Wow. As much as I liked the TED talks the guy gave that put him firmly in the anti-NSA camp, I wonder what his scruples say about this potential conflict of interest (considering how much info Angry Birds sends back to the mothership...). If you weren't already at +5 I would mod you up.

Money's a bad consideration. Death Row inmates cost more than regular life-sentence inmates to house.

I've found the correct response is, "You've got it all wrong. It's not the dress that makes you look good, it's you that makes the dress look amazing."

What, can't be bothered to do a Repair Install? Sure, it's not a silver bullet and it takes longer than SFC, but it works great most of the time, and at least in XP you could do it without having to fully boot to the installed OS. I've found SFC to be fairly useless in 7 as well.

Of course, if I ever have to press F6 to load a driver from a floppy disk again, it will be too soon.

Probably because there's no power source to drive the device over a standard ethernet connection. A powered data cable that can capture keystrokes vs. a network cable that captures whole packets and must contain some kind of SOC that would need some kind of wireless power or a tiny lithium battery and frequent swapping isn't nearly the same level of feasibility or usefulness.

Also consider the horrendous difficulty of getting through automated HR scanner processes. You have to win Buzzword Bingo, and then you have to be matched to a position the company is actively looking to fill.

That's a nerve-wracking experience in the best of times; however, if you've got somebody inside the company actively tracking your application status and staying on the HR people not to let it fall through the cracks, that's a big benefit to your sanity and your chances of successfully landing a new employer.

Wii controller being what it is, I thought there was more call for military grade televisions.

I'll get my coat.

I can't believe nobody else has mentioned this. This is probably half the NSA's fault, for making proper security in any context very difficult (the other half of course is the SCADA manufacturer's fault for not building good security in from the factory). NSA wants juicy secrets from a few international groups, and thereby exposes our entire infrastructure to international malice. It's as simple as the tipping point where the engineer/manager says "Well all the security products available suck anyway, might as well save my budget and the hassle of another network middleman."

Ahem.

See also: Roving Bug

This just in: Alienware machines are overpriced.

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Alternatively, if the van was self-driving, it could park in a place where it is not obstructing useful visibility, and then come driving back when needed. Imagine getting rid of garages and instead having local car parks with modest parking fees. Put your kitchen/pantry in the old garage space for dropping off regular food supplies.

On Killing and On Combat are probably what it's based on

Use a search anonymizer. Replace your Google search provider in the browser with a less intrusive data-mining version of the service. Use it for patient searches instead of direct Google. Done.

Not to mention the other uses besides the biological intake. People forget that the US Constitution is written on hemp parchment. The list of uses for hemp fibers is astounding, and for us to shoot ourselves in the foot by denying ourselves use of such a prolific crop is a huge disadvantage economically. It's almost as stupid as if we were to ban silicon chips and thus electronics because kids get fat playing video games.

One would hope a bit of judicious word choice would be employed as appropriate. I do have to wonder how often the undeserved negatives you're concerned about would actually be found here - if it's a real problem, that would be the real story IMHO. These are offenses which even the Blue Line has not protected them from, let's recall. I don't like the idea of throwing a good cop under the bus for something minor, but if it was a firing infraction I'd say name-and-shame is the right way to counteract the hubris and "Judge Dredd" attitude a lot of cops seem to have.

Being a cop is hard. It's a calling many are not up to. And yes, they all make mistakes at some point. But the reason it's hard is because it's so important to get it right. You screw it up bad enough to get fired over it - sorry, but your best use is as an example to the remaining officers, and prospective officers, of what they're not going to get away with. "Who watches the watchers?" It has to be us, or there is no accountability, without which the regular citizens become second-class victims-to-be.