If there were ever a controversial vaccine called VMS, there be a bunch of old guys chuckling to themselves whenever the anti-vaxers were discussed.

That's one of the big problems with the anti-vaxers, too: the false belief that one vaccine causes autism gets extended to a false belief that all vaccines cause autism, or other bad things.

It's really easy to change careers at 55. Get laid off. Look for work for a year. Take whatever the Hell you can find. Bingo! You're in a new career!

Other articles on /. have brought out commenters claiming if they ever even see someone wearing Google Glass, they'd punch the person in the face. The simple act of wearing the device is apparently sufficient justification for otherwise unprovoked assault.

Cops wearing Google Glass could be your opportunity!

Let us know how it goes.

Eventually, of course, this leads to robots powered by beer.

Yes, that's correct. Maybe Slashdot could build that into the filter: don't show any Anonymous Cowards, and don't show anyone who has ever made a typo in a comment. Ever.

I suspect there's an increased chance of jail when the person punched says to the cop "I have video."

And the person punching a person with a recording device buys an assault charge. That is just the price to be paid. Don't play the game if you can't take the blame.

In US terms, the contract in this case would be to deliver Tearaway. The "improper" fulfilment of that contract was that the delivery was a bundle of Tearaway+Vita. The buyer could then accept that as an adequate substitution, and consider the contract complete, or reject it. In this case, the reason for rejection presumably would be that they didn't feel morally justified in taking advantage of the company's mistake, since it is clearly a more than adequate "substitution" in objective terms.

Elsewhere in the thread, the example was used of a delivery of a medium shirt instead of a large, to show the absurdity of the idea of keeping the medium *and* demanding the originally ordered large, or keeping the medium *and* disputing the credit card charge. Yes, that would be absurd, but it would also be absurd for the shirt company to contact the buyer afterward and *insist* that the medium be returned for exchange for a large, even if it turned out the medium was acceptable.

"The Leaf owner in question is a habitual troublemaker who violated orders of the property owner already (per the link to 11alive.) He also argued with the cop and refused to admit a mistake. (If he did that, the cop would let him go.)

Well, sure, if you're going to go ahead and read the linked article that shows it's not really about stealing electricity.

From the article, I see the guy had previously been explicitly told by the school not to use the tennis courts without permission. He wasn't even supposed to be there, so maybe in hindsight the correct charge would have been trespassing. And, also in hindsight, maybe being such a dick didn't really work out that well for the guy.

The fact that someone was able to access and get out of the NSA systems the range of data that Snowden was apparently able to do was a demonstration of a dramatic failure in security compartmentalization in the NSA. For an ultra-high security setup, the systems administrator needs to have file access to move stuff around, but should not have data access to the internals of the databases. The content people -- analysts and the like -- need to have secure db access to those projects and that data appropriate to their roles, but should not have direct copy access to the files. It sounds like this guy Winter talking about abysmal corporate security would have had a hand in setting up those failed NSA systems. So, is Winter out there talking about how companies should not do as he did?

If God is believed to be omniscient, then only for God is the World deterministic, and thus only God lacks free will.

I recall a friend telling me years ago that when he went to work at Raytheon, he asked why there was a big triangle of the employee parking lot that was unused. It turned out that there was a microwave transmitter pointed that way that was still strong enough in that area that car upholstery and such would break down in just a couple of months of exposure. Hmmm. Not exactly "melting" the cars, but I would want to give that a good wide berth.

Maybe they could put a big sculpture of an ant at the focal point.

When one of the pagers on your ammo belt beeped, did you throw it like a grenade and hide?