Get paying on those loans... the Dept. of Education needs more money to roll in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/obama-student-loans-policy-profit_n_3276428.html

You say that like BB is still relevant. The sales figures are questionable and hinge largely on Blackberry's word which, by means of a flailing company, is basically hearsay. It would be interesting to submit a slashdot poll about BB's Z10 and who actually bought one..

http://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/encrypt-your-skype-messages-thwart-snooping-eyes-using-pidgin-0131804/

It was easier to change the version numbering scheme to break all the current malware rather than fix the myriad of holes in the code.

Are they planning on re-making Cosmos as a fictional comedy?

What's likely is the dude was selling regular soybeans which had unknowingly become cross-pollinated with Monsanto pollen. Bees and wind give no f#cks about copyright. They take pollen from field to field and Monsanto knows this.

People don't want to change so they deny the credibility of the evidence staring them in the face. Are you really that dense that you cannot see the effects of global climate change around you now? Bleaching of Coral reefs[0], Hurricane frequency[1], Shrinking of one of the largest glaciers on earth[2] not to mention the rate of change in global temps[3] for the past century. Yes it's been warm in the past, but the RATE at which warming occurred has never been seen before. These are the facts and they are happening now. I guess for a lot of people it's more comforting to glue their noses to the manufactured reality of Fox News and the like rather than accept what is happening and that change is needed.

[0] - http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html
[1] - http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2007/hurricanefrequency.shtml
[2] - http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2013/04/21/tracking-greenlands-fast-melting-ice-sheets.html
[3] - http://www.npr.org/2013/03/08/173739884/since-end-of-last-ice-age-rates-of-global-warming-amazing-and-atypical
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If people are being harmed by way of a cellphone then I would like to start a petition to make it illegal to own a cellphone unless:

A) locked with a safety strap or similar device so it cannot be operated except by the intended owner

B) require retinal scanning or fingerprint recognition so it can only be operated by the owner.

C) SD capacity should be limited to 4 gigabytes. Anything larger than that is clearly a sign that something illegal is afoot. Nobody needs more than 4 gig to practice with a cellphone unless they are law enforcement.

D) Background checks should be required when purchasing a cellphone so the MEID can be recorded along with the person's name and address.

To ease the GPG pain*. Enigmail does a great job but it's only half the battle. How you are going to reconfigure every Recipients client without causing sheer panic is going to be interesting. Please report back when you do.

[*] - http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php

There's more value in anonymity. Especially when the proposed system mimics many systems already in place which have been abused by law ennforcement[1], or are simply privatized tax-dollar money-pit schemes which keep getting tax dollars dumped into them[2].

[1] - http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/woman-allegedly-stalked-by-schaumburg-police-chief-i-felt-just-complete-hopelessness/
[2] - http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html

I'm guessing you need pretty clear weather for the targeting system to work.

The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?

"Limiting what customers can do..." seems to be the new norm... along with with "shut up. give up rights. sign EULA"

That works really well until there is a political body in power which passes legislation to enable large bureaucracies to legally be above the law.

These things have been around forever (image google it). The predecessors usually lasted for more than one or two shots however. But they have been fashioned from every imaginable material. The only reason this is going to gain any legislation traction will be due to A) frenzied knee-jerk reactionaries running amok screaming "Think of the children!" B) Politicians proxying legislation from corporations with an agenda in one direction or the other. It's stupid to give this thing much more attention than slapping a "21 only" label on it. Anything else will be a waste of time, money and energy.