I always took the swaths of free mailed coasters as a sign that my friends and I should drink more.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to PROVE that your consumer electronics will not interfere with the avionics. It is even more difficult to prove that the other 150 passengers' electronics will not do so, when they are all broadcasting different packets at different frequencies. Obviously, for an organization in charge of this sort of thing (FAA), the only easy choice is to say, "Do not use wireless transceivers during the most critical points of flight." No, breaking this rule doesn't bring down the craft. But guess how many on-board cell phones the plane is rated for? Zero.

Sell treasure maps to bags of 'potpourri' or 'green tea' on ebay?

I have seen this tragic attitude on Native American reservations as well. The parents openly ridicule education and root for their children to fail, so that they will stay at home for their entire lives. It is a terrible cycle and is yet another contributing factor to the cultural suicide they seem intent on committing.

Back in the Counter-strike heyday, my friend would commonly get banned from a server after a few rounds for cheating. All he had was surround-sound headphones and the fast-twitch accuracy of a Korean but I'd get banned by association. Being labelled a cheater doesn't prove guilt; why wouldn't they use VAC analysis rather than hearsay?

And the 'disable scores' check-box does nothing but fix it.

It's exactly as vague as where all the money went. How strange.

By testing it in a sandbox, of course! Here's a super-nifty free binary analyzer that runs in your browser: http://anubis.iseclab.org/

While we've had plenty of CG characters visually designed from scratch, it's a far cry to say that we're near being able to synthesize their voices. Even our most carefully-crafted synthesized characters (Wall-E, GLaDOS) used augmented human recordings!

For those who want to sign a probably-ineffective petition, http://www.freepress.net/comcast

That experiment was not testing sadism, as the subject was instructed to continue shocking the 'test taker' by an authority figure. The clear result was that people do whatever they're told.

Because things like stock car racing have absolutely no advertising going on? Sponsors don't have to influence the sport in the slightest to make truckloads of money.