...except for the little-known fact that every single legislator and President (who chooses the Supreme Court) is elected by the citizens -- with no exceptions. If you grabbed every single person who doesn't vote and convinced them to get off their ass and vote for inherently good candidates there would be no problems. Unless you believe that then some secret evil force would rise up, kill everyone who was elected, declare martial law, and end voting, at which point the people would no longer be responsible for the government's problems.

I'm guessing you weren't on AA Flight 11 nine or so years ago.

You can tell the name "LibreOffice" was chosen by several guys who communicated primarily via the internet. In the real world, it's very difficult to say "Libre" correctly without a Spanish accent, and I believe it's only going to continue to hinder the widespread acceptance of OO.o.

Thanks for making me chuckle this afternoon.

I'm very happy about this update. I've been wondering if I ever wrote anything questionable on my Facebook profile; once this feature is offered to me, I will download everything and scan through it.

Correct. But how are you rewarding a group of neurons?

Yes you do. Name one part of a living organism (excluding the "soul") that makes it any different from a sufficiently complex machine.

The submitter should use something like Visual Basic (6.0 or .NET, whichever is more suitable for the OS) to program a custom "virus" that can do whatever he wants it to do. After giving them several tips and letting them attempt to diagnose/fix it, he can simply tell the students exactly how to disable it from doing what it does (pop-ups, file deletion, keyboard hooks, phoning home, etc). It's exactly what I would do and it would provide the students with a great hands-on learning experience.

So many wasted modpoints in the first thread and this guy is still at +1 -- mod this man up.

It's the fact that you even included the word "might" that made him respond to you; it's very probable that there is no "might," and it is simply too difficult for the laws of physics.

O RLY?

Touche, monsieur.

That's a real neat piece of software; very interesting. Do you use it? If so, question: is it difficult to use? They make it look so easy to write "Hello, How are you?" but I feel like it would be difficult to accurately point to the letters quickly enough.

I don't believe any of that. If I don't make spelling errors (type carefully) they cannot determine that. They also cannot determine identities via search info, too many combinations that too many people would share.

The Earth and Neptune and Sirius are all affected by gravity, why don't they simply clump up? Dark matter is quite accurately simulated in this endeavour, though we are unsure of the direct significance of the results. The dark matter reacts to semi-traditional gravitational forces, but only with other dark matter. Dark matter does not, in any way, react with the normal matter we are familiar with; this is because dark matter is simply the type of unusual matter that a black hole spits out once it absorbs regular matter.

The only possible interaction we could have with dark matter is when you turn on a walkie-talkie and hear static -- that static is deemed unpredictable simply because we can't model the dark matter creating it precisely enough. One of the reasons dark matter doesn't directly interact with light matter is because it can actually have nine electrons in its valence shell, hence making it unable to "fit" into the aether that we have access to. That being said, it is nearly impossible to accurately simulate its behavior and the scientists who took on this endeavour are to be praised for effort but ignored for their 'precision'.

How much more transparent does it get then "buy [x]" and "sell [x]" - what more would you like access to? And before anyone spouts off I trade options and currency.