I expect to be downmodded to the lowest level of turtles, but I think it is the idea of since today, dancing is quite popular, and that if they can get young girls to think that programmers dance all day, they might decide to become programmers.

I mean Beyonce is a programmer right?

Plus, nothing ever got done before the intertoobz. It was impossible.

So the bean counters and shareholders can check up on them and make sure they are serving them in the cheapest and most profitible way possible?

Then later the IOTs can control your refrigerator and stove for maximum efficiency.

1. Find out what the Democrats want to do.

2. Denounce and oppose it.

The base iPad Mini 2 lists at $299 and was as low as $229 during recent sales; the N1 is launching at $249.

Well, someone did DDOS their entire country offline, taking down their official news outlets etc, so apparently they do need some kind of cyber security force.

In fact they do have an internal network, used by universities and companies, and a 3G mobile network. There is something to defend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Howzabout no provocation. When the prosecution got hold of the video refuting everything they said happened, teh lying, and the completely unnescessary violence and needless property damage, the prosecution dropped charges, and the police were put on trial. Watch the whole thing, it was shown that they started going on the resisting arrest rant, busting out the windows, punching the guy, and accusing him of "tring to grab my gun" while his hands were up.

Then again, I suspect with your ridiculous, "Cite a single case" comment, you fully approve of the way they handled this, the way they hid the evidence, don't ya?

Hey, here's another one for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh yeah, I'll bet that lady cop doing the strip search had a good time, especially since she used the same glove to insert her finger up the woman's vagina after she stuck it up the woman's rectum

Enjoy, and Merry Fsstivus.

Most mammals can see color. They (except some primates) are colorblind in the sense that they can't tell the difference between red and green, but they can tell the difference between red and blue. Because of the similarites in the proteins expressed, it is believed that human ancestors inherited a mutated gene for red that had a peak receptivity at green together with the original red gene from another parent. That's why most people now have both red and green cones.

I wouldn't bet on it. North Korea wouldn't be able to take us in a conventional war, but they would inflict pretty severe casualties on us and our South Korean allies.

Considering what we learned from Edward Snowden I'd say this is actually the absolute minimum I'd expect them to be doing. When your enemy is the United States, obviously you are going to have strong cyber defence.

I have a similar idea. How about I buy a plane ticket to fly over and hit some sense into your silly head, and once you gain more sense, then you can dock 2% of your income to repay me the plane ticket. Sounds fair?

European countries consider themselves more free than the US, it's just that they have a different concept of what freedom is.

In Europe freedom is seen as a two sided coin. You have negative freedom, that is freedom from interference and limits on your behaviour. That includes freedom of speech. Then you have positive freedom, the freedom to participate in society and to prosper. That includes things like the right to vote, the right to a family life, and the right to education.

In the US you can protest loudly outside someone's home day and night. Some people go and protest at the funerals of soldiers, and good natured bikers have to come and form a line to keep them away. In Europe that kind of thing would clash with a person's freedom to have a private life, i.e. to privately grieve for their loved on at the funeral.

We also see the right to a private life clashing with US company's desire to profile everyone and use their personal data for commercial gain, which Europeans consider to be a massive loss of freedom but Americans consider to be a corporation exercising its free speech rights.

What makes it suspicious is that the hackers seem to have access to Sony's system for an extended period of time before going public. If their goal was to prevent the release of this movie they left it rather late in the day. It doesn't seem to have been their primary goal, and in fact they tried to extort money out of Sony first which seems like an odd thing for a nation state to do.

The only evidence that the FBI has offered are some Korean strings, which by themselves tell us very little.

Could easily have been individuals using NK as cover, or perhaps even genuinely supporting NK. Just like the DDOSing of the DPRK could have been the US, or it could just have been a bunch of Anonymous asshats seizing an opportunity to do some semi-legitimate cyber-warfare.

Which is why we can't believe the US either. It's Iraqi WMD all over again, a lie designed to create an excuse for an attack.