Right. The data is flawed, so we're going to make up our own, er, I mean extrapolate. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Funny, I'd be happier if they were trawling the internet for info instead of trolling.

Pray tell how this situation is cyberbulling?

Except, this isn't a case of cyber bullying. It's a case of mutually engaged "sexting" via facebook chat that occured at home. One parent found out, and called out the dogs on the other kid involved (btw, why wasn't the accuser's kid also punished, if this was about sexting?).

I'll have to agree with the above. I had my first job at 15. I paid income tax, medicare, FICA, social security and all that jazz. I was pissed. So, I wrote "my" Senator and & representative. All I got back was a form letter about the importance of Americans paying their taxes, which flies in the face of one of the founding principles of the country: "no taxation without representation". Needless to say, I did not vote for either one of those people once I was able.

Intimidation and coercion does not make consent.

Having RTFA'd, I didn't see anywhere mentioned that their was imagery shared. As such, child pornography would not apply. Apparently, they were both under the applicable age of consent, so underage solicitation would not apply. Even if either or both of those occurred, if it did not take place on school grounds, with school resources, why the hell was the school ever involved? This sounds to me like bad parents that don't know how/are unwilling to confront and punish their child for behavior they find unacceptable. From what I've read, the school never should have been involved, and has no business being involved.

Additionally, even if there was a suspicion of child pornography, a proper warrant would still be required to conduct the search.

Yes, I have. Most recently, I've been playing Titanfall. Great game, very fun and the community is actually fine. Sure, occasionally there is some cursing, but very little. And what little there is usually out of excitement or surprise. I think I've only heard one person that was actually swearing *at* someone.

I've been on Live for a while (45k gamerscore) and have a 5/5 reputation. It's not hard. Be a team player and don't be a dick. I do give positive feedback (yes, it is possible, I forget how it's phrased, but it's something like "I prefer to play with this person"). The only time I give negative feedback is for repeated abusive behavior such as team-killing or extremely foul language. An occasional shit, fuck or asshole doesn't bother me. I'm talking about language I wouldn't use even on slashdot.

Even if true, unless it was being done at school, why is the school involved?

Yes, but your post is (somewhat) contradictory with the title; I'm not saying I disagree with you in principle. I'm not saying the idea is contradictory, the endgame is. You propose patenting something for which there is plentiful prior art (patent reform). You're by far from the first to propose such reforms to patents (just search slashdot for "patent" - you're probably liable to timeout waiting for the results).

My point is that if patent reform were passed as you propose, your patent itself would be invalid, hence not even a zero sum game: you would lose (in regards to the hypothetical patent in question). It would cost you more to file it, and possibly defend, then you could ever realistically expect to collect on. Now, you might be able to claim moral victory, but you still lose.

Why? You'll never have an opportunity to sue for infringement!

Middle of nowhere? I see it in the middle of town all the time. Worse yet, it's pretty frequent to see the cops do it, too (lights/siren off).

It seems to me that perhaps the brakes on the Tesla might be underpowered, or perhaps there is an engineering flaw in that the electric motor continues to apply power when the brake is also applied. The whole "point" to applying both gas & brake at the same time in an ICE car is to get the ICE into a more favorable position in the power band (best power output is usually somewhere in the 4K-6K RPM range, depending on the engine/car/configuration). Doing so in an electric car is pointless, as they essentially have a constant max torque across a wide RPM range (sadly it's lacking a citation or a graphical).

I was in an accident about 15 years ago, where I was in an '88 Chevy S-10 Blazer. When I got rear-ended and spun, I slammed on the brakes. When I finally came to my senses (a few seconds after I stopped), I realized the engine was racing. I'd slammed down on both the brake and the gas pedal, but I was stopped. And I have small (size 8, men's) feet. That was the only time I'd ever hit both pedals and it was in the middle of an accident, and I didn't have time to correct. But, the mistake didn't make things any worse.

While it is supported, and RH claims backwards compatibility, they do have an annoying habit of breaking things. I remember going from a point minor version of RHEL 5 (I think it was 5.5 to 5.6; it might have been an earlier release) to the next, and they broke the behavior of semaphores. In the prior version, a "sem_wait" would block until the semaphore was signaled, in the next version, it'd indicate errno EAGAIN. This was an unexpected change and required code changes for my company's apps at the time to busy wait when trying to acquire a semaphore.

I would posit: not many. Cancer is the leading cause today. One might call it a ticking DNA time bomb. Who's to say there isn't another lurking?

Besides, even if cancer can be cured, can you cure other self-inflicted "diseases"?