Imagine if the Justice League met as super-powered children instead of adults. And their gym teacher was Darkseid. And Batman and Superman pretending to be Spider-man with the mouth sound effects (Tchoo!) Its sweet without being over-bearing and hits that perfect note of what it is to be children.

http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/

I've supported one Kickstarter because it was a photography project by a friend who is a professional photographer, i.e. he's been published in Time magazine. I supported it because it was a thoughtful project with a timeline and real deadlines. Once the funding was met and he started the project, he gave status updates every few days and completed the project on time. I was happy to participate.

Every other offer that's been solicited by friends I've turned down. The most recent one, which did get funding, was a friend who started a handmade clothing company. This person is the CEO and chief designer. The company has had 3 employees on and off over the last 3 years. A shipping deadline was missed last Christmas to deliver handbags, scarves and laptop bags. This person has taken donations from friends and family and given them receipts so they can claim them on their taxes, but the company is not a 503c. The Facebook message from the launch was "If this doesn't get funded, my company is going out of business."

I feel like Kickstarter is a great idea, but the latter has become the norm for me. "I've completely screwed up as an owner, but I'm not really begging if its on Kickstarter." Or "I have this idea, but I have no idea how to execute it but I need money, off to Kickstarter!"

The booths in Illinois with "no human operator present" existed before I-PASS became so dominant. I remember running a few toll baskets in the suburbs in 2000 because I didn't have any change.

Or emit Lucas smoke.

Ummm, Guppy? You didn't post anonymously.

Albeit, this isn't new(we suspended a lot of rights during WWII, at least. see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment [wikipedia.org] ), but we just need to get rid of this idea)
Yeah, the Americans weren't the only ones to intern ethnically Japanese portions of the population. The Canadians did as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Canadian_internment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obasan

Hmmm, condenses my thoughts on the subject into two succinct sentences. Well done.

You'll have to be more specific. Everything's sinful in Utah.

Wasn't this every CS department though in the 80's and the 90's? AI in that time was all about expert systems and predicate calculus.

"It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation," which eschews parentheses and equal signs in an effort to run long calculations more efficiently."
I didn't know RPN was an operating system. Perhaps that's what they mean by unconventional.

UPS and the EPA announced something very similar two years ago.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-28/tech/ups.hybrid.trucks_1_hybrid-trucks-hydraulic-hybrid-hydraulic-fluid?_s=PM:TECH

The keyword seems to be "oversight," or lack thereof. "Ed" was one of six workers at a $250 million retailer in Pa. "Ed" has a boss and he/she only had to look after 6 people. Six people! How do you not know what Ed is doing? And as a company that has $250 million in revenue, how are there only six people?

"Sally" had "privilege escalation" at a Fortune 500 company. Why? Because she puts out fire and was "special." She worked from home. Where was her boss in all this? Why didn't that person realize that perhaps "Sally" shouldn't have had "privilege escalation?"

In all of this, where were the managers? Aren't they supposed to manage resource? Shouldn't they be held accountable for lack of oversight?

This isn't true though. For example, CVE-2010-0840 is a Java hashmap vulnerability that has been used, in the wild. "A user only needs to browse to an infected webpage, and the exploit pulls down a series of .exe files" http://ics.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9916 http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.A&threatid=2147640548

Why would we declare war on an Ivy League school?

I couldn't say it any better myself and if I had moderator points I'd give you some. Its not just "normal" students who fall into the trap of calling anything related to a computer "Computer Science".