I live for high upload:download ratios

when posed in evolutionary terms, the whole question comes down to a problem of the human desire for classification versus nature's complete lack of giving a shit about that desire.

You're my hero today. Wish I had mod points. :)

You haven't been to San Francisco, have you? :)

Easy to buy a car, not so easy to park it. Friends of mine who realized their dream of moving to the big city ended up moving back to the suburbs after less than a year because the daily job of finding parking took about an hour and a half. That's 10% of your waking life gone with nothing to show for it.

Seriously, ask any San Francisco resident, a story about a great parking spot is enough to bring a tear to their eye.

Let's get closer to the mark and make it a felony for a candidate to accept money from anyone who isn't eligible to vote for them. Fewer felons to keep track of that way. :)

The US system of justice gives the jury the authority to set the amount. The rule telling them what amounts are permissible is written into the DMCA. The DMCA was passed unanimously by the US Congress (except one abstention, I think). So that's who.

And since the statutory limits are between $750 and $150,000 per work infringed, the jury essentially answered the question "on a scale from 0 to 10, how willfully did she infringe the copyrights?" with a 5.3

So overall, I don't think it was the jury who was a bunch of dumb-asses.

Whereas today's hottest technologies are texting and Twitter. Stop. Which are very different from the telegraph in... some way. Stop.

So long, Anonymous Coward. We'd miss you if we knew who you were.

You have some breathing room. It will take Verizon at least a year to figure out how to disable all of the iPhone's features so their customers have to buy them back one at a time.

If we're really paranoid, we can apply DSI and DigSig modules to our kernel, to prevent binaries from running, except properly signed ones.

Sadly, they stopped maintaining these projects last week. So it's not supportable unless you're willing to maintain the code yourself or take up a collection.

Predated by a couple of decades in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". Herbert Lom has a spy camera in his fake eye to elude a full-body security search.

Robots also don't experience fear, doubt, or vanity. Plus they need no fuel, no maintenance, and are impervious to physical damage.

You can't think of a single reason? Really?

Seriously, when has a technical prediction made by Bill Gates or any Microsoft "spokesman" ever come true? For real, please point to one - I'll be glad to be enlightened.

Financial predictions - that's another story. They can rig those. :)

Many (more than half?) states in the US have laws that require companies/institutions to report the loss of this kind of data. The first obligation is to report the loss to the subjects of the data so they can take steps to protect themselves.