And you think the NSA is run by humans? Have you ever seen pictures of the top brass at the NSA? I've seen toasters with more anthropomorphic features.

They have Hillary's emails. They are just being polite. After all, there is a fairly good chance she will be the next PO(TU)S. Don't want to piss off your boss right off the bat.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams

Not only Orwell. Given what is going on these days, it seems that Murphy was an optimist, H.P. Lovecraft was an optimist, hell it's even looking like Nietzsche was an optimist.

Desqview didn't need applications - it ran DOS programs. And it was light years ahead of 3.0 in terms of speed and stability.

It was the pretty graphics and network support in 3.11 WFW that killed Desqview (and the QEMM memory manager).

I've not found that to be true. I don't get a whole lot of troll posts, but they do show up from time to time. Occasionally they are deserved, most of the time it's clear that the moderator missed something obvious or just didn't like my attempt and humor or sarcasm.

But mod points seem to be pretty random....

And it would be awfully hard to define 'misbehaving' around here.

Except that the vast majority of threads are about topics so obtuse that even Kim Jun-un couldn't care about. I mean, what paranoid schizo government cares about a high school principal getting wound up about some pictures on Flikr? Or magnets? Or asteroids?

I believe you're forgetting about Mr. Wyden (D-OR).

However, they are both hopelessly outgunned in this quest.

Is this some dialect of BASIC?

Perhaps, if it was written down and his parents signed it or there was some valid way for all parties to agree with the rule.

Being on the yearbook staff does not preclude him from doing things on his own. It isn't a contractually bound obligation. Unless the press pass bound him contractually (which would be odd for a high school), it's just and ID to let you into places where the public is restricted.

In any event, the principal (at least according to TFA) is being an ass. Instead of sitting him down and discussing this rather complex real world issue, he / she (?) threatens with blackmail and suspensions. Not exactly role model material here.

So, another thread about some random clueless school principal.

Look, the vast majority of us (at least the non-ACs) have already graduated from high school. We know that your average principal has to check the school policy manual to figure out which leg to put in the trouser first. And then they mess it up half the time anyway.

Not much to see here. Some lawyer will be around presently to wack some sense into the the school district.

I suspect that CareFirst puts it's financial bottom line first and everything else a distant 115th.

Alaska law requires it. Presumably Washington state requires it (at least some clerk told me that, I did not bother to look through the statue books).

No, they aren't the same but it points out that you have to give a health care facility quite a bit of information before they let you in the door. Sometimes you can get away without giving them your SSN (as if that would help), other times no.

Some states do put the SSN on the driver's license. One stop shopping!

Oh, and why is it always a 'sophisticated Cyberattack'? That wording is exactly the same as in the letter I recently received outlining the Primera BC/BS data breech" which happened over a year ago. Must be the same nasty cyber criminals. Or maybe the same unpatched SQL injection bug from 2005.