and even then it wasn't really "dark", it was just mostly dark.

It's called light pollution. If the communities in your area would turn off their lights, you'd be surprised at how "dark" it really is.

The car analogy is so flawed it really should be removed from the story for this significant reason: cars are designed to move people and stuff. They can be used to commit crimes, but that is not their intended use.

Tor on the other hand, is explicitly designed to allow people to remain anonymous, to prevent detection. While honest people most certainly use Tor, so do criminals and it is because of Tor's intended purpose that the police are justifying their actions.

Before anyone flames me, I am not justifying what is taking place. I am only giving a much better explanation than that ridiculous car analogy for why this is taking place.

Put a small shield along the side of the timer so the drivers can't see the timer.

I know, I know, the solution doesn't involve some convoluted, drawn out, highly technical, over-engineered process so it will never be implemented.

Instead, we'll go out of our way to find the most convoluted, drawn out, highly technical, over-engineered, and expensive, solution and claim we're making progress.

So...you mean it has to be subsidized.

Yes, just like sugar, corn, soybeans and football stadiums.

Your point being. . .?

Except rather than expend the time and energy to get a job, these folks spend the time and energy to find ways to thwart these devices.

Someone who lived out there told me in Seattle they have/had benches with seat dividers of different heights so the homeless can't just slap a board on top and go to sleep. These folks who don't want to exert too much effort at a job found the time, energy and resources to fashion blocks which will make the benches level.

Apparently leeching off others is preferable to using the same energy to find work.

How about reducing weight that we all have to drag around with us

So you're suggesting a large portion of the American population get off their fat asses and lose weight so they can increase their vehicles fuel economy?

You might as well ask a starving lion to put down that leg of zebra it's gnawing on.

The OP was talking about specific areas of the ocean where plastic accumulates due to currents, not the entire ocean itself.

Further, you start with the big stuff and all those critters would fall through the mesh. You could still have a person or two check what comes up and toss the wiggling stuff back into the water, but the amount of life that would be impacted is essentially zero compared to the amount of life which is currently being affected by these islands of plastic or ingestion of all those micro beads from facial scrubs (I use a type which has natural* scrubbers mixed in for this very reason).

* This is probably the only time you will ever hear me say I deliberately use something which has "natural" ingredients.

After you go to the bathroom you should wash your hands and if you get a cut you should clean it and seal it.

Meh. I just lick my hands/cut. Since it's my own body, how much can it hurt me?*

* Joking (partially). I generally don't cover small scrapes and scratches and yes, I do lick my wounds, but yes, I do wash my hands.**

** Stated for those who don't grasp sarcasm/kidding.

Don't you mean the illegals are coming to Texas from Central and South America?

Obama could get IMPEACHED over this. This is turning into a Watergate level scandal.

How? Did the President order the IRS to destroy emails? Did the President order the IRS to investigate both conservative and liberal groups? Did the President have anything to do with what happened at the IRS?

Considering the previous administration explicitly told its staffers to use non-governmental email sources, in direct violation of several different laws, that it deleted emails after it was told to retain them for the investigation into the firing of 8 attorneys and a host of other related issues, including using the excuse that if an email had not been opened it wasn't considered read and therefore wasn't subject to retention and also fell under executive privilege, I fail to see how something not involving the President could lead to his impeachment when incidents directly involving a previous President didn't lead to impeachment.

(Besides, where does this "blame the victim" attitude always come from? It's ridiculous.

You obviously missed the comments I made to the same effect back in April and had folks respond that yes, the victim is partially to blame no matter what.

Here, read the torturous and twisted excuses people make trying to justify why the victim is to blame, whether a hacking event such as this or having your house broken into.

until the Scientologists start asking to have all the web sites which outline their seedy, extortionist processes to be removed.

Sorry folks, you posted something on the web, it's available to everyone and this nonsense about removing web sites is completely anathema to the concept of the WWW.

The more tools you have to solve a problem the better off you are.

When there are too many tools you spend more time trying to find one that works rather than getting on with completing the job.

There's nothing more annoying than working on a project with someone that only knows 1 language.

Which has nothing to do with having more languages. That is a person who hasn't learned to use any other language.

Anyone who thinks there aren't enough languages shouldn't be shot on sight. No exceptions.

What we need are people who are more interested in developing quality software, which works, without thinking they need to be on the bleeding edge of technology. Look at how horrible the web has become because people thought they were being hip and edgy by making continuous scrolling web sites or slide out menu options.

If you make a robust site, or application, you won't need to worry about needing the latest and greatest because it will just work.

Further, trying to claim that desktop applications are usable is a joke in itself. Just like web sites, developers, and the companies they work for, think throwing eye candy at the user is what is needed. As a result, one is constantly fighting the application because it thinks it knows what you are trying to do and tries to be "helpful" when all it's doing is getting in the way. Automatic tabs in Word anyone?

This is just another example of people in the industry being out of touch with reality. Maybe if they would spend more time out of their cube watching how real people perform their work,and how today's systems perform, we wouldn't have to hear about this nonsense every other week.

How is this wi-fi free if I'm paying for it as part of my ticket price?

Oh, you meany you won't be charged an additional fee to use it. Got it.

Still not free, only a bit cheaper to use.