I suspect some of these people do it simply because they want to figure out who the owner is so they can return it. Storage devices should be untrusted. This is an OS problem, not PEBKAM.

Oops. Mea culpa. You are exactly correct. I will retreat back into my ignorant "acts like a Texan" cave now.

No, just ask GHW Bush how well that works out. Short answer: it doesn't, especially when the economy goes to shit

You are forgetting: Bush WON reelection. It worked out just fine for him.

Sure you would. Otherwise men and women who would rather be free or die would kill you.

I read them there for free after done skiing or simply take them home after which I shred and compost

Hey! So YOU are the shmuck who keeps stealing the newspapers from the gym (when other people still want to read them). Are you also the guy who steals all the toilet paper from the bathroom and takes it home?

Anyone who works in Hollywood should know enough to either ask for a cut of the profits (if they think they have a hit) or a flat fee ...

Don't EVER ask for a cut of the "profits." The studios always manage to jigger the ledger to make it look like a hit movie made little to no "profit." You need to ask for a cut of the box office GROSS not profit. Note that this is exactly what worked for Alec Guinness.

Oops, missed one:

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CV 42

They did name one after Daddy Bush though ... fair enough because he did fight in WWII in the Navy.

My apologies, I assumed everyone would know that, but you are right, we should explain that here.

In the US Navy's defense, they do have a "theme" where many aircraft carriers are named after U.S. Presidents:

USS John F Kennedy
USS Dwight D Eisenhower
USS Thodore Roosevelt
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS George Washington
USS Harry S. Truman
USS Ronald Reagan
USS George H.W. Bush
USS Gerald R. Ford

"Daddy Bush" was indeed a real honest-to-god carrier pilot, and actually did real honest-to-god fighting. He had already been admitted to Yale, with the war time draft deferment to go with it, but joined the Navy instead. He became the Navy's youngest pilot. He was shot down while bombing a Japanese radio tower on Chichi Jima, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. (His plane was hit and on fire but he finished his bombing run first before bailing out).

My not so funny joke was pointing out that things were going to get a lot less defensible if they continued to follow the calendar and named the next two after Clinton and Baby Bush. (See, ma, bipartisan dissing!)

USS Gerald R. Ford? You have to be kidding me. What's next. USS Chevy Chase?

They wanted to name one after Bush, but they didn't want it to look bad. Solution: name a different one after Gerald.

we can't seem to fight a ground war against a 14th century tribal rabble armed with 1950's eastern bloc shit without getting our stuff blown up all the time...

The problem is, we want to fight the war without blowing THEIR stuff up. Obviously we could "glass" the place. The Mongol's conquered that place (and just about every other place) easily. Their approach: "kiss our toes or we will kill every single person in your entire tribe." The longstanding way to conquer Afghanistan is to just drive through. If someone shoots at you from the hills, drive to the nearest village and shoot everyone there, then burn the crops and kill/steal all the livestock. As a matter of fact, you don't really need to shoot the people. Taking away their food clothing and shelter works well enough. The "warriors" in those hills will starve to death, and the "warriors" in the next set of hills will decide not to shoot. They are utterly incapable of defending their farms/villages in a stand up fight. What we are trying to do is track down gang members without blowing up the civilian population's stuff. We have to do it because any central government we set up will be too corrupt to do it themselves. If we pull out, the punks will go back to setting up schools to teach brainwashed American kids how to build car bombs to explode in Times Square or Portland tree lighting ceremonies.

Of course this makes sense. Didn't you realize that this is the same logic used to justify the long standing practice of classifying hotels as power, water, and sewage utilities, as well as TV broadcasters, farmers, ranchers, etc. What is the difference?

True story that I witnessed myself: When a woman is about to deliver vaginally, there is a drape under her with plastic bags to collect the amniotic fluid and keep it from splashing all over the MD/midwife's legs and feet as they sit/stand there to help the baby out. In this case, the obstetrician dropped the baby as she came out (they are very slippery). By shear luck, the baby fell into the plastic bag instead of falling all the way to the floor. We all went "whew!" as the Daddy said "so THATS what that plastic bag is for!" Needless to say, we didn't correct him.

Somewhere out there Mullah Omar is reading Slashdot and thinking "Cool! Now I can send a DMCA take down notice and make these drones go away . Then I won't have to wear a burqa every time I set foot outside this cave."

Isn't it "Mémoires" not memories?

Who is freaking writing these web pages? It would have been easier to NOT include photo's and names

I'm not defending their choices, but there is a legitimate reason why they would do this. Some users mistype their username, not their password. This results in a "failed login" screen. If there is no photo (or name) they may assume they have mistyped their password, and keep trying it over and over. Throwing up the picture associated with that account helps the user figure out that the reason they can't log in is because they are mistyping their username, not their password.