I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.

1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.

Reminds me of my first email account ;) One of my professors said we all had to register for an email account (this was in the mid-90s) so we could submit our homework to him, so I registered his name at hotmail.com to mess with him ;)

I don't trust single points of failure.

Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!

Has anything actually stored hashes in /etc/passwd in the last thirty years?

"Yo, dawg..."

Much as I agree with you from a moral standpoint, from a legal standpoint it is not as cut and dried as you make it out to be.

If you want to make the argument that "data about you" is "your data" that's fine, but the presumption here is that it's the airline's data, and it is offering it freely (as in speech, not as in beer) to the government. Where is the fourth amendment implication? It is not your "house, person, papers, or effects," it is the airline's and they're happy to let the government sort through it.

Sigh. No it isn't. The airline is not a provider of medical services, it is not regulated by HIPAA.

While I agree that this is not something I want the government to be doing, what part of a database maintained by the airlines constitutes your person, house, papers, or effects? If the government demands access that would be one thing, but if the airlines say "hey, wanna buy our data?" and the government says "hell yeah" that is something else.

There's nothing like a good smack to the beitzim to stop a would-be rapist. And there's nothing like biting someone if it's all the leverage you have.

Remember, this is not a video game or a sanctioned fight in a boxing ring. This is your life versus the life of a terrorist or other attacker. Kill or be killed. Learn to fight.

Sure, but nothing tangible would be lost - just some notional "Market Cap" reduction which is only really meaningful to Wall Street types, although that would also impact people's pension's etc.

Where nVidia would be exposed would be is companies have bought significant quantities of their chips, but go bust when the bubble pops without settling their invoices from nVidia first. Best case that ties up nVidia's cash while the bankruptcy process happens and they get a significant slice of the outstanding financial pie. Worst case the companies in question all implode with significant debts to multiple parties, their assets (mostly nVidia's chips) get sold off to pay off those debts, but nVidia still gets next to nothing once the assets are divied up. Combined with a heavily reduced market cap, that leaves nVidia with a significant reduction in cash-in-hand and a lack of value with which to help secure loans and investment, which in any case would need to come from a financial market reeling from a multi-trillion dollar bubble pop. The reality is more likely to be somewhere in the middle, but nVidia isn't going to sail through this completely unscathed either.

Need Internet v2. :P

Longer than most think.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

-Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

"Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms" - Scott Galloway