Civil suit means the lawyers get shit tons of money and the defrauded consumers are given a check for $20 towards another replacement air bag, so they still lose.

I vote for exile by trebuchet.

Is Madagascar shut down yet?

Just like every corporation is run by the likes of Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff.

Is there really a need for the suits in the first place? For extra vehicular missions sure, but not all flights would have them and nor would all occupants need them? How many times have there been situations that the suit prevented injury or the lost of life? I don't call myself a Space historian, but from my recollection, having space suit did not help Apollo 1, Challenger or Columbia astronauts escape from their emergencies, nor were the Apollo 13 astronauts saved by theirs. Or is it really there to provide a false sense of security?

Last I checked, YouTube doesn't try to extort $20000 from content owners that do choose to submit DMCA takedowns either.

Don't worry every site you visit will be sent to Microsoft so they can follow up with each site and make sure they are following DNT correctly.

The reason is that on /., most of us think the missing step in the Profit meme should be "make a useful product and sell it", not "patent troll".

The police don't bother with the central traffic control, they just flip their lights on to make all the lights turn green for them.

I figure it means Krispy Kreme just turned on their sign.

Yes, the costs are so trivial that Wal-mart, Microsoft, and Yahoo all tried to shut down their DRM servers and only caved to the backlash, with no promises that they would remain on forever. If the costs are so trivial, then why bother with shuttering the services?

That is the fault whomever made the decision to use Gentoo. Gentoo has never been a good solution for long term support. Gentoo is about as bleeding-edge as distros get and old versions of software tend to drop off very fast. If you stability, then go with Debian.

If the government wants to kick in your door to frame you as a terrorist one morning, they are not going to the Census Bureau to find out that you answered that your leave your house at 7:15 every morning. More likely they will notice that your credit card data tells them you stop to buy a coffee from a Starbucks a few blocks away every morning at 7:20 and infer they should kick down your door before that.

You forget Wal-mart and Target likely know more about you than the government does and they do not have a 72-year confidentiality clause.

I guess if someone is dumb enough to list "Drug Dealer" as his occupation rather than "Unemployed".

To be worried about the Census Bureau having your name, age and address is stupid, Law Enforcement can already get it from the IRS, SSA, or state DMV databases, and that's just a few and they are likely much more up-to-date than the Census Bureau's data.

Last I checked, no one has to jailbreak their Linux install to run their own applications. You can in fact unpack the source, compile and run just about any software from within ~. One only needs root to install it globally.

Repos generally only provide supported packages and are not a walled-garden. In fact many distros make it trivial to create custom repos.

Except that the longest distance in Great Britain is ~600 miles North to South, that is roughly distance from New York City to Cincinnati. It is still another 2100 miles from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. The amount of coordination required to get all of that escort in place to move nuclear material from coast-to-coast means just about everyone would know when these trucks were moving.