Wait... Twinkies will be alive after the nuclear holocaust?

TO THE LABORATORY!!! I shall irradiate a bulk order of twinkies and then use my army of animate snack food to take over the world!!!

There is a limit to Moore's law, there has to be. and when we reach that limit we'll see focus be put back on optimization rather than ever faster hardware. Yes, it'd be much better to shift focus sooner, but I doubt we'll see it happen.

Perhaps, but the story author doesn't have an IT guy.

Heck, my grandma is better about computer security than the 'manager' mentioned in the story.

A lot of people can recognize such things already. They just don't want to take the time to bother with it. So dock the cleanup costs out of their pay, suddenly they'll be a LOT more careful about what they trust.

When I was younger, the mother of one of my friends was bad enough about it that her computer needed wiping on a weekly basis. My friend wasn't much of a computer person, but he at least knew what not to do. Unfortunately he was stuck using the same machine and so still had to deal with it. For a while I was fixing it for them for free since he was a friend, but when I started charging $20/hour for cleanup his mother changed her ways amazingly quickly.

Nah, they match up just fine. The girl who's shoe you can see is the one who's arm is mostly horizontal across the top of the picture.

Damn, my mod points expired last night. Someone mod parent insightful please.

Modern copyright law may be insane, but at least Mozart is in the public domain.

Or those who don't trust the IRS to figure out the overage correctly. I certainly wouldn't. (Note: I'm a broke college student, so I don't have much taxable income... yet.)

And when was the last time you checked just how damn hard it is to become a doctor? Of course they're going to get paid well.

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Nah, your 'I' might not, but considering the shit that gets through the USPTO, your 'BM' may be able to.

New Zeland appears to have been Slashdotted.

I'd like to point out that a Terrorist (in general) deliberately targets civilians. If someone is claiming to be a Freedom Fighter they had better be taking steps to ensure that their targets are military in nature. If they target civilians out of choice, then they lose the right to claim freedom fighter status (doesn't stop them from claiming it anyway, but they're just deluding themselves.)

she was wearing her seat belt which became jammed.

Things like this are why everyone should carry (at least) a pocketknife, either on them or in their car within easy reach. Mandatory seatbelt laws save far more lives than they cost, and the problem you quote is so easily avoided that it's a straw man arguement against them. Though current seatbelt buckles are not as reliable to release as the old style flip buckles, so perhaps there should be a law regarding the reliability of the release mechanism, kind of like the one regarding the reliability of brakes.

Ah, well, cyberhands are coming... someday.