Certainly: evil is in the mind of the beholder.

Is that you, Invisible Steve?!?!

Actually, housekeeping staff keys are often set to expire on a daily basis. The first thing a housekeeper needs to do in the morning is to revalidate their card. If the card isn't revalidated in time, it needs to human intervention (other than the housekeeper) to be reactivates. Source: I used to work for Onity's parent company (UTC Fire & Security, as it was then), and I worked requirements for some of Onity's newer products.

Bill Sethares has some nice work about this question, too: http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/

Perhaps not bigotry, but he's certainly been labeled as sexist: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic_community_i_spoke_out_then_came_the_rape_threats.html

If you're worried about your kid getting access to inappropriate things on the net, try K9: http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

You're new here, huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Mod parent up! +1 Funny. No mod points left!

My sister is a lecturer (professor) in composite materials in Australia. Yes, they do!

Google announces a new initiative: Google Document Format, for all your document sharing needs.

Click on the link in the story. It's been retracted. Nothing to see here, please move along.

Vote parent up! The AC is right: voting IS mandatory in Australia, unless you are resident overseas.

Summed up in this Venn Diagram: http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/9/6/7/nerd-venn-diagram-9420-1252236207-2.jpg

The practice of submarine patents was ended a few years ago, at least in the US. Check out Submarine patents on Wikipedia . The most famous of these were the machine vision Lemelson patents, which were thrown out in 2005.