There are two doors. Each guarded by one guard. Both will tell you which door goes where (one to where you want to go, the other to certain doom), but there's a catch. You can only ask one of them, and one always tells the truth while the other always lies. So you ask one of them "If I had asked the other guard which door was the correct door, which door would he have pointed to?", and whichever door he points to, you take the other one. It's a twisted logic, but there you go.

This is my favorite solution to the problem.

why didn't you switch when you could use ebay as search engine in firefox? or wikipedia? or amazon? or bing? or yagoo?
have you noticed, default is google, and every single engine can be set as default, should you want to.

basically, you're dumb.

I don't think he's complaining about the fact that there are search engine choices, but rather that the biggest new feature in a major version update is "you can use twitter as the default search engine." I mean, seriously, this is Mozilla saying, "We broke all your addons, but in return for the massive inconvenience, we've given you a trivially implemented new feature."

Landing? Shit, ILS approaches are so easy six-year-olds can do them.

I've made exactly one ILS approach in my life (during my PP-ASEL training, my CFI was a little bored and had me try one while we were doing some hood time) and I would never suggest it is something so easy anyone can do it. Even in a C172 moving along at 60kts it was a hell of an exercise (especially since it wasn't briefed before hand). I would have made the runway, but it was an ugly assed approach.

Yes, I'm sure a six year old could be taught to do it. That doesn't make it easy.

My only regret is live sports. I'm a fan of one particular sport that is carried on a cable sports channel, and has virtually no online availability.

This is what you want. Not, strictly speaking, legal, but pretty much every sport you may want to watch can usually be found on the forums, live.

We have a different type of electronic voting. Oregon uses vote by mail, and each person fills out a scan-tron form (something a 2nd grader can do). Not only is there a paper trail, but it is proven technology.

Voting intimidation is eliminated when you vote in your own home and you don't have to deal with crowded poll places. I don't understand why more states don't do this.

You think this is less prone to voter intimidation? It seems that something like, "bring your ballot to Joe's Bar at 2:00PM on Friday. We're going to fill it out and vote for $CANDIDATE, then we're going to drop it in the mailbox. If you don't comply, I'll break your legs," would be a rather trivial exercise.

Good question. My newsreader has a killfile. Would be nice to have one here.

Add the user to your foes list, and set your modifier for foes to -6, and your threshold to some value greater than or equal to 0?

idiots in the US voted in a corporate puppet who couldn't articulate two sentences in a row TWICE.

Oh, come now. Bush managed to string together a coherent statement at least three--maybe even four--times in his eight years. Saying he couldn't manage to do it just twice is base libel.

There is absolutely nothing unreasonable about allowing a family to benefit from another family member's labors. Lord of the Rings is a great example.

While it's arguable that the mithril shirt and Sting came in quite handy, I can't agree that Frodo really benefited from Bilbo's labors--in the end, they brought him nothing but pain.

...okay, so that's really bad humor, but I couldn't resist.

I always liked the Kevin Spacey quote from the end of K-PAX:

Prot: I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

Honestly, it's a marketing gimmick. An OC3 is a specified bandwidth I can saturate 24/7/365/1000 That OC3 has 150meg UP and DOWN. No bandwidth caps, no ports blocked, no throttling, etc....

This is a true statement, but when you read slashdot posts, this is what people expect out of a residential internet connection, even though this expectation just isn't realistic. "zOMG, Comcast is throttling teh bittorrentz!!!!11one" is a common refrain, and we hear about how over subscription is immoral, should be illegal, etc.

Take away these limitations, though, and you're left with the idea that people want the performance and class of service of an enterprise grade circuit, and want to pay peanuts for it. I stand by my statement above: I cannot understand why people find this "expensive."

FWIW, I've almost always received merit raises, even when faced with a relatively bad economy. They might not be the biggest in the world when the company was struggling, but they were more than fair when things were going well. I've worked for companies with 50 employees and a few hundred thousand a year in sales, and I've also worked for a company with 400,000 employees and $100B in sales, and my experiences were largely similar in this regard.

Be good at what you do. Be willing to take on responsibilities outside your core job functions. Be someone your boss doesn't have to actively manage. Don't be a dick. Understand what the company you work for does, and how they do it. (I'll concede this last one may not be feasible if you work for a large company with a very diverse business... you should be able to figure things out at the division level, though).

Do these things and you will, typically, be well compensated for it. If not, find a better class of employer.

As long as everybody is equally unhappy, then things are fair. What would be unfair is for certain people to be happy when others are not.

Based on the rest of your post, I don't think you are advocating this position (merely stating why someone would do this). Still, I'd suggest that anyone who agrees with this notion to read Harrison Bergeron, where "equality of outcome" is the central theme. This is where we will eventually be led.

I honestly can't believe that people bitch about paying $200 a month for speed comparable to an OC3 ($20k/month).

That's actually why there's blackout periods for insiders buying/selling shares, as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley rules. When I was at Dell, I wasn't allowed to buy/sell within 30 days (either way) of any public statement regarding earnings or future plans.

Is that really correct? I'm generally in favor of laws and rules that prevent insiders from profiting on confidential information at the expense of the public, but the above seems really, really, harsh. The company does, at a minimum, four such statements a year (quarterly earnings), not counting other possible announcements (forecasts, Jobs doing his "one more thing" bit, etc). I mean, even just looking at quarterly announcements, assuming that they were equally spread across the year, you would prohibit anyone classified as an insider from trading for 244 calendar days, or 2/3rds of the year! Add on anything outside of this, and you are basically locked in or locked out of the market. completely.

It's like one of those laws that says sex offenders can't live within 1000' of a school--good luck finding anywhere that actually meets this definition in any US city.

The average Canadian should start using end-to-end encryption. And why not? It's what the criminals are already doing. May as well achieve parity with them.

If DPI is on the table, then DPI-SSL is the next logical step. Appliances to do this already exist for the corporate LAN, and basically executing a MITM attack, and proxying the traffic. The enterprise admin just installs a certificate on the client devices, and, as far as the user is concerned, everything is pretty much transparent.

Once the government gets you used to reading all of your unencrypted traffic, then when they go after your encrypted traffic, they will have already mostly won the fight--they will make the argument that "only those with something to hide would object," and they will succeed.

I give it 5-10 years before this is a reality.