"They" is anyone who has the power to trigger the shutoff.

If that is the FBI, Homeland Security, Police, or even the Fire Department. Or Black Hat hackers, if it comes down to it.

Once it is in the hands of someone to use it to increase their power and control over others to achieve their goals, they will figure out a reason to use it.

Just as a sword incites someone to use it like a sword.

"The blade itself incites to acts of violence"

If you give someone a powerful tool, they will use it.

You didn't know all along... you worried about it, you feared for it, but you didn't know

Only retarded idiots like yourself do not KNOW the inevitable will occur.

It affects all other choices you make, which is sad for you.

We report, we decide.

Editing or putting a PSA in front of it removes the neutrality of the "news coverage"

At least with the PSA, I know the filter applied, with a takedown it is unclear.

It's ok. I am used to it.

Even better:

Don't let someone you don't know mess with your drink. Don't drink around people you don't know because alcohol reduces your ability to make good decisions.

I had a boring late teens early 20's... what can I say?

you don't need the rape drugs.

I'm an Elliptical Pisces,

what's your sign?

It will not ruin an eyepiece to brush your skin against it.

Getting it repositioned takes a lot of time? Surely you jest. A light touch with a finger and I can track any star/planet/deepsky on the Dobson. With setting circles, so I can find any object in a matter of about 30 seconds. With a 13.1 primary, there is not much I can't see from my backyard with the right filters.

The moon? I don't even use an eyepiece, I just hold up a white piece of cardboard and do a primary focus projection on it. Makes it about the size of a paper plate.

You can see my scope right here:

http://www.dobstuff.com/13-Rus...

Cost about the same as a MacAir laptop.

Ah... Now you see the logic of Empire.

Wow, that is so sad.

I can walk out tonight and see the rings with 10x50 binoculars or even the 300 zoom on the 35mm camera.

Put SkyEye on the tablet or the cell phone and it will lead you to the objects you want to see.

The Beehive is awesome in Summer, and Orion Nebula in Winter for easy objects to find.

If you had you'd realize (a) it's not reading memory from another app, and (b) it's attacking by presenting a dialog box while another app is open, something that you cannot do in an iOS app store ap.

Even if built-in nav services in phone used much data at all (they do not) you could still buy any number of offline map apps that require no data use at all.

But it's really better to use a connected navigation program, that can route you around traffic as needed.

They charge $600 for that GPS system in the car and I'm sure Garmin, Tom Tom, Magellan, & Nokia are lobbying to keep their turf safe.

Garmin & TomTom already make (expensive) navigation apps, so they really shouldn't care about the revenue source changing.

It's the car makers that get most of the cash from those way expensive in-car GPS systems (which are invariably horrible compared to the most modest GPS app).

Releasing the hostages for any amount of money would at the very least decry to the world that America loves and honors life

What good is helping one to hurt thousands. That is not valuing life at all.

It says exactly the opposite, that America cares so little for anyone's life that they are willing to encourage more kidnappings.

The true way to value a life is to say its worth is without measure, so you cannot demand money for it.