Nothing ironic about it; but it's so amazingly impersonal.

Walmart has lines like that at a location near me; it's always filled with trailer trash rednecks.

The smart move is to cut YouCut, because your Congressman should already be cutting the crap you dislike,

Being information brokers will likely mean their public funds would disappear; a charging for leaked documents would find them dead in a short period of time.

WikiLeaks has the right approach, for good or bad. You want to run with the big boys you can't do it in the shadows.

Sounds like a completely bullshit reason.

Get a military ordinance disposal team in place and demolish it if you really have to, but burning it? That's just looking to create a disaster.

Just keep shoving the toothpaste back into the tube

Large pieces of OAK were used, and OAK trees don't grow all that fast.

Bet it has a tag on it that says 'Made in China'.

They are shining an ultraviolet light on the trees, with the gold particles they are glowing red by transforming the ultraviolet to red light.

neat, but kinda useless as ultraviolet is dangerous. (not useless on a small scale; but you can't go and light up a neighbourhood with ultraviolet)

Don't distribute copyrighted material on the internet without permission?

When you do, don't purger yourself and destroy the evidence after you receive a subpoena.

When you lose, but there is another offer on the table, seriously consider taking it; particularly if you've puregerred yourself and destroyed evidence.

Don't claim your innocence and disregard your responsibility after you've puregerred yourself and destroyed evidence.

PEEK, POKE, SYS

Probably a couple others in particular dialects. (LOAD, as implemented on Commodore is an issue as well).

Really, BASIC isn't even close to secure by default.

I limit myself to two bits. A 0 and a 1.

Why would I need 8?

Not really an issue, they were probably the default codes anyway; i mean, why not, that's what they used at the minuteman silos anyway.

Is that what constitutes a review today?

It reads like an ad for Toshiba. The battery life wasn't compared, they performed a test, declared it awful while acknowledging the test was completely unfair and they didn't do the same on the other devices compared. Statements like that in an article are intended to put a bad taste in someones mouth, while its dismissal is intended to imply they are being fair by not using it in the comparison.

Complete lack of professionalism.

Because, point of fact, they do not know how to be responsible with it.

A professors priority is his/her research.

If the professor was held solely responsible for the data in the eyes of the law then there probably would not be an issue. Instead the organization that actually owns the facilities is responsible for it.
Professors are employees. I know they don't like to consider themselves as such, but they keep accepting paycheques and using the facilities.

When you are the legal entity responsible for the data you get to draw up the rules.
And, while these types of people like to think they are above and beyond rules and regulations the equipment they use is not their personal property. Property purchased, supplied, or on the premises of such an organization is subject to the rules and regulations.

This stuff isn't a game. It's not about building pyramids, pleasing egos, or otherwise.

By the way, being responsible for a couple million dollars / year is jack-squate when you risk significant fines per record per incident; never mind revocation of said grants because of violations.