If you're 300 baud mind can't see that my joke wasn't predicated on your joke, then you'd better start learning Morse code.

How about you use that 25Mbps to pay your bill online and not pay in cash. Then again, you said you didn't get any smarter.

The cost of building a device doesn't necessarily include R&D costs. It's possible someone else has already done the work for you.

Flashing reds is probably a failsafe mode. You could give yourself a green, but it won't fix them for anyone else.

Because the CEO already got theirs and they can just step down and keep their share of the profits. Leave it for the corporation to handle without them.

I was stuck at a faulty red light with a sensor once. I waited for almost 5 minutes, wanting to call the police out to get me out of the stop light. Yes, I'm pedantic enough to annoy my wife like that. I knew that backing up and pulling forward would work, but it shouldn't have been necessarily.

The US is finally moving to chip and pin for credit cards by next fall.

What makes you think there are standards? I can almost guarantee that you're vendor-locked the moment you start building the system.

I think it's a bit more likely to go undetected if you do it wirelessly.

Our Constitution's Bill of Rights has a provision against cruel and unusual punishment.

And they may have set up a server farm to download from him to raise the hit count and claim them all as unlawful distribution.

I hope you don't write software for a living.

The laws aren't indexed to inflation, I don't think. So it's going to be even more silly one day.

Not necessarily. I understand theater tickets might cover most of the costs, but a lot of movies cost $100 - $150 million to produce (sorry for USD numbers). To recoup that and then be rewarded for taking such a financial risk is not such a bad thing. Especially since you also have to cover the cost of all the flops that had to be made along the way.

I'm pretty sure they would use trifluoroethane now.