The federal government of the United States of America is a federation of (supposedly independent) states. The electoral college and Congress are set up in ways that make the states more important than their constituent citizens. This is by design because of the nature of the union. Marriage between X and Y is a union between X and Y. Their children, A, B, C, and D have no say in the continuance or divorce of said union.

Also, direct democracy is rule by people who have enough time on their hands to vote on everything. That's retirees and internet trolls.

Or even better: "Google Handed Data of Three Wikileaks Staffers to FBI"

Did I miss something? Did they skip FBI 2 just like Windows 9? That headline could be written in a less confusing manner: "Google Handed Three Wikileaks Staffers' Data to FBI"

Show me an unbiased politician, and I'll show you a politician who will care more about the bribes than the issue.

Create Star Trek parody videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... And according to the video, they also play Wii.

Mount an NFS share to /dumbidea then dd a huge new file to /dumbidea/superslowswap and mkswap /dumbidea/superslowswap ; swapon /dumbidea/superslowswap
This might not run as desired.

Dead people are more likely to be sedentary.

The problem with such a program is that the insurance company has the data from other dongles on the same roads. Presuming there are timestamps on the accelerations, they can model traffic flows. If everyone is stopped at a stoplight in the reconstructed model but your fake data shows you driving through the light at speed limit minus one, their analysis program will know something is wrong with your data. Investigation ensues.

Some companies will happily spend money and people on the security problem, but individual people within the company refuse the spend the time, using workarounds to skip having to deal with security. Sometimes this means using the computing resources nonsecurely, but other times it means avoiding using the computing resources.

"Their impotent wails of despair give us sustenance."

The job description of Pope includes believing at heart "if a man strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other cheek [to strike]." This does not preclude defense of others, but it also doesn't suggest an allowance of escalation in defense of others. If a man strikes my mother's cheek, I can strike his cheek to defend her, but if the same man merely calls her an ugly name, from where does the call to violent reaction spring? Righteousness or wrath? Hopefully Francis will think about that some more.

Ask Slashdot: I want to dress up as systemd for Halloween this year. Do you have any costume tips for dressing or acting like systemd?

Within a certain fuzziness, the cells comprising my body are organized as "me" enough that others recognize me as me and not as someone else.

But they can't live forever organized as you or me.

I have an email in my spam filter with a sent time of year 2060. Either it's really from the future, or email timestamps are largely worthless.