I've always wondered, why haven't electromagnets been utilized for escaping Earth's atmosphere? It's cheaper and more

The "security questions" weakness is exactly how Sarah Palin's email account was broken into.

If they're not required for logging in I always fill the security question answers with a long string of random characters, effectively making them unusable for password recovery.

I think that would more appropriately be worded as "paranoid clients won't touch them". Everyone else will. C'mon, this is the real world, not a classroom or security conference.

They person reporting the incident is probably one of those people who believes that data is stored in memory. Because memory is where things are remembered, right?

Oh, they knew. They had no choice, really. They needed a machine that could fully utilize the new 150Mbps FiOS connection they ordered.

... via PowerPoint?

You forgot to include the link to the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk

... and enter it with reckless abandon and no exit strategy; that last part is crucial.

Uh-oh!

That's called remote desktop/VNC/GoToMyPC/LogMeIn/et cetera.

Helping virus writers? Don't virus writers target the lowest-hanging fruit: the average Joe? Joe sure as hell doesn't read the Microsoft Knowledge Base, let alone knows of its very existence! Let's be realistic, here. This is coming from third-party AV companies, remember... they're fighting to stay relevant.

I really can't see why we can't have a government-commissioned open-source system developed and mandated for use for public voting functions.

I absolutely hate the thought of my vote being inputted in to a closed magical-mystery box.

This penetration has thrust a large mess of members in to a new position, one which they probably aren't familiar with (unless they get off on this kind of thing). It's sad the industry has shrunk to the force of Too Much Media, and has effectively been boned. If it's lucky, the authorities will slap the cuffs on TMM, throw them in the slammer, and make them eat kumquats.

Butt plugs.