Maybe I'm giving them too much credit, but I assume the FBI would be aware of Comcast's wifi sharing initiative. Just like running a coffee shop with free wifi that a customer did something unsavory with; the feds wouldn't come kicking in the door assuming that the shop owner was the culprit. They might knock and ask to see logs, but in this case they would get those from the ISP.

I don’t think Godwin applies to Farenheit 451.

Right! Slashdot's target audience are people who hear "back door" and think physical door.

They probably think “porn.”

“Formal race” probably means one governed by a recognized sanctioning body.

Where did anyone call this a "zero emissions" car? The summary mentions completing one lap with no emissions, but nobody is saying it's a zero-emissions vehicle.

That's called "well-managed expectations."

You could acquire a concrete manufacturer and bake explosives into construction long ahead of time, like when a new football stadium is being built five years ago

10krpm SCSI drives aren’t “consumer-grade” though. And last I checked (which was admittedly quite a while ago,) Seagate still has a five-year warranty on even their low-end HDs, while most other manufacturers top out at three years for consumer drives.

Even if colleges don’t give class credits for them, they still look good on an application.

Being forced to hear only one end of a conversation is vastly more irritating than hearing both parties.

A baby’s crying is involuntary, it can’t decide not to. An adult’s phone usage is the opposite.

What really marks it as a thoughtless childish outburst is this: If it was supposed to be payback for the Fort Lee mayor’s non-endorsement, how does punishing everyone trying to get over the bridge specifically punish him? Fort Lee residents represent a miniscule fraction of bridge traffic, and drivers aren’t going to blame the nearest mayor when they see some Port Authority snafu.

What the hell is wrong with taking a kid to a titty bar? The strippers love them.

"Isabel Allende's The House of The Spirits. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man. What do these titles have in common?"

None of the authors are white?

(I just realized that I unintentionally lapsed into semi dogespeak there. This is a dismaying development.)