What increases autism rates is an increase in the diagnosis of autism.

I don't know if people have realized this, but nobody is an asshole anymore. Now people are 'borderline personality disorder' or 'aspergers' or 'bipolar' -- but people haven't changed, just diagnosis.

Personally, I still think some people are still just assholes. Not that I don't ascribe to mental illness -- I most certainly do believe people can have those aforementioned conditions -- but I think problems are over-diagnosed and over-medicated.

How does it react to common hazards ... such as fire? Boom? If it goes up like a pine tree then it isn't very good, imo.

I was more referring to the actual service. I figure most news-worthy chinese companies are probably quite well-established. Regardless of how much tech they export, though, it's still startup for cloud hosting.

. . . when you can just take the development! Really, who is going to trust a:

1) Free
2) Chinese (with all the IP protection that supplies!)
3) Cloud
4) Startup

service with their lifeblood development work? Anyone?

Even more than this, if you use a wireless phone then someone with simple radio equipment could easily listen in. Guess what? Still illegal.

What Google did is wrong. I wonder if they were also logging SSIDs for networks with SSID broadcast off? It's trivial to still obtain that SSID, but wouldn't that be circumvention of protection?

Do lasers have any effectiveness vs inertial bombs? there are no combustibles to detonate.

If you use a debit card, you are much more at risk than credit. Debit cards move money, credit cards issue credit.

I never use debit cards or checks. Both of those leave you wide open. Use credit for everything

I've always felt that the score from an IQ test was actually the real test. Reason being is that some people get a big score, think they're all that and a bag of chips, and let life beat them into the ground because they thought success was predestined. Other people get a low score, think they are stupid, and let life beat them into the ground because they thought failure was predestined. The most successful people, in my experience, see the score from an IQ test, say, "hmm, that's interesting," and then continue to try to do their best at whatever it is they want to do with their lives.

In other words, I feel that IQ tests are largely curiosities that are frequently harmful and only rarely actually useful.

Lets not even get started on the blatant testing demographic bias (target vs actual demographic/etc) that makes the scores skewed against people based on background.

If someone's gonna get fucked, might as well enjoy it.

If people in the corporation commit a crime, they can be charged individually. Just so you know.

I know. He created commander keen, first, so that should have been the game they used.

You are confusing "internet companies provide IM clients which bill as SMS if you use them" with "companies monitor traffic to . . ."

if you get your new non-smartphone with its included AIM application and send messages with that, it will likely bill those as a SMS message. That is entirely a different thing.

At least that is my experience.

I dunno about a link, but he lost me at plexiglass. That stuff is sooooo static prone, I'd be terrified to anchor motherboards to it.

I hate to bust your bubble, but saying "1. Obey the authorized user (esp since he is normally the OWNER)" is wrong for security. This is about security.

The fact of the matter is that social engineering is far simpler than hacking in almost all circumstances. And people are ***EXCEEDINGLY*** careless with their mobile phones. How many people don't have their PC, which sits in their locked house, remember forms data/passwords, but have a stupid app on their phone that shoots straight to all of their email accounts without so much as a password?

Power users will be power users, but for generalized security laws, the user is their own worst enemy. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably even more vulnerable. It's similar to the old adage: "a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client" -- if someone is so sure of themselves that they feel they are immune to social engineering methods for bypassing security, they are at even more risk.

If you were dealing with some local company or something, this might be ok to give them one more chance to 'make it right.' However, you are dealing with a big corp. The best thing to do, to avoid unforeseen consequences, is to call the fire marshal and inquire as to who is actually responsible if there is a situation like yours (the installer or the building owner). If it is the installer, then you immediately report the situation and get an official record of it on a government piece of paper. You then take that report and fax it to them while on the phone with their secretary and tell them they need to fix it, as the fire department has documented the faulty job and you aren't sure if they are being investigated . . .but you have confirmed with the fire marshal that they would be the ones found liable in case fault is found in the installation job.