Because nobody could ever hook up an ARM SBC to the LVDS connector on a 17" laptop and play a video to fake a boot sequence that would fool a telemarketer in purple gloves, leaving the rest of the case available for whatever can be molded into plastic.

Because TSA is there to protect us from imbicilic terrorists, even though 9/11 was orchestrated by degreed engineers, physicians, etc.?

Or just maybe it's not about terrorists but rather obedience conditioning, and they need a new rule once in a while to keep the people regressing (from presumption of Constitutional rights).

Only one of those hypotheses fits the data.

look into the research from Walter Reed hospital - only part of the brain is asleep. The rest of the brain experiences everything and really screws a lot of people up. Always get general plus spinal.

I remember a few years ago when a big US university rejected Gmail because they could not ensure US-only storage of data and they had data -privacy concerns about the foreign governments (whoops).

At this point I don't really care if my data is in Belarussian hands because they cannot hurt me. Russians should likewise consider wanting to store their data ovetseas.

yeah, Lessig always correctly identifies the corruption thst results ftom power being for sale, and then he proposes creating more power to solve it, 'cause, honest, it'll be different this time. He and his well-meaning friends will make sure of that.

false claim of title is already illegal - the victim should also seek restitution for disparagement of his good name. Make the bastards pay or they'll be back again tomorrow.

the current Internet is popular with the criminal element but we're not going to stop using it for that reason. Same for cash, guns, and safes.

Is the Doppler Weather signal not modulated so that error correction can be performed? This safety system is vulnerable to simple unintentional analog interference? Can somebody please send over an RF engineer?

Linux Journal, really? The real extremists are over at LWN. And by extremists, I mean those who are extremely good at what they do.

Anyway, while the NSA is searching nerd sites for terrorists, the FBI has been caught covering up for Saudi terrorists.

Right, those that have sex with a partner and those that don't.

Makes it easy - rent one giant auditorium and one meeting room.

About $10 billion has already be spent, almost all on administrative and legal costs.

This is so crazy you'd think lawyers and bureaucrats dreamt it up.

No public figure exception? Our bad.

WONTFIX/WORKSFORME

Not always. I recently bought an Ikea coffee table, and was surprised to find that my laser mouse does not work accurately on it. It does work, to a degree, but the cursor skips around the screen a lot, so it's clearly not properly tracking the surface. I put down a mouse pad and all is well again, so it's definitely an issue with the Ikea table and not something else like Bluetooth range, battery charge, etc. The coffee table in question is the Lack, and the mouse is the Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, if anyone wants to try to re-create this.

And why do we still have antiquated data lines and switches and whatnot when we are paying through the nose for internet access?

Government bans competition. You can't very well expect an agency that claims a "natural monopoly" to not consider other "natural monopolies" both wise and judicious.

Community fiber is still the answer - there are just so many hurdles that make it slow in coming.

Hit the gas when the pedestrian light goes to red,and you'll be running a red light.

Right - this is what I came here to say. Is this not universal? It's been like that in every country I've been in and across the several United States.

If people are running red lights *from a stop* then beeping crosswalk signs aren't going to solve the problem. I'm sympathetic to people who get nailed by red-light cameras at artificially-short yellow lights, but not people who are starting from zero into reds at crosswalks.

JHFC, people, stop consuming poison and get your heads right. We have a mental illness problem here masquerading as a traffic engineering problem.