So I guess you'd mod everyone that has an IQ higher than 80 that actually passed high school science. :(

Lol, I'm pretty sure everyone in my military career field is automatically on watch lists, so I don't worry about it happening anymore, I just assume it's already happened. :P

And of course nobody in the history of the world has ever thought about a type of deadman switch (possibly software based on a smartphone) where if it doesn't receive a "keep alive" signal at specific intervals or communications are interrupted for more than a very short period, it automatically triggers.

They have a requirement to get those papers to the target, and I'm guessing a restriction on making those papers public.
So there are two really big problems with this:
Posting it to facebook may make it visible to lots of people it shouldn't.
Facebook is a piece of crap that often doesn't show things it should, so there is absolutely no guarantee the target will ever even see it.
I guess next those morons will broadcast it on tv.

Confident or not, Apple always acts as though they can do anything they want to, up until they are actually dragged into a court. Then they "may" make some concessions, if they can't avoid it.

So you're saying that it's impossible that something this obscure wasn't a prominent part of the politicians campaign and of course all the voters had already considered such unlikely minutia, as well as that having the few choices of candidates wouldn't include rich bastards that can be bought off....

So what planet are you from? On this one it happens all the time.

And still the #1 nutcase politician running a country that isn't North Korea is still the shirtless russian by an entire furlong.

They're smart enough to have morals and not sabotage society for their own benefit, otherwise they'd probably already be politicians.

I'm not saying these guys didn't goof up in some way, or if they were right, it's just that sometimes the old paradigm of how everyone believes things work is just plain wrong.
I'll give one example from when I was in high school. As any programmers among the readers know, the slowest form of sort is the bubble sort. We figured out how to make it faster than all other types of sorts. We kind of freaked when our trick not only worked, but it made it the fastest. We then tested it and worked out an algorithm to keep it at it's fastest.
The old paradigm that bubble sorts are the slowest sorts got destroyed, so it's always going to be possible that old accepted assumptions about how things work can be overturned, even if it requires certain specific parameters. (Of course crap code will F anything, so that's not what we're talking about.)

I wouldn't mind a return of the series, either a reboot or an effective sequel. I just don't think it'll work with the old cast. Their stories were pretty much run into the ground about 2 decades ago. Have some new blood pick up the threads and what happens when they give them a tug.

Dude, I think your meds are off.

Yeah, after close to 20 years, they really should have their replacements take up the x-files. As it is, I have my doubts about Sculley being able to still be so dismissive of Mulders weirdo theories, and let's face it, at his age, Mulder just can't jump to conclusions the way he used to.

So you are an advocate for reverting society to a non-technological subsistence living then?
Innovations in efficiency do cause issues for individuals on the short term scales, but do wonders for society over the long term.
After all, that's why we aren't just scattered tribes of hunters & gatherers and can now use increasing amounts of our capability for other endeavors. You know, like this internet thingie that allows us to communicate like this over vast differences in location and time. :P

A lot of people were predicting this type of problem back when certs were being pushed out and proclaimed to be the solution to security.
(There have been numerous other issues of fraudulent certs, but I don't think they were as large as Google.)

Or due to the lack of participation of women in programming any expectation of them to have an equal representation in projects by that field is just plain stupid.
The real issue is the lack of women that are programmers, not that they don't have an equal influence on the results despite only being a small percentage.
Face it, if one group is only 10% of the workforce, you can't expect them to have 50% of the credit.