My phone has the entire text contents of the Wikipedia installed on it. It's about a 10GB download and the Android app is free. It takes up part of the 32GB external sd card. I'm sure glad I didn't buy a Google branded phone (Google hates SD slots.)

Except for the periodic battery replacements, which are mandatory and in the mid five figures.

Tesla is also still relying on the $10,000 per vehicle subsidy that each car they sell is getting from the government. Until they are no longer dependent on that subsidy to stay in business, they are still totally dependent on the will of the government to hand our tax dollars out to them.

They could be instantly out of business if the political winds change. If, say, our representatives in Washington decided that it's a little nuts for the American taxpayers to be heavily subsidizing the price of a luxury class vehicle.

They're an Advertising company that leverages technology to stay on top of critical new marketing trends.

The days when Google wasn't an Advertising business ended many years ago. Any highly successful entity that involves a significant amount of advertising is quickly flooded by a special kind of people. Let's not pretend otherwise.

"Gay" is such a weird label. People who openly profess to being 'gay' can go around claiming that other people are 'gay' and use it to as the basis to ridicule them. Yet it's supposed to be something that we all accept in one another. Its like peoples' copulation preferences are something the defines them and must direct the rest of their lives. Really, get over it.

How do we get off this island?

The Professor and MaryAnn aren't helping things by panicking, btw.

The point is, when anybody adds 'on the Internet' to a statement, it becomes hugely more critical.

"Somebody knows my mailing address."

Now, that is pretty bland. Anybody who drives by your house probably can figure that out quickly.

But change that to "Somebody on the Internet knows my mailing address" and it's time to pee down your pants leg.

It's similar in so many ways to the magic of patenting something by tacking 'on the Internet' on the end.

I've been 'online' for decades, going back to the BBS era. I was active on a local social BBS back in the late 80's. We got together on Sundays to play softball.

Everybody was so fricking scared to present themselves to the other people they were playing softball with using anything but their 'handles.'

There's something weird that happens when you allow people pretend to themselves that they have anonymity. No other explanation makes sense.

The Government could fix the whole SSN issue by doing something direct and simple.

Publish all SSN's in a big directory.

They were never intended to be 'secret numbers' that would be used to validate anybody's identity. They were registration numbers for the Social Security System.

Publishing them ALL would force businesses and organizations to come up with real 'secure identifiers.'

Twist it again, as always appropriate with Bowie. Spaceheads are junkies, too.

That seems like such a weird song to sing up there sitting in a tin can.

Bowie sorta updated the matter on Scary Monsters anyway.

ashes to ashes funk to funky
we know major tom's a junky
strung out on heaven's high
hitting an all time low

He is a non-expert on Crypto who wrote a book that no experts on Crytpo would publish over a decade ago. Since that time he's spent a lot of time blogging about a lot of stuff.

He has almost no credentials to make him a security expert. He's another Kevin Mitnick. Can't the Slashdot community come up with real, credentialed security experts to rely on?

The US Government can't all be fit into a jail.

So, you're saying 'You Cut Off Their Tails With A Carving Knife'?

Wouldn't they have to pay a postscript license fee to Adobe for each unit? Or is there a ghostscript solution they could use?

He is a non-expert on Crypto who wrote a book that no experts on Crytpo would publish over a decade ago. Since that time he's spent a lot of time blogging about a lot of stuff.

He has almost no credentials to make him a security expert. He's another Kevin Mitnick. Can't the Slashdot community come up with real, credentialed security experts to rely on?