Citation needed.

Clearly, you didn't read the article. The document attachment won't trigger your scanner, because it exploits an unpublicized kernel vulnerability. Because it's a kernel vulnerability, it's quite unlikely privilege separation will help you. So unless you forbid people to get any and all .doc/.docx files from any source, you are vulnerable to something like this.

So ... you do block all possible access to .docx files, right? Or maybe you need to realize that your 20 year old security rules that aren't 20 years old are also already out of date. The game has changed.

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Your faith in the State's benevolence is duly noted, and downright cute.

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A carbon tax doesn't destroy the economy per se, it changes the tilt on the game board creating new winners and losers. It only causes big problems if you insist that the old winners must continue to be winners, which isn't something that any government ought to promise.

Utterly and completely wrong. At the root of the Industrial Revolution is one simple thing: material abundance didn't happen until people found out how to replace muscle power with the stored energy in abundant fossil fuels (there isn't enough wood). A carbon tax makes that energy more expensive. When energy costs rise, everything gets more expensive -- especially food. Cheap food and cheap energy are the basis of modern civilization. Start bumping up the costs of those two things, and marginal countries won't be able to "catch up to the curve" and start improving the lot of the world's poor.

In short, don't kid yourself. Whether AGW is real or not (we don't know), whether it poses a threat or not (surely a big event like this would have SOME positive impacts as well as some negative ones), don't kid yourself. Cutting down carbon emissions will kill some people -- it just won't be people you know.

As your sig says, citation needed.

"The internet has reached a stage were it is just as important a service as power and water ..."

No, it hasn't. It can't. If you need me to explain, you need to review 3rd grade biology. My daughter recently completed 3rd grade, but I'm pretty sure I don't trust any slashdotters around my daughter. So you'll need to find your own 3rd grader.

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I can find no part of the MA Constitution which grants government power to pass a mandatory "buy insurance or be fined $1500" law.

Assuming you refer to car insurance, you have a third choice: Don't drive. You have no constitutional right to drive an automobile. If the state wants to require proof of financial responsibility before it licenses you to do so, it has violated your rights no more than if it makes you pay tolls to use the roads.

You do have a constitutional right to be secure in your person, papers and effects. That's the difference.

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But the pronunciation of the Norfolk in Nebraska has a story behind it ... The original settlers named it "North Fork," after the northern branch of the Platte River. But by the time the name of the town was being registered in Washington, DC, some Virginia-centric bureaucrat wrote the name as "Norfolk," obviously thinking it was named like Norfolk, VA.

However, the locals continued to pronounce the actual original name. And so, "Norfolk, Nebraska" is pronounced "Nor Fork" to this day. Just sometimes, a word can tell quite a tale.

Way too often, I know way too much utterly useless information.

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