This is the exact reason for the Keystone XL pipeline terminating at Houston. It was never for supplying the US domestic market; it is solely for the export of crude (or meta-crude) on the more lucrative international market, resulting in not one penny lower gas prices for consumers.

This is why it's so hard to have respect for the extremist Right supporters: slavishly voting against their own interests in the childish fantasy that by letting billionaires become trillionaires, they themselves - by some inexplicable miracle - will become millionaires instead of the real downward spiral into poverty.

Hell, make it simpler, if someone leaves me their computer, does the drive need to be wiped and all the programs and OS repurchased, even if they came with the computer?

YES -- Business Software Alliance

This pork-barrel* will have a body count when it's all over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bio_and_Agro-Defense_Facility/

* Rammed through by Senator Pat Roberts, who hilariously will probably lose re-election to an insane Tea-Bagger.

I think we are going to make headway over the next few weeks on media leaks. I am an optimist. I think if we make the right steps on the media leaks legislation, then cyber legislation will be a lot easier

aka The Alien and Sedition Act 2.0

Computing research can help advance and perfect the Panopticon; Fusion would only damage Big Oil's profits and power.

Pretty clear choice for 99% of politicians.

I'm just waiting for Apple to sue all of them for daring to use their word 'Pod'.

Who Watches the Watchers ('batin)? Or does that require another filter?

It kinda reminds me of a Goa'uld Death Glider. So it's really a good thing the Nazis didn't find it.

Even the most ardent Glasshole cannot prove their piece of tech can't be hacked by the three-letter crowd, allowing not only themselves to be spied on, but also every freaking person they come into contact with.

Effing pointless. Legalization would actually improve everything - except militarized police budgets and powers, which IS the effing point.

The author of this article really doesn't know what he's talking about.

Pardon me, but I'm going to go with the man who is well-known for his integrity, intellect, guts to write under his own real name, Johnny.

Even if you did actually serve, I'm still not convinced to defer to you over the right-honorable Mister Schneier.

So I can have Gone in Sixty Seconds delivered to my car and have them both stolen before I get off work!

"Because any man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun."