I absolutely don't blame you for not reporting it (that's a pretty goddamned nasty thing to do to a friend after all) but I don't envy you your contemplative time alone, considering the high likelihood of this officer having made a number of new victims since you heard the sheriff's anecdote.

That said, I imagine it's a similar situation for the cops. Nobody wants to be the arsehole who rats out their workmates .. so the date-rapes continue, as does the police brutality.

Officer cams that can only be lawfully disabled during a shift for restroom breaks (for example) would go a long way to helping clean this situation up, but only if the footage is well outside the Police's control. I'm fed up to the back teeth with the foxes running the henhouse when it comes to police conduct.

I immediately check the Celestia Motherlode.

The reason being that you can almost get a sense of how big something really is with it since it displays your distance to it in au (or ly, Kpc, Mpc).

I encourage you to try it, hit H then G to go to sol, then scroll away first to 1 au, then 10, etc. The sun is still quite bright at 1 ly.

Imagine how big that thing appears at 1 ly distance! // Maybe someone will create a Celestia add-on for it? Please please please!

No, I am je ne sais quoi. His comment had none of me, I assure you.

Aw come on, cut them some slack. Merkel even uses SMS from time to time ;-)

A halcyon ideal but I'm not sure how much better off we'd actually be. There are plenty of nations besides the US and Russia who desire nuclear weapons so it seems rather a lot safer to be 'in the club' than out.

Israel was always going to want to arm itself regardless - who wouldn't in their situation? Pakistan had no choice but to follow suit after India repaid Canada's kindness by double-crossing them to kick-start its own weapons programme in a deeply destabilising move for the region. China would definitely be in on the party and France wasn't about to be left out.

Nope, I really don't think US/Russian disarmament would have made the blindest bit of difference. The world wanted nukes and by God it was going to have them.

GO!
seriously how long until someone claims that this happens every 35 million years and the clock is ticking down to Nov 10, 2016.

Next time you see some one doing an up-skirt don't look away, look right at the person and make it clear you see him (or her) and do not approve.

I have a friend who used to do shit like that. Not like super duper creepy, but opportunistically.

We were all out at a bar one time and he's walking back to the table, sees this girl in a short skirt facing away from with at a "good" angle.

He starts lining up the shot and his girlfriend goes up to the girl and says, "Excuse me, there's some pervert over there trying to take a picture of your underwear".
The girl looks around sees him calls him a pervert and we all bust out laughing.

Don't fuck with Lisa. They've been married a long time now ;-)
 

It would be cool if we could track the trackers, and post their location on maps in real time; showing where they troll for cars, where they park at night, what donut stores they frequent. After all, the license plate trackers are plainly visible, anybody could see them and remember where and and when they did.

note: The only example the OP has about this is google maps which is not a banking site.

most proxies have a built in (often on by default) passthrough for SSL to banking, health, and finance sites. which bypasses the MITM scanning of the financial, health and banking sites.

Also most proxies don't have a method of actually seeing what was decrypted. it's generally decrypted scanned, and passed through, and discarded. no logging of personal info. other than authenticated username (domain credentials, so information the company already knows) and the site you went to.

Boy, when you remove context from misleading headline excerpts, things sure do get wacky!

You know those jokes that sometimes aren't funny from old movies, that your relatives laugh real hard about? A large number of those came from the same logic - taking a topical story, removing the context, and applying hyperbole to the idea. They know the idea is misleading, and are 'in' on a joke that they just can't explain to you and still be funny.

Just bundling some of those together with a 'technology' theme isn't making a point - its bungling a joke. Not as bad as that whole 'beta' attempt, but still, a bad attempt at a joke.

Ryan Fenton