I lost my reverence for the television industry honoring itself long ago. Moreover the series is a training film for misogyny. The world would be a better place with it off the air, no matter how many awards it wins.

Because the pretentious twat reviewer types will savagely treat any monochrome product. Moreover the trendy hipster crowd would never use anything not in full color. It would be a sales disaster. Practical? Who the hell ever got invited to parties for being practical?

You're not thinking like a terrorist. They don't care about a line at the airport, they want a big flashy attack that will make all the newspapers. If Boko Haram had attacked small schools all over Nigeria instead of one big one, would they have gotten into the news? Nope, forget it, it the mainstream media wouldn't have paid attention. But now everyone knows the name Boko Haram and what they want: Western influence out of Nigeria, permanently.

How long is a subway car? Most of the world doesn't have subways. Just shows the writer's unconscious bias when she fails to consider this because she and everyone she knows uses the subway every day. It's pernicious and it's inexcusable for educated people.

"pro-unrestrained capitalist propaganda" I guess is what leftists are calling anything that disagrees with their own viewpoints. Funny how we're all supposed to be tolerant of different opinions, until those opinions don't follow left-wing thought. Then the most vile denunciations are appropriate to use, and dehumanizing your targets is a suitable response. Sickening, but here we are.

Netvibes has been a nice drop-in replacement for me.

Yes, because leaving Nazi Germany intact under a different Fuehrer was such a great idea. They wouldn't possibly use the separate peace with the Allies to fight the Soviets at all.

Nazism had to be utterly wiped out. There could be no negotiating with a Jew-killing ideology.

No, it is just the usual idiot news that has zippo to do with nerds. You know, stuff you'd see on reddit.com. If it's going to be like that, why even bother having two websites?

There's no Berlin Wall in America. No guard towers, barbed wire, or land mines to keep the people in. In fact, fences are regarded as useless and large sections of the borders are simply left unguarded, for anyone to escape. I think you didn't get the memo on the whole Berlin Wall metaphor. And besides, you're supposed to compare the USA to Nazis, those are the wrong kind of Germans.

"Communism is powerful, powerful stuff. So powerful it managed to spread laziness, poverty, and hideously poor engineering in a country populated entirely by Germans."

You miss the point. The paper did pass peer review and was published. In a credible journal. It is a great embarrassment to have to retract the paper. The vaunted peer review - supposed to eliminate problems like this - failed.

Well, How about (for real) a body was dumped in front of my house. They asked "Hey, we know that at 10:30ish this body was dumped in front of your house, did you happen to see the car?" (there were whiteness to the kidnapping a few miles away). Of course I told them what I knew "Nope officer, didn't hear/see a thing till I looked out the window and saw a bazillion flashing lights, sorry" "OK, Thanks"

You are correct - they should be looking at the outgoing mail stream, and if outgoing, insist on encryption.

    Of course, they could also insist on encryption even internally, but there might be backlash

If GS and anyone else for that matter who was going to send data that could result in ""needless and massive" breach of privacy." start insisting on encryption? I know my wife's company basically sends an email with a link, and you have to go log in to see the data.

They are sending this stuff over the internet where anyone along the line can read it

MAYBE, just maybe, if the financial companies started insisting on say a public key encryption method to send confidential data, ALL of us would be much better off (GPG anyone?)

Do you want the Tea Party to win? SHUT UP when the good guys are talking, dumbass! Give money and trust it's going to be used well. We can outspend those fuckers if we all pull together and stop with the stupid questions!

Well, you can play that game all night. The mental asylums were all closed from ACLU lawsuits because it's cruel to imprison people who have committed no crime. Where do we put the crazies? Mental asylums? No way, they were all closed down!