Is this from the same group that gets all up in arms when Christians try to shove their beliefs down other people's throats? How is trying to change the beliefs and mores of the gaming community any different? You're still trying to change who they are to better suit you.

To neurosurgeons? A fair few I should imagine.

Okay, generally insightful and well put. But I need to point out that the Hague Convention prohibits hollow point bullets in warfare and as such they are certainly not military rounds. Also, vastly more rounds of ammo are expended in practice, training, and re-certification exams than will ever be shot at live targets. I would be surprised if DHS and all its agents used less than a billion rounds of ammo a year - 99+% of which would be shot at paper targets.

Don't use your work laptop for personal things at work. Simple, problem solved. Use your phone, tablet, personal computer+hotspot, whatever, just don't use company resources on company time to deal with personal things. Or if you do accept any possible consequences.

Exactly. This is how you do a transparent proxy with SSL. It doesn't mean that data is being stored somewhere, it just means you're taking reasonable precautions to protect against malware/spam/internet threats. Yes, you theoretically *could* use this to sniff passwords and stuff, I guess, but that would just open up all kinds of liabilities. The easiest and cheapest thing is to discard the data once it's passed inspection. That's what most of these devices do.

Look, I support vaccinations and all, but you really have to give people the right to raise their kids as they see fit. There can be no regulation or rule that will apply to 100% of the population with success. Especially when it comes to such a widely unique spread as you find with children. Even among siblings what worked for raising one of them is utterly destructive when you attempt to apply it to the other. Parenting is a highly individualized activity, and beyond certain basic guidelines, you really want to leave it up to the parents.

I agree, bucket sort is the easiest for me to implement. Especially if there's a large amount of items. Once it gets down to a smaller collection I typically implement a variation on bubblesort on the vastly smaller piles. Unless I know it's already nearly sorted (as with stacked bills, oldest on the bottom), then I do an insertion sort to get the small handful of out of order items into the right places.

People may forget, but originally GMail was invitation only and the tech world was clamoring for invite codes. All kinds of message board threads where people would throw them out there and others would scramble to use it before someone else grabbed it.

This whole thing with Glass reminds me of that. Whip up a furor over Google Glass being "exclusive" but this time around charge $1500 for the privilege. I would be surprised if very many people were being turned down. By now it's feeling more like a marketing campaign.

Hrmm. Two acre-feet of water is about 660,000 gallons. Also, conveniently, right around the volume of an Olympic sized swimming pool. Either your backyard is *enormous* or you've miscalculated the conversion from gallons to acre-feet.

Wasn't Newton all into alchemy in his later years?

It's actually wrapped back around to advertising. See, they're just trying to camouflage it as "humorous" to get one or two people to think it's funny, haha, cute joke while getting their name out there. The problem is that it's still just advertising. It just requires an extra layer of cynicism to see it for what it is.

Except for the environmental toxins that would release, I would agree with you.

What we really need is a local black hole to chuck unwanted devices into. Guaranteed information destruction baby!

Except that if just one byte of any given block is unrecoverable the entire block is unrecoverable. Even 95% would be insufficient to have much statistical chance of recovering a single block of real data. And that is assuming the encryption is 100% trivial to reverse for the NSA or whoever is trying to break into it.

Islam. Though technically they allow peace with another religion as long as the people practicing it wholly submit to their Muslim overlords and pay a tax for the privilege of existing.

And, oh I don't know, maybe with the backing of an advanced system of mathematics proving the viability of your theory?