I have already discombubulated the TSA agents with my utilikilt. Maybe I will start wearing it more often, "regimental" style, and while wearing a gay pride t-shirt and a big grin.

If they are going to be thugs, I'm going to make it funny.

I have to wonder if they are also banning microwave ovens. The ISM frequency range used by WiFi is unlicensed because it is the same frequency used by microwave ovens, and so is full of junk and interference.

The whole *point* of "collective bargaining" in "labor relations" (read "unions"), is that they exclude other groups. The last thing any union wants is a competing labor source. They will use any means, up to and happily including violence, to get competing labor suppliers (which they call "scab") to either get with the program, or get out.

Again I ask "How is that 'Hope N Change' working out for you?"

Four years ago this would have unleashed yet another tiresome pile of comments about "Bush" and "The Republicans". I see curious silence, and even a reversal of position, on the part of the current president's fans...

I have to wonder why the key ever existed in human-accessable form in the first place. Controlled access key storage hardware devices, dating back to the venerable SafeKeyer and before, are well understood technology. In fact, Intel makes such devices. Why weren't they keeping this master key in one?

Incompetence on top of incompetence.

Well, I was planning on closing my Chase credit card anyway.

| In the past, Amazon has argued that it should not have to help support public services in states in which it has no physical presence.

I'm disappointed in the !nothypocrit tag and this piece of text in the story.

Amazon pays postage, just like everyone else who sends stuff thru the USPS, at the same public rates as everyone else. They *are* paying for this particular public service.

It seems to me that the editor is trying to spin the story, either for his own biases, or just to generate argument.

I've just read the GSfD documentation, and the API is exactly the same as that of Amazon S3, which has been comfortably used by developers and web designers for years now.

Why was this story approved?

All the ACTA articles up to a year and a half ago made sure to say some varient of "The Bush Administration is..." but now its "The US trade representation delegation is..." instead of the more honest "The Obama Adminstration is...". Setting direction and lines in the sand for treaty negotiations of this magnitude come from the very top of the Executive Branch, e.g. from the President's desk, e.g. Barack Obama made this decision.

He's just yet another dirty Chicago politican, with the added advantage of a huge cohort of religious followers who made him the Obamessiah.