For the record, the first impediment I encountered was requiring a valid credit card to establish a free account.

15 years..... some of the users they're trying to monetize weren't born when dyndns started this deal.

This is one of the more compelling arguments for national standards where local administration would have the excuse that they were "forced" to follow imposed guidelines. Otherwise, every nutter in the community will rally to tar and feather the administration.

Shutting down IFR research to indulge nuclear hysteria? Democrats
Shutting down Yucca Mountain with no scientific justification? Democrats
Cancelling the Superconducting Super Collider? Democrats

We could have had the Higgs Boson over 15 years ago. We got Clinton instead.

Keep knock'n back that kool-aid son.

Everybody I hang with in Minnesota loves Klobuchar. She has that nerd girl with glasses look and does photo ops out bicycling with the family. Probably eats granola. Always AWOL on any serious issue where anybody might have a different view so she'd have to defend herself on a reelection, she's always present for the photo op when she brings some tax money back for a women's shelter or something. In other words, the definitional example of a pork barrel populist. My point being that people in Minnesota who consider themselves Democrats and "progressive" seem happy with her _image_, so don't expect any blow back on this _issue_. And it highlights the embarrassing point that Democrats aren't much deeper than FOX Republicans.

New Orleans had several days of warning. Not hours.

But yeah. Bush's fault. And stuff.

Broken. Right there. The only worthwhile solution has no transfer of payment instrument credentials. None, ever. No numbers, no PINs, no CVVs, no expiration dates. Nothing.

That's done with a broker. That's how Paypal works and that's how Bitcoin works. The fact that credit cards don't work that way is indifference on the part of banks. Banks fail to provide and alternative to handing over the keys to random and sundry knuckleheads and their insecure systems.

Until transactions are performed through a bank run broker such that the retailer NEVER GETS THEIR PAWS ON ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS, it's all a waste of time. I blame the banks; Target episodes are inevitable as long as the banks fail to provide an alternative to having retailers schlep around account credentials.

The Supreme Court obviated all such laws ("sodomy", etc.) in 2003. California could pass such a law, but it would be found unconstitutional rather quickly. Also, as history has demonstrated, anti-homosexual laws can't pass in California; California voters and their representatives don't support such laws, either as ballot initiatives or as bills in the legislature. The reason you don't understand this is because you been trained to conflate opposition to gay marriage with hate for homosexuality.

A stupid question instantly modded +5.... if there is a mod-point cabal, you are certainly involved.

But go ahead, keep attributing opposition to the Koch brothers or some other libtard boogeyman. The more time you spend barking up the wrong tree the better.

This "food security" tripe has been the rationale for more laws and taxes by the exact same bunch of statists that have us burning 40% of our corn crop for fuel. The fact that more people see through this nonsense isn't terribly mysterious.

They would have "missed" Tsarnaev if he had a siren and a pink neon "TERRORIST" sign bolted to his forehead. Re: Nidal Hasan.

They only miss things they aren't interested in finding.

They also want don't want a hostile government in Ukraine governing over the gas and oil pipelines that run through Ukraine to the rest of Europe.

The regulars of Slashdot have no difficultly connecting every single policy or action of the US to oil. When Putin and the Russians pull something, however, they get the benefit of the doubt and no rationalization is too outrageous or implausible to be offered.

As for this thread generally; I've seen a few of these "I thought we were better than this now" replies since Putin moved on Crimea. It's frustrating that peace and prosperity produces such naivety. We've accumulated about 60 years worth of la-la land mentality and it's not good for us.

So go on Putin. Start some shit. We need it.

Yet there is Mark Shuttleworth, replying the same day to this supposedly "personal" blog with:

But hey... that's Google+, not ubuntu.com or whatever, so that's got nothing to do with Canonical either. Right?

Unfairly tough and racially biased requirements are whatever is required of or tested for among people that are employed by some segment of the workforce that exhibits an incorrect ratio of racial participation.

For example, since New York fire department minority applicants tended to fail the entrance exam at a higher rate than white applicants the entrance examine is, by definition, racially biased. When medical school requirements are found to impede racial quotas the solution is to create separate standards by race that specify "adjusted" MCAT and GPA figures to correct for systemic bias. The fact that the scores required of black/latino students are significantly lower than those of white/asian students DOES NOT INDICATE A LOWERING OF STANDARDS. Oh no. Rather, the lower score reflect the degree of inherent racial bias in the education system.

Got it?

The IT industry has escaped the good graces of contemporary racial justice for too long, as illustrated by your naivety. We welcome the good Reverend Jackson to the den of racial iniquity that is Silicon Valley and we look forward to the application of racial fairness we know he'll provide, and we're certain you do as well.

If minority candidates aren't qualified then the problem is unfairly tough and racially biased requirements. Get your mind right.

If you had checked anytime since about 1976 you might have discovered this.