The growing number of places you need a password on just to access some content is a sure cause for increased password reuse.

Humans are simply not suited to remembering random enough password to cover all the sites on internet.

The save password option on the browser might help...

but more and more sites use the "no not save passwords" option.. forcing people back to reusing passwords.

Well, personally I just use fairly random passwords and "rememberpass" extension on firefox to force saving password even when the site does not want you to do that.. as the lesser of the evils.

If corporations want the rights, they should also have the responsibilities.

So if an employee is killed through negligence for example the corporation would have everything they own held (as in all factories stopped from producing and such) for the duration of the prison sentence that a natural person would get for the same thing....

The same thing for any other crime that a corporation does. If they do not want that then they should not have the rights either.
 

Yes, in effect treaties are high priority laws in the US of A.

That is why any such foreign treaty has to be approved by the Senate and the President.

Indeed they are, but US is pushing it hard globally, most others involved are just nodding heads.

As I understand the situation, the councils that want to get part of the rural broadband money have to use "approved suppliers" and there are only two of them.

There is really not that much competition with only two companies available, though I am sure other companies could also do some of the projects.

The problem is thus that because it is a national program with only central authorization of suppliers with pretty high barrier of entry given the types of documentation and other things required to "prove" that you are capable to doing such on national level, this leads to companies that have only a regional presence not really being able to be suppliers...

And unfortunately it seems that in politics at least ignorance is the key to success.

.. and we send a laser armed robot to Mars to shoot up the locals disguised as rocks.

http://www.pulitzer.org/files/entryforms/2013planofaward.pdf

There you go.. full instructions..

and his toys are definitely not on the cheaper side.

Yes, to a geek an iPhone is a closed system.

But to an average user it is a very open system: All those applications in the store, access to the web and so on. All in an easy to use package.

Compared to the phones thay had before, iPhones likely feel like a breath of fresh air to them.

Could be, but I am sofar(few weeks) very happy with my $108 one.

Have no personal experience of the cheaper ones.

From quite many sources.

Cheapest I have seen have been about $65, though I did pay $108(inclusive shipping) for mine to get capacitive screen, a 8gb internal storage, 1.5ghz processor model.

In a sane banking environment they get loan amount that maxes out at lower than the expected easy resale value of the home.

It is when markets go overheated that people get too high loan amounts compared to what the homes would sell for when times are bad and they often do go insolvent if they lose their income while there is a market disruption.

What easily sellable assets does US goverment have to cover their debts if suddenly there was no further loans incoming? I know they have a lot of assets, some are even resesable, but in such a bust situation, how likely are they to be able to raise the money to pay off all the loans without davaluating the whole currency massively by "printing money"?

The total debt US has is way too high anyway, if a person had same sort of debt load they would be insolvent.

US is ofcourse not alone in the list of countries where the debt is too high, and still many of those other countires have high credit ratings too.

And yes credit rating companies are bad at basic math skills as expected by their previous ratings, but that does not mean that US should have any credit raiting above "Do not lend money at any cost"