At my school you had to pay for the locker each semester and there was also something to sign. I don't remember what it was I signed (7 years ago).

I might be a little more for privacy rights than most here since I was living the first 15 years of my life in Germany where there are much stronger privacy rights than in the USA. I'm just sometimes shocked to see how little people care for their privacy.

When steam starts without Internet connection, it will ask if you want to retry connecting to steam or start in offline mode.
There is nothing to configure to get it working. It also works if you don't save your password (just tried it to see what happens)

Isn't a locker search already going to far? Don't students rent the lockers from the school and can be compared to you renting an apartment?

Get a court order if you need to search a locker or an apartment/house. If you can't get one than you probably don't have enough prove.

After every school shooting you hear some group calling for the ban of violent video games. The best ones are always the ones where the shooter didn't even play any video games.
I wouldn't even see this as news since it happens every single time in every country.

You mean like the TN products that are on the market since about a year?
http://tngames.com/products

This year they will release the helmet where you can fell the head shots.

Breaking in into a bank through the ATM machine is probably the worst idea ever. Banks (or at least the banks I worked at) have a motion detector in the room behind the ATM. Only once I saw a bank that had an ATM removed and just covered up with plywood from the outside while the motion detector was disabled in that room. Triggering the ATM alarm is worse than the premises alarm because the premises alarm gets triggered sometimes from cleaning personnel or other employees but for the ATM room you need a special key that not everyone has.

I'm also not sure that you can easily go into debug mode without anyone noticing (assuming some employee let you in that room) because the ATM technicians have to call Diebold before doing anything with the machine. They will know if someone unauthorized is using the ATM and restarting with a live CD won't work because that will also trigger an alarm.
I'm guessing it was an Diebold employee that installed the malware since he would have been the only who could have gotten that much access to it.

Good luck with that. I just had my first IT job as contractor (was even lucky to find something) for 5 months and I was lucky to make $400 a week. Now I'm searching again and the IT job market is still bad.
But what can someone with a 4.0 GPA Master degree and CCNA certification expect?

We are already on a good way to robotic cars. We already got cars that can park themselves, we got cars that can read street signs (to tell the driver the current speed limit), we got cars that can stay in the lane and keep a distance from the car ahead.
We just need a car that puts all those features into one car instead of just a few cars having one of those features.

According to salary.com do public school teachers make 50K on average. That doesn't sound bad. I also heard from another teacher complaining how little she made but later learned that she was also in the 50K range.
In my opinion do public school teachers make too much money already for what they offer.

Did you read the article? I'm guessing not since it has the torrent links and rss feed for the show.

You are right, if the item cannot be bought new any more than there is no loss for the publisher. In that case I believe that there shouldn't even be a copyright anymore on the software.

I don't have real evidence but common sense. Every used item "harms" the creator of it because the creator of the used item doesn't make money on the resell. The creator only cares about the amount of new items sold and reduced used items will cause more new items being sold (not the same amount as used copies sold before). Software also doesn't get bad over time so that you can get the same quality as the new item.
You could argue that prices will get lower for new items if no resell is possible but like with digital distribution it doesn't happen because most companies are not non-profit.

Interesting that the terrorist are still allowed to use Google Street View to see what the blurred building is.

The problem is the accusation of illegal content instead of proving to a court first that it is illegal.
Like pjt33 said, it should be a civil matter.

Hulu has sometimes live streams. For example, the Presidential Inauguration was live on hulu. Technically it is already possible for them but cable companies wouldn't like it and probably force them not to offer it like they did with cutting of Boxee since it made Internet TV on the television too easy.