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I respectfully disagree. The only instances I've seen Pedo Bear being used is two fold 1) As a joke (95% of the time) 2) When someone is being skeezy about kids, someone will reply with a Pedo Bear reference, basically using it as a tool to call someone out on it. If there is a 3rd category, I haven't seen it, nor have I been able to find it in various searches, so I'm going to go with a [Citation Needed] in reference to pedophiles using it as a tool to discuss with minors. Law enforcement is being stupid in this case.

All good man. I'd mod ya funny had I the points.

I converted my wife to Ubuntu after the 8th virus in 3 months. I did buy Crossover Pro for Photoshop, but that's about it. She loves how much faster her laptop is. She games on Facebook, uses Evolution for email, and OpenOffice for writing, etc. She's got Hulu Desktop installed, and will dock her laptop to our home theater system and watch TV that way. The number of "Hey hon, can you look at this?" type things have gone down incredibly. She's been on Ubuntu for about 18 months now, and can't fathom going back. So, I don't think that your point of, "Granny just stopped asking for help" is really valid. People are people, if you mess up their PC, you'll hear about it at every family gathering.

There are other articles like this: http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/blogpost/8228715/ floating around
Basically they say that Cisco is really looking at Smart Grid stuff, not Skype.

Anyone got a contact at any of the companies in question to actually confirm/deny/etc?

Assault is assault. Law Enforcement agents have the right to use force on you only to defend themselves.They can't just randomly assault you. They can restrain you, certainly, but that is a different story.
They can't just beat on you without consequence, at least not legally

Oh for mod points

Thank you! There is nothing wrong with the act of storing a bunch of cash in whatever way you see fit. Also, last I checked, that whole, "Innocent until proven guilty" thing was still around.

Their homework required the use of the school issued computer. Assignments were not accepted if they were not done on the school issued PC. So, in short, if they wanted to actually get a good grade in the class, then yes, they had to take the laptop home. In theory, the student could 'not accept' the laptop, and check one out in the library, working exclusively in the library until it closed, and then checking it back in. Considering the reduced hours that the library was open, I don't see how that was feasible option. Oh, and the parents had to pay a fee to have the "privilege" of having their kids spied on.

Technically speaking it hasn't been dismissed by the courts. It's been dismissed before it even makes it to the courts. That's what bothers me the most about this.

It's not fraud or breach of contract. There was no contract saying, "We're going to use the webcam to monitor your children." The contract said that the webcam may be activated to locate lost or stolen laptops. The issue that brought this to light was a vice principle hauling a kid into the office for "doing drugs in his room" Those "drugs" turned out to be candy. Heard of "Unreasonable Search and Seizure?" I will give you that it can be prosecuted as a civil matter, but it is most certainly a criminal matter as well. Additionally, of those thousands of images how many of them contained inappropriate images? I know that if I caught someone taking pictures of my kids, I'd be all over any DA that DIDN'T press charges. Yes I know this is federal not state/county/etc. Same principle applies.

I could not agree more. Lying about it when you were questioned, "Why is the webcam light going active?" means that you've also attempted to cover it up. I would argue that there was criminal intent.

This.

The real problem is that most drivers are not required to take classes that teach them how to deal with these circumstances, and continuing education to stay current with the training. Additionally, as cars age, their ability to deal with those circumstances goes down as well.

The problem isn't predicting the "Known" conditions and having solution, it's the unknown conditions that will get you. Only a properly trained and skilled driver will be able to deal with those problems. Sorry, but I trust my own ability to handle my vehicle a heck of a lot more than I trust a computer. I would not buy one of these vehicles.

I leave the hard drive out of my laptop, boot off of read-only media. I write back to flash drives for data that needs saving. I leave my phone in airplane mode. Never had a problem, but have been called "paranoid" ;)