This would make it more difficult for criminals to steal cars; they'd have to take some extra time to disable the tracking device and put some out-of-state plates on the car.

I'm pretty sure that noh8rz9 is one of those people who thinks that the government should spend who-knows-how-much-money to move who-knows-how-many-people at the expense of the taxpayer. Of course, noh8rz9 isn't one of those taxpayers.

So the citizens should just commit crimes, so that they can get relocated for free!

Are you suggesting that the state should force the citizens to leave? Or are you suggesting that the citizens are too poor to afford bus fare for an air-conditioned greyhound bus ride?

You have to prove that they're doing it. And you can't do that because the information is classified.

...because superstition and white-male supremacy are the reason that Obama won the past two elections? I'm not sure I follow. Or are you saying that you yourself are ignorant, and bigoted against white males, and that's why you voted for Obama?

I grew up in Montana. I've been to Great Falls. If there were zombies in February, the zombies arose from the grave and them promptly iced over, and were then disassembled using chainsaws.

So, two people is now a mass shooting?

No. The FBI defines mass murder as four or more murders with no cooling-off period.

I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count two people as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.

What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.

See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.

So, one person is now a mass shooting?
I applaud the reality that gun violence has decreased so much in the past 30 years that we now count a single person as a mass shooting! Our society has made great strides.
What does 30 years have to do with it? 1973 is when the US started to phase out leaded gasoline.
See, what anti-gun activists don't seem to realize is that they are fighting against the wrong kind of lead poisoning.

RTFS.

Or, RTFA for the details:

Still outrageously stupid, but I think $4,300 to destroy $170,500 is a reasonable cost. I think the other costs--the ones with 6 or 7 figures--are the ones you should focus on.

But really, isn't giving US companies #2.3 million what the Economic Development Administration is supposed to be doing anyways? Better than spending it on the salaries for these government employees.

WillHPower did not make FOSS a requirement; why are you making it a requirement? Can you explain why a closed-source security feature must by a scam?

WillHPower wants to get his laptop back if it is stolen. He's not asking for ideological purity. He knows that if his laptop has a tracking device that the tracking data could be used by law enforcement against him. That's what tracking software does; it tracks. That is not a bug, that's a feature, and is actually the feature he wants to have. Apparently he doesn't wear tinfoil; he's not required to. It is his right as a thinking person to choose to be paranoid, or not be paranoid.

The best solution is some form of hardware lo-jack. Maybe a GPS transmitter that can fit in one of the external ports on his laptop, if that isn't built in already.

Possibly with advertisers who weren't aware that their ads might be shown next to pictures of goatse.

One of the below posters states that there's a 1/4 ounce size requirement for the weapon to be considered a WMD, so that excludes your typical firework stand fireworks. And if you throw the fireworks at a fuel storage tank, or at a natural gas pipeline transmission station, you would be charged with negligence of some sort, even if you didn't intend to blow up anything. Being an idiot is no excuse for doing dangerous things in a careless manner.

And your point is...? We're talking about the government that was interested in the phone records of every Verizon customer for 3 months.

Because ordinary people buy pressure cookers all the time. It's not a purchase that will be flagged; pressure cookers are not inherently dangerous, or typically used for dangerous purchases. On the other hand, buying explosives WILL get you flagged. I wouldn't be surprised if buying $200 worth of ammunition or $50 worth of gunpowder would get your other recent purchases reviewed. And if someone see's "remote control" anything on that list of purchases, they're gonna come after you.