Those who care about keeping the contents of their IM conversations secret should not use Skype. As stated in their privacy policy "Skype may gather and use information about you, including (but not limited to) information in the following categories: ... (n) Content of instant messaging communications, voicemails, and video messages"

The EFF recommends using Pidgin or Audium with OTR encryption enabled, for reasonably secure instant messaging.

I'm glad the non-tech-savvy folks use Skype, though. If Microsoft weren't able to intercept these things, I'd have to clean out viruses from my in-laws' computers more often.

It can only fire "a few shots" before needing repair, and the muzzle velocity is probably low enough that even those are unlikely to be deadly. If a nutcase in my neighborhood was getting a gun, I'd want him to get this one.

Stricter control on real guns, and 3D-printing for the masses seem to be a good way forward.

Set up a script that lets Yahoo China users migrate to your service simply by typing in their old email and password.

The trustworthy people in the physics department always have a suitcase nuke on standby, in case the microbiologists get unruly.

Apple recently re-designed their phone so that it would be tall enough for the camera to peek out at the top of your shirt pocket. The hole is no longer necessary.

The total value of those companies today is in the hundreds of billions (even if we only count Bill and Steve), which for "thousands of dropouts" equates to an average of a hundred milion or so per dropout. Not bad.

It's a lottery ticket, for sure. If you hire just one of these people, theres a high probability it will not pay off, but if you can hire lots of them, and give them what they need to succeed, the expected return is very good.

What is new is that U.S. media is making a big deal out of it this time. Normally, this kind of talk does not even make it into the news, much less on to the front page.

All the wars that the U.S. has fought in recent time have been preceeded by massive media coverage about the country that was about to be invaded.

Even if you assume that zeroing is 100 % sure, it has two obvious drawbacks.
1) It takes a long time. The disk has to be mounted in a computer, then written in its entirety, and read back to verify that the write was successful.
2) It does not work on drives that are broken.

If you're destroying more than one disk a day, you'll want to use a machine of some sort.

The two observers were traveling with different velocities relative to God when this happened. (Somebody who can observe a deity creating a universe can obviously also travel at warp speed.)

The most prevalent scientific theory also has the early universe filled with light before the sun, or any other stars, were formed.

...and the customer support staff likes it too. They can be at least twice as productive when they can devote their full attention to the problem at hand, instead of having to give half their attention to some idiot on the phone who's yelling at them for not solving his problem faster.

Sure. If you're prepared to hire an electrician do re-do the wiring in your walls, then no problem.

However, for the cheaper "just replace the lightbulb" solution that TFA discusses, you're obliged to keep the electric switch on at all times, or the remote won't work.

Yes there is. Unless the "switch" has been replaced with something smarter, or the bulb has a second source of electric power, turning the ligth off at the switch means you cannot turn it back on again wirelessly.

Really, all that's needed for this to pass is that the patent trolls decide it would be cheaper to pay the defendants' legal fees than to buy a few senators to oppose the bill...

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