I'm sure most readers here "got" it. It just wasn't funny.

Agreed.

Even if the kid hadn't been a dope-smoking, fight-starting, gangsta-wannabe thug who lacked the foresight to consider the lack of wisdom in physically attacking a random stranger in a southern state with both concealed-carry and stand-your-ground laws in effect, what scientific potential did he embody (forget actually accomplish) to warrant his name being carried into astronomic posterity?

Exactly my thinking. After reading the device permission requirements demanded by the most recent update for the Android app version of FB, I uninstalled it entirely. There's no good reason I can think of for Facebook to have visibility and control of the apps running on my device.

Change your WiFi password to "pennyalreadyeatsourfoodshecanpayforherownwifi"

And since when does enforcement of federal law fall under the operational jurisdiction of county sheriffs?

So they just flipped the fraction and multiplied by 1000...brilliant! </sarcasm>

This is exactly the sort of reason why I've chosen nVidia cards time after time for my system builds. I went with the GTX660 this time around, even though a slightly "higher" rated (per THG) Radeon offering was in the same price range. Had I gone the other route, I'd be spitting nails over this.

By copying Apple's well-established business process of suing their competitors for trademark and patent infringement, Samsung is clearly guilty of infringement.

(sound of recursive cranial implosion here)

After more than a decade of codified nanny-state crap of this very sort over there, is anyone still genuinely shocked by these examples of their stupidity in action?

Seriously, why is this news?

Most distributions offer a LiveCD option that can be run from the disc (or USB stick) without installing to the hard drive. I prefer Fedora 14 or Ubuntu 10.10, but that's just a personal preference. Functionally, they aren't very dissimilar.

This is probably one of the douchiest opinions I've seen voiced here, and that's saying something. Your lack of humanity is just appalling.

Others have already made the common-sense rebuttals vis-a-vis proportionate response, lack of actual harm inflicted, unlikelihood of danger to society, etc, so I won't belabor those points.

People like you need to step back and take stock of your philosophy on life and human society, because you're dangerously close to a belief that we're interchangeable automatons gliding through life on inflexible etched rails.

My thought was lower-tech...a moderate caliber, high-powered rifle would do the job nicely. I'm thinking .30-06, which should work well on traffic enforcement cameras, too.