I think the message was supposed to be "Don't make up crap (especially plausible crap), or people will stop believing you even when it's true." In other words, you're hurting your own cause (and your own personal safety), by claiming something is happening when it isn't, even if it *could* be happening. And yeah, I think he meant The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

I don't think it works like that. Instead, the system is set up to dial far more numbers than they have humans to actually talk to people. The idea is that it keeps their employees constantly busy. It's worth the dropped calls to minimize employee downtime (and thus employee numbers and thus expenses), since after all the robodialer will just call you again later if it misses you this time.

Not necessarily. He's playing the game the way it has to be played now, according to the law. He'd like the law changed. That doesn't make him a hypocrite unless he honestly doesn't think the new law would apply to him. For patient laws to be changed some of the big players are going to have to make the move to change them, and it's hard to see how that's going to happen since it would invalidate patient chests that have cost, in some cases, billions of dollars to acquire. So if Bezos is serious about this, I'm going to have to buy some books from him again.

I may be misjudging you here, and for that I apologize, but I was nodding along with your post until it became a not so subtle attack on one side of the political spectrum. The thing is, I know "Nutcase A's" that are just as vehement in their support for Obama. Different alternate histories, but the same fervor and delusion. So my question to you is, did you not notice those guys the last rally that you were at?

Seriously. Since the OP posts on Slashdot, presumably he understands the Streisand effect. Practically no one was paying attention to the remake before you called attention to it here. Just roll with it and understand that more people are mocking this guy than believing him. If that just won't sit well with you, then you need to consult a lawyer versed in internet law -- though preferably not the one that tried to sue TheOatmeal....

You would be wrong. Several of my highly intelligent but not computer savvy friends have no problem using Steam routinely, but applying a crack? Might as well be black magic to them. Even just moving a file from folder to folder fills them with dread. I think you are falling into the trap of thinking you are familiar with something that you are not. Since you don't use Steam, you have no idea how user friendly or not it is.

Why do you say that like it was a bad thing? You might as well say I use the steering wheel while driving to avoid the "repercussion" of wrapping around a tree. Except in this case the repercussions brought on by an increasingly nosy government/private watchdog/church/employer whatever can be far, far worse than that.

He was talking about the next phase Medusoid, which he plans to make with human heart tissue. You didn't RTFA, did you?

Except that Mercury's sun side is 150 degrees Centigrade warmer than Venus (630 versus 480).

no, if someone is making money by providing service from state to state it IS interstate commerce. It's not a wild card, its critical to have separate states that need to fall under one umbrella.

DO you want California being able to force a charge for goods or services that go to your state from a port in CA? Hmm, this goes to Texas? they get to pay a 'dumbass Texas' fee. Going to Oregon? oh, well no fee for them.

Don't be angry at that clause, it's needed. Be angry at the people who want to use it without needing warrants.

George W. Bush spent most of his academic career in private schools in New England.

That is very well and good until SP1 comes out.

Which should give the ingenious folks who developed the cracks that it is supposed to detect to find a way of working around it... a kernel patch that causes the unpatched original files to be presented when it tries to open them, or some such hack.