Belief - "My dog is my best friend. My dog loves me!"

Reality - "You live alone with your dog. Your dog will be eating your remains 8 hours after you drop dead."

About 5 minutes after this is implemented, the protocols will be cracked. About 5 minutes later some prankster will be broadcasting the "kill" signal to every car in Paris from a lunchbox portable radio from the top of the Eiffel tower.

There is a levy on blank CDs. (I can't remember the last time I bought a spindle of CDs). It used to be about 30 cents a disk, which is insane considering bulk CD-R cost about 25 cents. At least they didn't go full retard and charge for MP3 players. At the time the levy was introduced, MP3 players were about 128 to 256 MB capacity and I can recall fees of $5 to $10 on MP3 players (based on 5 cents/Megabyte) being considered. The music industry would love to collect $800 on a 16GB ipod nano.

umm...do you remember the Windows cursor exploit? It was basically an unchecked buffer between the Win32 and NT kernel APIs that allowed a specifically crafted cursor file to run privileged code on the user's system. Since custom cursors are part of the CSS standard, every web browser on Windows that supported CSS implemented this feature and was vulnerable to the exploit by just visiting a page that specified the correctly crafted file in their stylesheet. It didn't require any user download or any of the usual attack vectors (ActiveX plugins, Java or scripting).

A common way to spread malware these days is to break into an adserver and upload an exploit to it. Then the exploit will be distributed across even well known and trusted sites which display ads from a third party service. Our workstations at work commonly get malware from users visiting news sites.

What I'm saying is that even the most cautious users can get owned without doing anything stupid...

As far as I know you cannot have an application request root on Android unless it's jailbroken. Only a few system apps have root access (like play store). Once the device is jailbroken there is a system app which can elevate root via a user dialog.

It is even worse than that with religious folk. All sorts of people will go into "Cognitive Dissonance" mode when their strongly held beliefs are challenged and some will refuse to change their beliefs no matter what evidence is presented. With religious people you get this plus also they are convinced that it is their faith (how strongly they cling to their beliefs - no matter what) that determines their reward in the afterlife. There is no point in attempting logical or evidence based discussions with someone like that.

Yes we do. How else could we type Mötörhead.

If your knees are hosed do something that doesn't aggravate them. Swim, ride a bike, paddle a canoe, do whatever it is that you can do. Otherwise, yes, you are just making excuses.

The medieval Christians had their list of the 7 Deadly Sins (Sins that may lead you to eternal damnation). Fat people are the living embodiment of 3 of them - Sloth, Greed and Gluttony. We look down on fat people because they offend our sensibilities at some deep, almost unconscious level, that we have as a bone deep part of our culture. (Not saying it's right, just saying why.)

Tell Him - No Foam please.

If transport trucks had to pay for their true share of the cost of road maintenance (based on your weight^4 calculation) you would see a massive shift of freight off the roads and onto rail. Trucks have been getting a free ride for far too long.

"sheer force of capital" - nice, I will have to steal that and use it sometime.

of godammit... OF

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You know the government is shut down. CNN is only showing re-runs or Piers Morgan interviewing Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones. At least there is comedy there and people might watch...