I'm betting a lot of people don't know the date of the Boston Marathon bombing. But threats are meant for people who DO recognize the significance, and the people who watch for threats do know what these dates are. The key point here is: did what he post actually look like it might be a threat? I say yes, and the fact that the people you asked didn't know the date doesn't have any effect on the situation.

"Georgia Public Schools...somebody's gotta build the cars!"

I'm not sure if I think it's incredibly disheartening that Stephen Hawking had been following that whole situation, or that I think it's incredibly cool that he's that in touch with kids. Hm.

Can it be both?

Are you sure they didn't say she would "remix" the company instead?

It's just a euphemism. I remember working for a company that started embracing offshoring, which they called "right-shoring." Layoffs were called "right-sizing." And the executives were called "cunts." Amazing how just a little "word-smithing" can make things sound better than they really are, huh?

It's Kim Dotcom.

So, basically, this is the equivalent of SEO for interviewing at Google. Or, in other words, a whole litany of "This would have worked yesterday, but now, DO NOT DO THIS!"

Ah, hell...I hadn't thought of that. Well played, sir!

No, no, no...you see, she's not criticizing Tim or Hilary for their stances. She's criticizing them for doing business with people that don't share their stances.

Fiorina, on the other hand, hates both fags and women. Hence, she's not a hypocrite herself for being FROM Silicon Valley or having done just as much business with China. So it's all good!

It's still better than being next to fucking Oklahoma.

RTFA; that won't help.

The problem is that before you can connect out to use your VPN, you first have to get provisioned by the hotel's wifi. This involves at a minimum checking a box that says "I won't try to hack or do bad things," along with either authorizing a charge, giving the webpage your hotel frequent traveler info/name and room number, or authorizing a charge for the Internet access. Those pages are what put you at risk; the attacker hacks the router that serves up the page, adds a nice little bit of extra code to serve up malware (that he also uploads to the router itself, so no need for outside Internet to get it), and boom...everyone with a vulnerable system that connects in that hotel gets pwned.

And that's beyond the risk of the machine serving as a jump-point for deeper penetration into the hotel itself. How is your using a VPN going to protect the hotel's keycard system from being hacked? Or protect your private information that resides in the reservation system?

Jordan has access to enough water. Just because it's in the middle east doesn't mean it's a desert. Power plants go near population centers, and population centers exist near water. Even more importantly, there's a difference between "drinking water," with all of its sanitation, distribution, and monitoring needs, and just plain "water," which can be found in any lake. Heck, lots of power plants have man-made lakes to supply that water.

But you're missing the real point. Modern nuclear plants don't need that much water. The Fukushima reactor is the oldest design there is, and its dependency on water is one of the reasons it's no longer used. Passive cooling towers (the big bong-looking cement things that we associate with nuclear plants, but which can also be used on other non-nuclear plants) massively reduce the water requirements of a nuclear plant, and are almost certainly what would be used.

Not true. A lot of religious fundamentalists also consider imag...oh. Uh, yeah...that's right...good point.

There is when it's totally off-topic and entirely irrelevant. It doesn't matter that Google is involved; this is about China and spying on their own citizens. Google's business model has nothing to do with it. Disliking Google has even less to do with it...because Google is, to date, the only tech company that has ever stood up to China over things like this. In this situation Google is actually the good guys.

And, for the record, every company wants a monopoly. That's why monopolies were outlawed. I think it's you that should use your brain.

"What do you mean, you can't come out to fix my hard drive until next week? Don't you know how cold it is outside?!?!?"