Well, thankfully I live in a country where it is virtually impossible to get into the predicament due to the special way our traffic lights work. You know 5 seconds before your green light goes to yellow that it's about to happen.

Actually I have on more than one occasion. Funny enough, never in front of a traffic light.

I don't know about your country, in mine it's easy: You rear end someone, you're guilty. Period. There is no good explanation you could possibly give why you couldn't keep enough distance that you had enough time to react and stop your vehicle before slamming into another one.

I know exactly one case that didn't end like this, and only because the rear-ending car could PROVE that the other one was slamming into him in reverse instead of the other way around.

Aww. You could've taken him for a ride and you let him get off this easily.

I'll invent a tool that allows you to kill people via a phone line. I could see a really HUGE market for something like this.

Yes they do. Scammers, like everyone who runs a business (and scamming is nothing else to them) need to make money with their time. All you have to do to be considered poison to them is to steal their time. That costs your time, too, once or twice, but usually after a few runs they'll never bother you again, simply because you're not worth the time.

Plus, it's fun to screw with them.

Actors who can copy the wooden acting faithfully. And Scotty's son playing Scotty with the same crappy fake Scottish accent.

Because I will slam the brakes to stop. NO matter what. No matter how fast I am. No matter how close the person behind me is. No matter whether I even KNOW that there will be an accident. I will stop instead of running the risk of entering the intersection on a red light. If I get rear ended, his insurance will pay. If I get a ticket, I have to pay.

Safety? It's about money. On BOTH ends of the matter.

Ticket: I have to pay.
Rear ended: His insurance will pay for it.

The choice is obvious. Fuck safety.

Be honest, no matter how much you love your work, would you do it without getting paid for it? I mean, I love IT security, but I would probably rather spend my time tinkering with exploits than wading through ISO guidelines and getting on everyone's nerve with them.

Just explain to me why an artist should be entitled to live off one single creation for the rest of his life while everyone else has to keep working to earn money.

Are you high? NK "take us out"? Where are you, South Korea?

Care to give us an idea how you think NK could "take us out"? I need a good laugh.

Sure the US want to export freedom to NK. Since there's not really any use for it anymore at home...

Pretty much this. This ain't some 9/11 stunt where it's a given that you'll get your head kicked in if you say you did it. This is something where NK could've given the US the middle finger and shown that their "virtual army" is a force that should not be ignored.

Why should NK not claim they did it? Because of international backlash? Please. Because they fear retaliation from the US? Bluntly, if NK had the power to pull something like this off, they would not have to fear retaliation.

The problem is, where is my incentive to ever create again if I can milk what I already created forever?

Let's say you are someone not unlike Mozart. A once-a-century, if not once-a-millennium, prodigy whose music has the ability to enchant and entertain people for centuries to come. Mozart was, when you read his bio, a lazy, hedonistic bum. Essentially he was writing music when he had to pay his bills.

Just imagine how much we'd have from him if the royalties from his "Magic Flute" would've paid for his lifestyle.

So is the bricklayer that built my house. I can't remember paying him a dime in the last 20 or so years, though.