OK, this is clearly a bad thing, but I don't think it means that your private LAN is immediately accessible to people all over the world does it? Multiple routers using the same keys means you could be tricked into logging in to someone else's router without knowing, but that would still require some way of directing your traffic to the imposter's device to begin with, such as DNS hijacking.

Knowing someone's keys would also allow you to encrypt/decrypt traffic as that device, facilitating a man-in-the-middle attack, but still, you need a way to get in the middle between two devices. This is not something that's trivial to do from one arbitrary location to another.

I'm not suggesting this isn't a serious problem, but I don't think it's as bad as, say, remote administration being enabled with a known default password.

What's wrong with asking that? Both Excel and Acrobat have built-in encryption capabilities. There's nothing ignorant about considering whether the built-in functionality is sufficient.

The security of an operating system should be judged by its default configuration, not by how insecure it is after you've installed a bunch of 3rd party apps. Even a security-oriented OS like OpenBSD can't prevent other people from doing insecure things to it.

You know, with only one additional keystroke you could have written the actual word instead of a dumb-looking of word.

Recursion is a loop.

Once again, Godwin's Law is proven.

Seriously though, you're making the wrong comparison. From descriptions I've read, the ISIS video contains quite a lengthy rant before the murder takes place. A more apropos question would be whether the Allies should have aired Hitler's speeches to the masses during the war.

Who are you Hugh Pickens?

And are you any relation to Slim?

I have similar feelings about the Olympics. It's fun to feel a part of something (national pride), but so much bribery and corruption goes in to choosing locations for the games, and so much effort and science goes in to cheating (with performance enhancing drugs), I find it hard to really get on board.

An electric motor could act as a generator on the way down, reclaiming enegry that was spent going up. Not with 100% efficiency, obviously, but the existing technique is not 100% efficient either.

While technically not an "antivirus" product in the conventional sense, Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit adds a significant layer of defense on top of Windows.

Microsoft removed the ability to "Insert from Scanner or Camera". For subsequent versions, the workaroundis to scan to an image file on your computer, and then insert the saved image into the document, rather than scanning directly into the document as before.

The removal of this menu item annoyed a lot of people, including myself.

Show me another spreadsheet program that's as good as Excel.

And I'm pretty happy with Exchange as my mail server. Using Outlook Anywhere, I don't have issues sending e-mail from Outlook if I travel outside of my ISP's network. Using Outlook Web Access, I can access e-mails, contacts, and calendars from nearly any device with a working web browser. And using Exchange ActiveSync, my e-mails, contacts, and calendars can keep in sync with iOS and Android phones. I never have to transfer contacts manually if I change to a different smartphone. I can even wipe my iPhone remotely if it gets lost. Setting up equivalent functionality with other software would involve a lot of work.

It's only a matter of time before some poor volunteer is asked to describe goatse.

I've done signalling over A/C wiring with my own homemade devices, although not outside a single building. From my experience with home Ethernet-over-Power devices, it sometimes doesn't work where more than one electrical panel is traversed.

Nevertheless, there is an entire industry devoted to Broadband over powerline (BPL), and it reportedly works for smart meters.

Why would the electric company need a radio network to communicate with household appliances? They already have a hardwired connection!