http://news.discovery.com/huma...

"Between 1990 and 1995 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children handled only 515 stranger abductions"

100 stranger abductions a year vs. 166,000 non abused kids taken by CPS.

literally more than 1000 times as likely your kids will be kidnapped by the government than a 'stranger'.

And yet /. hates Microsoft for having it's 'Monopoly'

If there was a 2/3rd chance I would die due to a correctable brain chemical imbalance, please put me in the hospital for a few days, thanks.

Or they just didn't head in our direction.

Binary?

Over the last 20 years a lot of patents in the area have expired as well, making them cheaper to produce and sell.

Well, someone will have to write the detailed specification, and list of instructions for the system to use to know what the humans want it to code. We could call that person a 'Programmerator' and the system a 'Compileatron'.

Does 'Unclassified' is this context mean not yet given a class, or is it the same as 'declassified'?

Does she use G-mail?

When my brother in law got a private e-mail from a realtor with an attachment that suggested we get our basement lined with plastic; suddenly the ads on Slashdot were for local basement lining service companies, even before my brother-in law read the e-mail.

Google not only read the e-mail attachment before it entered our home network, it automatically matched his e-mail account to our houses IP address (we don't share computers, so not cookie based), and started serving advertisements to other people based upon that potentially private information.

If you have medical conditions, and you talk about them in 'private' g-mails... (or just google search them...) it's not longer private.

True:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

"Congress passed the VPPA after Robert Bork's video rental history was published during his Supreme Court nomination."

Real Life isn't Spherical Cows. They need a better model.

There is a building near Microsoft labeled "Affiliated Associations of America" which sounds shady as fuck.

I have a T-Mobile phone with Wi-Fi calling; it keeps turning the feature on by itself; and it sucks with dropped calls continually.

Well, someone will have to write the detailed specification, and list of instructions for the 'deep learning system' to use to know what the humans want it to code. We could call that person a 'Programmerator' and the system a 'Compileatron'.

Well, wanting to murder people is a sign of mental illness; and mentally ill people aren't usually that good at executing complex plans.