Piracy. Using the hosts file to block calls from installers out to verification servers is pretty common. This would effectively end that method for circumvention.

And they wonder why there is piracy of video games. Seems quite obvious to me. "Buy game and get a rootkit installed on my machine, compromising my system's security or get the game from pirates without that."

Yeah, that's why iOS 6 isn't available until fall. The whole "ships today" mentality about Apple isn't always true, though they do generally get things out fairly quickly, they don't always.

They are already using the old Titan pad at Kennedy. But that is a single pad and not nearly enough to support the ambitious plans SpaceX has for the future.

They are currently using one that we already have. But SpaceX has ambitious plans for the future far beyond being a taxi and ferry for NASA. At Kennedy that have a single pad, the old Titan pad. Not nearly enough to support what they want to do. They also has also used the launch facilites on Omelek Island in Kwajalein Atoll, but again, not enough to support their future plans.

Mojave is only certified for horizontal launch of spacecraft, such as Scaled Composite's White Knight/SpaceShip1 combo. SpaceX is launching rockets. Doesn't really fly to launch those over land. People tend to complain. That's why they are all located on coasts. Kennedy, Wallops, Vandenberg... Brownsville is an ideal location. Now, Kennedy is also in the middle of a wildlife preserve, as is the Stennis Space Center where they do engine testing. Animals don't have the heck scared out of them at either location. Nor are their noxious chemicals spread all over.

Having an environmental group in Texas? How is that even real? I don't believe Environment Texas actually exists. It is contrary to everything Texans stand for.

Our legislative body did as well this year with SOPA. Elected leaders will do what the public wants if the public makes its voice heard. In the end, elected officials want to keep their jobs and that means not pissing off the people. There have been huge demonstrations across Europe against ACTA. It's actually not hard to get legislative bodies to do things... it is hard, however, to get people interested enough to care to make some noise.

I think the important thing is to use the polling system to gather information about public opinions, not necessarily as a vote to approve or set policy. Especially if competently coupled with facts, pros and cons from both sides written and vetted so that they are as honest and truthful as possible. I've actually been thinking about coding something like this for quite some time.

I get the feeling that this guy has been wiping out with women since he was a teenager and is just seeking a scapegoat for his inadequacies. Guys have never needed the help of video games or porn to wipe out with women. We're experts on that all on our own thank you very much!

Why? Publicly funded space travel isn't over. NASA has stated, just a few weeks ago, that their goal is Mars. The SLS and Orion are still progressing nicely towards their big tests. No mourning needed.

Only if they continue to track your activity after you log out of a site.

21 cases, not people. Each case may represent hundreds of thousands of people. This final case is grouping all 21 of those together. The $10,000 is the maximum damage allowed under law per person, not per case.

The study talks about local temperature changes in the vicinity of wind-farms by comparing non-wind-farm areas very near by. This kind of invalidates the word climate in the headline as climate is global, not local. Weather is local. While the paper does say that if large enough, a wind farm could have a climatic effect, I'm assuming it would have to be an apolitically huge wind farm. The study also notes that the effect is small when compared to anthropogenic factors.

Point 1: Men cannot ascend to the "highest level" unless dragged there attached to a woman. It's called marriage. Men don't get in alone and neither do women. It's not some "men only club." Point 2: Not really sure what your point here is. As a statement of fact, yes, it's true, but it is true of many religions. Point 3: Once again wrong. The primary way for Mormon women to become "garmented" is actually a ceremony in the temple called the endowment. It has nothing to do with being married nor with bearing children. Most happen to do it around the time of their marriage, but that many do it long before that time. Having children actually has nothing to do with it. It might help, when making claims, to have some reality in there. Plus, throwing ad hominem attacks into your arguments doesn't exactly make you sound believable. It just makes your claims sound desperate and weak.