So how about when they're flying aircraft that cost more than their LIFETIME salary, plus retirement, medical, dental, and housing? How much is a B-1 bomber?

For that kind of money, plus what we spend on each soldier's armor, training, etc., I think we are approaching a point where it will be less costly, in money and American soldiers' lives, to simply develop and field battle-droids. Also, remember the dark side: any technology that is developed and fielded by our military is in the hands of our government, and may be used at some point by them to oppress the people. Think it can't happen?

Use a read-only drive for your OS, such as booting from a live Linux distro, then websurf from there. When you're done, turn off the computer. Poof. Histroy, cookies, flashcookies, 'nillacookies, all gone. :)

The fact that bacteria != viruses.

If you ever want to quick-format your 90GB livedrive, just give it a a quick squirt of hand sanitizer, or disinfectant spray!

The article doesn't mention that at some point during the sale, the seller said something like "If you can find a better deal on this mower, I'll eat my beard!"

Don't use facebook. Seriously though, why would you allow random strangers to post stuff on your page? Wouldn't making your facebook page private/by invitation only prevent these problems?

Japanese university students succeed in creating worlds smallest cyborg thinking-machine robots. Fleshy, squishy micro-borg can now outdo me in Sudoku?!? RUN! FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!

I think they might, for a few femptoseconds see a formation of particles that could, from the right angle, be mistaken for the words, "We're sorry but the universe does not have imagery at that zoom level." Or, just possibly, "We apologize for the inconvenience."

is insignificant compared to the power of the force...

Forgive me if I missed any embedded sarcasm, but you do know I was kidding, right?

Thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!!! -Exxon.

"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords..." - "The Operative"

That's what you get for buying into the idea of the moderated, controlled app store. Someone can control what you can put on what is supposed to be YOUR machine. That's why I won't own any Cripple products, like the iFad, iTampon, iPhony, nor will I buy a Sony Gaystation, nor any AndroidBS based equipment, etc. If I own it, I can do whatever the fuck I want with it, that's the rule. If your system is designed to allow someone else to restrict what I can do, then fuck you and fuck your system. I have a PC with Linux, and I do what the fuck I want with it. I dual boot into WinDOS to play games, (just about all it's good for) and eschew anything with a "marketplace," for that exact reason. The DMCA (Disgusting Money Control Act) and the people who use/abuse it have the ability to stop you from doing what you want, but not me. Want the latest, hotest movies, music, etc., FREE? Don't *download* them or get them from a "market," etc., just share amongst yourselves. When I was a kid and played games, my friends and I had a neat way of not all having to pay the outrageous cost of buying them. We simply traded them. When I got tired of playing Ultima III, for example, I traded it to someone for BardsTale II, and he got Ultima III in exchange for BardsTale II, etc. Sure, ONE of us had to pay for any given copy of a title, but we didn't ALL have to pay, and no one could have sued any of us because there was no electronic trail for some bitch-shyster to follow. End-of-Rant.

You can mine my movements all you want, you can even sell the info to the highest bidder, but it's worthless, I assure you. I cannot be marketed to in this way, I don't click on ads on my computer unless I am personally searching for a product... basically, to use an old analogy, I don't buy anything over the phone unless I initiated the call. So there is no way for you to get money out of me, more effectively, or indeed at all, by simply knowing my location. Sorry, you can't do it. Knowing where I am and attempting to bombard me with advertisements won't work. I am fairly confident I am not the only one who defends his hard-earned dollars that way, so the people who might sell this information are tricking the assholes who might pay for it, and so I just have to laugh, since what's being sold is utterly worthless as far as I am concerned. They might as well be making the information up.