You mean the bank crashes where the monetary authorities stepped in and no depositors lost even a single penny? That one?

said the Windows 8.1 update will come with improvements for non-touch devices

What a fantastic strategy -- to put a few afterthoughts into 99% of their market...

It'll be hackers and the Chinese military that brick these American smartphones before the NSA does.

(Casselton, North Dakota anyone?)

Lac-Megantic, Quebec anyone? One thing about pipelines is that they don't tend to go through the centers of every small town along their route.

And what happens to the insurance companies if they get it all wrong using the runaway greenhouse model? (Answer: record profits!)

and placing trust in an experiment or model's results only as far as

Experiments and models are very different things. Experiments test how well your model matches the actual universe. Models test how well your model matches your model.

I'd say that we should be tazing texters, physically beating serial talkers, and reserving the instant death penalty for people who answer their cell phones.

How can I vote for you?

In one week will we be reading about how country X is sending an icebreaker to free the three stuck icebreakers?

It'll be Canada to show you amateurs how it's done.

A math teacher would lose his job if he taught kids that 2+2=5.

No, he wouldn't; he'd be protected by his union.

AGW is also a theory

At this stage, it's only an hypothesis.

AGW is a complex thing - there will be no one conclusive experiment that confirms or blows the whole thing.

AGW has exactly one experiment (computer models are not experiments; they are just expressions of their models), and its results will only be known in retrospect a couple hundred years from now. But even then, they will need to untangle dozens of extraneous factors from the results before drawing any conclusions.

Why are variables called "bool"s instead of "leib"s?

Car, scooter, bicycle? Something with wheels.

The COBOL program should be subtracting 06 from 13 giving 7!

And all of your stuff is right behind your locked door that's easily picked. That means you want other people to take your stuff since you don't live inside a vault. But even then, some highly-skilled people would still be allowed to take your stuff. Unless, of course, you actually DON'T WANT THEM TO. Then taking your stuff is illegal.

There is also being an asshole who is stealing stuff.