Don't put all legally blind people into the same box. I find pretty much any tablet a delight to use. I'm extremely near-sighted (20/200 in the *good* eye) but I can put the tablet as close to my face as I need. Pinch/spread zooming works for the sites with hideously small fonts, provided the stupid site doesn't disable it (I'm talking about you, nytimes.com). Three finger double tap and drag works for those. iOS on an iPad has worked very well for me, but I've used other normal sized tablets (9-10 inch diagonal) without significant difficulty.

Well, yeah, KSM earned every morsel of agony he enjoyed at the hands of the CIA. But even when he didn't have any information, they kept on torturing him. These are the same bastards who'll come for you and me if they think our communications are linked with some kind of national security threat. You want to have something to tell them when you've finally had a bellyful of pain? Or do you want to hope that the twentieth time is the charm when you tell them that you really, REALLY can't remember that password? The law is no impediment to these sick people.

Let's hope they believe you've forgotten the keys before they intermittently pour water down your nostrils for a few days. Plausible deniability only works well if you're dealing with people whose actions are constrained by reason and the law. Ask KSM how not knowing the answer to some questions worked for him.

It's too late to be worried about experimentation; we're already experimenting on this planet. All they are talking about is more experimentation on top of what we're already doing by digging naturally sequestered carbon out of the ground and releasing it by the gigaton into the atmosphere. At least now there are people paying attention to the results of the experimentation.

The next day's comic is just as good.

They already have access to the machine, address book, etc. so they don't even need to offer the rebate for that. They should reserve the rebate for infections they could not get themselves, like putting the malware on a memory stick, walking it to someone else's computer and manually launching the ransomware.

And if they knew how to factor large integers efficiently they certainly would not tell us, since we'd all immediately move to ciphers unrelated to factoring integers. The NSA has no reason to tell us how great their cracking tools are. So if they are bragging, it's because they are trying to scare us off something that works and onto something that doesn't.

Me too, but honestly, this level of fanaticism is why every attempt at DRM is broken, every device is jailbroken, etc. Some people are crazy and simply will not take no for an answer. God Bless Them.

If they launch an attack on the U.S., North Korea can kiss their asses goodbye and they know it. They can threaten Sony and get away with it, because public corporations are cowardly by nature. But it is a whole other thing to kill Americans in a terrorist attack today. Iraq is still living in butthurt due to 9/11 and they weren't even involved. Sony should have released the film and called North Korea's bluff.

I can dig it. I've looked up some songs and found that I liked my misheard lyrics better. Toto's "White Sister", for instance:

How can you say you love me?
You don't even love yourself
You live your life like a dog at night
Just waiting on the step

At the time I first heard "Rock the Casbah" I didn't know the word "sharif" so there was no chance at all that I would not mishear that lyric.

You can't know its asisnine until you know what their objective is. If their objective is to get the FBI to kick in the door of everyone who Bittorrented those files or otherwise overreact, then making those threats wasn't asinine at all.

Nope, not a fan of rugby. I've watched rugby matches and the carnage is dialed back a bit, but I've still seen guys laid out cold as a mackeral from hits, and I've seen fingers inadvertently raked across faces.

I'd rather see pro football remain as it is, but also see all school sponsorship of the sport ended. Let the adults who want to make a profession of the game go into it with their eyes wide open, not indoctrinated as impressionable young people. If the sport dies from lack of participation, so be it.

The talent well will dry up as parents keep kids out of the sport--- and that's how a sport dies.

Let it die. The trend for every decade I've been alive is that more brains are needed to survive in the workplace, not less. Not only are the jobs more skilled, there are more rules to follow--- you have to have the mental wherewithal to know when you can and cannot say "fucked her right in the pussy", to use one famous example. We don't need otherwise healthy people starting at a deficit because they placed some game during their developmental years.

Helmets also prevent injuries such as fish-hooking the mouth, ears being ripped off, teeth being knocked out, and eyes being gouged, not to mention incidental facial abrasions from being tackled on artificial turf. Playing helmetless would like decrease head to head collisions, but would do nothing for other body parts smashing into the head. A man being wrestled to the ground by multiple opponents is likely to catch a knee or elbow, or get slammed on his back, bashing his head into the turf. There is nothing resembling professional football that I would like to see a human being playing without a helmet.