Now that is insightful. Seriously, what is next? Broken legs are bad. Everyone is to have their legs removed to avoid law suits from leg injuries.

Great, until they get stuck in Manhattan traffic on their to Central Park, where they will have to compete with all the other city bees for flowers.

Hey, welcome to the internet era. We still have the same amount of useful information; what we gained was a shit-ton of noise (my comments included).

• I'm thinking about kittens!
• Time to vacuum the house!
• I'm an armchair [quarterback; president; reality television show producer] and this is how [they] SHOULD HAVE [done something about which I have little to no real world experience].
• LOL Took a huge dump (see picture)

The internet has made me hate people way more than I ever thought possible.

I think what he is getting at is that one can clearly be not fit for survival in the natural sense (e.g., the slower or sicker antelope becomes dinner), but in humans we have created a society where that idea is non-existent. In other words, Whoosh! Clearly humor has been selected out of your line (that was also a joke).

More importantly, when will we get lazy enough that the encrypted version of our medical stats becomes commonplace? E.g.,
"Hey, what's your cholesterol?"
"9E024B9D7G129F8A7D084HF0241746GAE98364FA9295HA82754834H9328747FA 8907A089F004375G73649E746D92850F872892B398D93095738A74674F943834B3."

I just wonder why someone would spend all that money on a laptop with two displays and have Bing in both of them...Or one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yhiih53F4

We have a lot of other stuff on our plate, so we shouldn't have to worry about the ins an outs of how a treasury auction works, etc.

I am suddenly reminded of the Despair poster: None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Hopefully our corrupt politicians will never let that happen. And based on Obama's recent press conference (something about us regular people shouldn't have to know the minutiae of complex economic vehicles and we should leave it up to our masters [OK, the "master" thing is my word]), you can rest assured it won't happen while he is in office.

I agree. This so-called patent sounds more like a mash-up.

Aren't issues two and three part of the same issue - I'll call it #4 - that the patent system is broken? I don't know who they hire, but I remember reading once that Einstein was at one time a patent clerk. Something tells me they aren't getting such smart people these days.

I'm kidding about AIDS. There is myth associated with it; however, I believe that it exists, at the very least as a bunch of associated symptoms. The real tragedy is the people scared into taking drugs to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS, but the drugs destroy their kidneys and eventually kill them anyway. And don't get me started on fibromyalgia...

AIDS, like restless leg and chronic fatigue syndromes, is a myth. And last I checked cancer kills lots and lots of people. Some cancer can be avoided or reduced to a statistical impossibility with good lifestyle choices. Others, like my friends anaplastic astrocytoma, are just shit luck that fucks you in the ass for a month or a year before they kill you (if the chemo and radiation don't first lead to your death). Alzheimer's sucks (got my granddad), but maybe he just had variant CJD from eating tainted meat. Hey, maybe someday a cranky doctor (not a magician, mind you) will just wave some beepy tricoreder thingy in front of you and instantly cure everything. Except baldness. Even Star Trek technology failed on that one.

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

So, one must ask if (1) is the global scope is broad enough to confer the intelligence of the inter-linked hypertext documents; or (2) if it is in fact the inter-linked hypertext documents that create the global scope.

My climbing gym web site was hacked recently and used for a phishing scam and general fun for the script kiddies. The annoying part is that, even with absolutely nothing critical to lose (other than site up-time due to our host taking the site down), there is still a lot of work to do just to make sure they didn't leave another back door. I know this because...I missed the backdoor. They dropped a nice PHP script on the server that gave them unrestricted access.

Anyway, the point is that just thinking one has been breached is shitload of work for someone, and probably a good reason to beat the bad publicity of a full breach with a press release that at first sounds worse than it well may be.

[flap flap flap flap flap flap flap]

Just kidding. All I have is a 19" LCD being fed by water-cooled dual SLI. And all I really did was buy it cheap from a friend when he built a better machine. I'm a fraud.