It might also have to be a sustained disruption. I've messed with timing signals on a car before and they sputter and gag, but only if the signal is messed up for a sustained period do they die. Pistons will keep pumping even through a few misfires...

My plan is almost complete! MUAHAHAHA

http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image-of-James-bond-spaceships.png

ALT - (Photo is from James Bond, US Space ship getting eaten by Spectre ship in an attempt at starting world war)

“Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”

http://www.wcl.american.edu/lawandgov/cgs/about.cfm#scorecard -- Kind of a useless measurement if it's not comparative, but there is LOTS of data there, and most of it indicates that despite the fact that the NSA spying programs were "revealed" during Obama's administration (they existed for Bush too!) -- There are good signs that the government is taking steps towards better transparency as promised, and progress in this area has been ongoing, making the "most transparent" statement a true one, but leaving a long way to go to be desired.

Here is the old page on the way back machine if you want to see it -- http://web.archive.org/web/20130806180833/http://www.internet.org/

1. "sky-high support fees" -- 9 straight wins in JD Powers customer satisfaction surveys, free support
2. "snaky sales pitches" -- Apple doesn't hard sell? Not really appropriate.
3. "bait-and-switch" -- Bought iPhone... got iPhone? (?)
4. "Failure to patch Java Holes" -- Well, they have stopped including Java with OSX because of the security holes, so I guess that counts as "Patching"

With around 40% (or more) of the internet using Google Chrome, and around 2 billion individual internet users, we can round down and say that google chrome has around 700 million users.

I'm sure that at best the bug program might encourage 1000 security researchers (who weren't already using chrome) to use chrome...

So Google's "Con" would be to give away thousands of dollars in hopes of increasing their install base by 0.00001%

Or... they are simply "giving researchers more incentive"

Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of Chess?

http://www.globalthermonuclearwar.net/launch/index.html

Relevant link (god I suck at this - http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/)

In other news, threat condition is still Bert / Ernie.

Too big to fail?

So, right now the ratio of people who have trouble conceiving (a very delicate biological process) is 1 in 7... How do you think it will change when those 1 in 7 are now able to continue to propagate their genes into the gene pool? How many generations until natural birth will be no longer possible for most people, and we're all being born out of tubes...

Booty is i

Gag me with a spoon.

All philosophical pondering as to how science will effect the future to Hollywood movie script writers.