to the trouble of cleaning all that stuff out of there because its a bother and common sense tells me that its just gonna be burned off and vaporized in a melting process somewhere alone the line. And I can't think that the leftover remains of burnt chicken juice is going to make the entire recycling plant fall apart. So please explain WHY you're rejecting my somewhat-dirty plastic please.

Perhaps the reason they are laying off 90% of them is because they simply don't need them anymore because XKeyScore now does manually what used to take a lot of manual system administrator work to accomplish. They say they've been collecting data since 2008 but its plausible they've been at it for a lot longer than that.

I'm more productive when working from home. Much less distraction from coworkers, and much happier working while being able to listen to the radio station of my choosing. And one of the biggest benefits for me has been the exercise. When I was in corporate America, I had to drive an hour through rush hour twice a day (to work and back) and never had time to exercise. When I switched to working from home, I used the time I got back to exercise and started routinely riding my bike at least 15 miles each morning. And since I don't have to worry about staying workplace-presentable and sweat-free, sometimes during my lunch break I even skip the meal and just do an aerobic routine right in front of my computer while watching one of the many available for free on YouTube. I've lost 25 lbs since the day I started working from home.

they should re-do the study and compare soda to equal quantities of other things, such as chocolate milk, orange juice, punch, or anything else really. i bet the results would be similar

Once death occurs, aging ceases permanently.

I already figured out the "college industrial complex" long before the term was even coined. The overcrowded classrooms, lack of sufficient parking, ridiculously overpriced textbooks, and all other factors made it blatantly obvious. But what really made me lose my temper was the university's refusal to acknowledge and do anything about its broken online testing system. I was taking classes that required students to complete quizzes, tests, and final exams all via the college website. Almost everything was true/false and multiple-choice. We were permitted to see our quiz results when they were finished and which questions we got right and wrong, and also view our submitted answers. As the semester went by, I realized that their testing system was literally changing the answers that I had selected to wrong answers! Whats more, it was also counting correct answers as incorrect! Nearly every quiz I had taken had been brought down from a A to a B, a B to a C, and in one case an A to a D. Clearly their testing system didn't work correctly, and keep in mind this is the same system that we took our tests and final exams on, which usually counted towards 60% of our final average. For the tests and final exams, we were NOT permitted to see our submitted answers and NOT permitted to see which questions were counted as correct and incorrect. So I complained to all the respective departments and faculty, the dean, and they all just gave me the run around! Nobody wanted to make any attempt to fix the problem or even acknowledge that their system was broken. They were just going to keep on using it. I was furious. And then it occurred to me that by lowering everyone's test scores, they fail more students, who in turn will have spend more money re-taking the classes making second attempts to move closer to their goal of graduating. It even screwed people who could have otherwise made the deans list. When I think of all the thousands of students who poured their time and money into attending that university only to get ripped off systematically I was almost ready to file a lawsuit. But I was a poor broke powerless college student who really couldn't do much of anything to put a stop to it. I eventually graduated, but I've never gone back. Lived and learned.

This is bad comedy. I don't know who's more gullible: Germany, or the U.S.

successful twitter campaigns will increase voter turnout in the voting polls (for both parties). the voting booths and locations will not be equipped well enough to handle the normal volume of voter turnout because most of the sheeple are used to staying home rather than actually taking the time to vote. they'll show up and thousands of democrats will find that they should have registered to vote but didn't and so now they cant, or else they will have registered but some republican somewhere in the chain of communication will have conveniently forgotten to process their paperwork. then there will be angry "mobs" all fuelled by twitter, so of course now we'll have to censor it, and so on and so forth.....

seen those in RC planes. they're not jet engines, but they'll fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDykslL954

well obviously we'd need more powerful routers with greater range. it would spawn a whole new generation of prouducts to bring it to life. and of course they'd consume more electricity. you'd probably have to get rid of your cable internet bill and pay only for the mesh router power consumption.

We might as well just throw in the towel and go back to using kite string with styrofoam cups to communicate (kidding). Seriously though, all the "fighting" in the world doesn't stand a chance against the almighty dollar. Anyone who fights can either be forced to cooperate or else probably be bought-off. Since clearly after all that CISPA protesting the govt just went ahead and did it anyway, that pretty much says loud and clear weather or not they have any interest in what the public has to say in the matter. So the only solution I can think of is that we gotta find an alternative; something decentralized that can't be easily bottlenecked and used as a point-of-origin to intercept and track what is supposed to be private. Global wireless mesh networking is the only alternative I can think of, but for as many times as I've brought it up, someone always shoots the idea down and insists its not possible (just like going to the moon used to be "not possible", right?).

cool! just like in that 1995 movie "Hackers" ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHG3pi9EDA

Sure but what about 3rd parties ? The difference about nukes is that not just any old soldier can just walk right up to a nuke and hit the launch button. There's all kinds of security checks and balances in place to authenticate the identity of the launcher, and the average launch button likely rarely even gets exposure to the human eye. Securing a nuke is probably much easier because its actually tangible; something physical that can be protected by physical means. The NSA on the other hand has created a networked system that makes lots of private information available to lots of different people around the country at lots of different locations with a few simple keystrokes (XKeyScore). Its just data that gets queried. There are probably hackers already hard at work trying to gain unauthorized access to a terminal for it already right as we speak, and for all we know its already been compromised by a third party and just haven't been told about it yet. Or who knows.....perhaps some kind of under-the table deal could take place where someone rich enough could contribute to a politician's next campaign in exchange for access to it. There's other scenarios I'm sure, but anyhow, the point is that if it hasn't happened yet, in time it will at some point by some mode and means. I'd be much happier knowing it didn't exist at all in the first place, so there's nothing there to abuse, just like the good 'ol days.