Because if someone calls in and they don't break your house and kill your dogs, someone will sue them?
Suing the police for not responding to actual violent crimes has been tried. The courts ruled that the police have no obligation.
To bad most of our drive in theaters are gone. I am thinking it would be harder to attack a drive in theater.
Totally. What terrorist activity could someone possibly perform while driving a car into a crowded area?
They're computer crackers. What are they going to do? Why all the fear?
There's always been fear about the 'evil hackers' and the terrible, magical things they can do. From Wikipedia:
Mitnick served five years in prison--four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement--because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone", meaning that law enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.
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