The politicians just love the planet so much they tried to put a ring on it.

While I don't approve of capital punishment, due to the errors that have been made in identifying the guilty party, the excessive cost when compared to life incarceration, and the fact that it just doesn't deter crime, this has to be the least of my concerns. If we're only considering lethal injection, then of the several drugs that are administered, the first is to put the sentenced to sleep. Once effectively drugged into sleep, the rest of the drugs merely terminate all the functions of the body that keep it alive. There probably isn't much left to experience that last surge of brain activity.

As it happens, though, if someone is sentenced to death I don't think 30 seconds of pure terror is really relevant. Ultimately, we're killing them, and they've been dealing with their impending death for years.

What could possibly go wrong?

"I called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks. My preference - and I think the American people's preference - would have been for a lawful, orderly examination of these laws; a thoughtful, fact-based debate." - Obama

Mr. President, how are we supposed to have a thoughtful, fact based debate about programs which are so secret nobody knew about them until a whistle blower revealed them directly to the public. About a court who's orders are so secret that entire companies shut down when the thread of an order looms, and they can't even say what the threat was.

Without transparency, there can be no debate. Without Snowden, there would be no transparency on this issue.

I'd forgotten to turn off third party cookies in my current browser. Thanks for reminding me that the option exists.

Currently wireless devices negotiating connections to nearby WiFi points need to exchange MAC addresses in the initial exchange of data, on an essentially open channel, because all data exchanges recognize each other with the MAC address, to determine routing.

Perhaps the spec could be augmented by allowing a randomized MAC address that is not tied to the device. Define the first octet so manufacturers don't assign anything to it, and leave the remaining bits as completely random. Make the next part of the packet the public half of a key pair that the device expects responses to come back to. Allow the same random MAC address scheme to be used by either side of the connection. Only accept packets that can be properly decoded with the private key of the key pair, which eliminates the problem of random MAC address collisions. As a part of negotiating the secured connection, when exchanging the private key also exchange the real MAC address only after the secured connection is complete. Or, never use the real MAC address and retain the random MAC address for the duration of the connection.

Actually .5% is a hundred times more than 5 thousandths of a percent.

Which means we're both wrong, because it is .05%.

1/2048 ~= .0005 = .05%

I should have said 5 hundredths of a percent, I misspoke in the original. (My math was correct, but I saw .05 as thousanths not hundredths.)

The problem will arise when the computers recreate the Funniest Joke in the World, sealed under a monument in 1950 labeled "To The Unknown Joke" After all, the computer will not know it has created the Killer Joke, leaving us with the danger of mass hysterics breaking out.

Also bear in mind that substantial investments in major corporations can give the investor some sway in the corporation's decisions. If a major stakeholder threatens to pull out, it can injure the corporation, so when a major stakeholder tries to effect change, the corporation is more likely to listen.

Actually this is one of the better reasons for casting a female Doctor for one regeneration. Moffat would end up (possibly inadvertently) writing the Doctor as a male personality even though the Doctor would have regenerated as a woman. There are many character traits that the Doctor carries through regenerations, and it might make sense that a female Doctor, an individual who's been a male for thousands of years, wouldn't act the way we expect a human female to act.

Yes, the probability of coming up male 11 times out of 11 times for an evenly weighted coin flip is 5 thousanths of a percent. That strongly implies that either the coin flip isn't evenly weighted or it isn't a coin flip at all. Therefore, it would be likely that regenerating with a different gender is the result of an external event.

You're not really blocking Facebook in the user browsers, are you? Wouldn't it make more sense to block at the network level?

This is a VTOL carrier, through and through. I don't see any significant weaponry on board beyond the aircraft carrying capabilities, and no sources that I can find indicate the armanent of DDH-183 Izumo. Helicopters and VTOL manned and drone aircraft would be ideal uses for that flight deck.

Any illegal drug will suffice to draw it out, though growing a food plot visible from the air of an appropriately illegal drug may be a better idea. Baiting is poor sportsmanship.

They're always in season!

For a good drone call, pick up any handy cellphone on any major provider, call a friend, and discuss your food plot, above. PRISM will take care of the rest.

A good blind should provide cover and be part of what the drone expects to see, disguise it as equipment for your food plot, such as a water tank.

WARNING: drone calls and attractants are also highly effective attractants for federal agents, who may be accompanying the drone from the ground. They may dispute the drone season defined by local law and may not understand that your food plot is solely for the drone's benefit.

You just need the right bullet for the job.