As I found out when I bought a sports car, when you're driving exactly the speed limit they can pull you over for a 12mph over the limit ticket. (and that's why I have a dashcam that overlays GPS data now!)

Using one weird trick? I'll never believe what happened next!

It'd be even better if the troll was a fake twitter 'follower' bot herder. Troll from a fake account with tens of thousands of followers and declare that you're a serious commentator because of your audience, then use other parts of the bot net to either agree, disagree or both to fan the flames.

Perfect. There's no way the soon to be ex will visit off shore banking and brokerage websites from your PC for 6 months while planning to divorce you, then claim you've hid money in court to get their half and yours. Nope, that'd never happen again.

They certainly wouldn't try to frame you for child porn to make the custody battle a slam dunk either. Everyone is always reasonable in a divorce. It's a bit like giving government bureaucrats unlimited spying powers. It's just never abused and always ends well. Just ask them.

I see you have hundreds of communications regarding Viagra in your email. That's inconsistent with personal use. Have you been illegally distributing prescription medication, or only conspiring to distribute it?

Penalties that judges would have to enforce? Let me know how that works out for you!

The blue wall of silence has nothing on lawyers protecting each other from misconduct charges, especially lawyers who are judges or prosecutors. (i.e. those who most need meaningful oversight)

The attachment to the tool seems to be based on a 'steady cam', so search for that on youtube and you'll see the counter spring system in action. It has to be adjusted for the weight and balance of the tool in use. It isn't for picking just anything up, it's meant to ease the burden of using specific known in advance heavy tools and looks like it could well help. If it helps enough to be worth the setup and expense then it's worth it, and if they've got the weight transfer to the ground working they've probably crossed that hurdle.

Spray Krud cutter onto a paper towel, then wipe. If it's really dirty, unplug it; spray onto the keyboard; scrub with a brush and then wipe it down. I've got about a dozen Ms at work I keep for the touch typists, and it only takes a few moments to make them look new.

About every 5-10 years use a dry brush to get the dust bunnies out. You may need to pull the plastic cover off the keyboard, but usually the key tops can stay on.

You FICO score may be lower if you don't have a history of pay money to banks.

I pay cash for everything, and found that when I wanted to finance a portion of an older yacht I just had to find a lender who did a manual credit review instead of blindly using a FICO score. I've found lenders who only use FICO have terrible customer service in any case.

When I bought my house, I had no credit cards and only the paid off boat in my credit history. I had no problems getting a loan. None. I'd saved for a down payment, was buying within my means and had a stable work history. i.e. I looked like someone who could pay back the loan I was asking for. That's all you need.

Also - go to a credit union. JSC here in Houston is wonderful if you're in the area. You don't have to work at Nasa.

If 0000 is good enough for ICBM launch codes it's secure enough for me.

This is to shut out low level snoops, so that over time the targets of the big players become careless with their data again. The powerful players have any number of methods to compromise a user device that accepts software updates...

This just in: If you track the location of criminal's cell phones you can predict areas at higher risk for crime.

Ok, I'll try. Ars Technica for the article? After the gamergate SJW coverage there, I figured Conde Nast merged it with Jezebel. If the old Ars covered something Apple it would have been the tech in a new arm chip, display tech or the like. You know, news for nerds - where the 'technica' came from in the name. Now it's techinca the way MTV is music videos.

If it costs $1.95 billion to research a health problem; try possible directions to address the issue; find promising possibilities; run animal trials that have problems; modify the approach; new trials until; repeat until you have something good enough for limited human trials where some fail and the entire effort is for naught; broad human trials for the few that work; and plan for long term monitoring to identify problems that take years to show the company doing that work needs to recoup the investment or they'll go under. The commercial successes have to pay for all every failure and then some.

The next $0.05 billion that goes to testing and verifying that the manufacturing process is safe, effective and has good dosing regularity is the least part of the expense. You're proposing to let a second company who knows the answers duplicate only the last small bit of expense. Even including human trials the second company would have at least a 90% cost advantage they'd use to undercut the inventor.

Hell, this is the US. The CEO of the first company would form his own start-up, PillagerCo and feed it the winners with insider info to make sure his personal company most successfully raids the company he's CEO of. He wouldn't need to launder that behavior through an intermediary or two as they do now.

Exactly. If you analyze enough art done by artists who understood composition and the rhythms color, form, space and lighting should take for a pleasing effect you'll see those things repeated. It's not too surprising that two 100 year old inside scenes would both include a doorway, chair, stairs, stove - any common interior furnishings - or that they'd be arranged for the best compositional effect.

Show me how Bazille's paintings recognizably show their his work, then demonstrate Rockwell including those elements into his work and you've got something. Rockwells visual story telling is a telling part of his style, for example.