There's a lot of Unity hate going on, and I admit, when it first launched it was an utter failure. You couldn't resize the icon bar, it was missing a lot of useful keyboard shortcuts, searching for a program didn't allow you to directly launch with the keyboard and it was otherwise just generally unusable. I decided to give it another shot recently, however, and it's come a long way, even matured into a fully usable and efficient UI. I can auto-hide the iconbar, resize it, and the search box is fantastic! If you press the "Windows" key, it opens up the search interface. You don't even have to type the name of the app you want, just start typing what you want to do! For instance, if I type in "gam" brings up Steam, Minecraft and ScummVM. If I hit enter, the first item in the search results will launch. Then I discovered the new keyboard shortcuts. Hold down the Windows key and a keyboard shortcut cheatsheet will appear, and they are incredibly useful. I am now a fan of Unity.

Let's be realistic. Fake boarding passes aren't a threat to the TSA. The only purpose to the TSA of checking your boarding pass before entering the security checkpoint is to keep from unnecessarily screening people who aren't flying. It keeps your mother from cluttering up the naked-scanner for everyone else who's flying if she just wants to kiss you before you fly away. If someone prints a fake boarding pass to get past the TSA, they still won't be able to get on the flight. They're going to be able to buy a Maxim at Hudson News and an 8 hour old sandwich and nothing more. And even if they are able to board the flight, they won't have a seat assigned so they run the risk of being caught by a flight attendant before takeoff and getting arrested. No, someone who poses a real terror threat won't present a fake boarding pass to the TSA because that could blow their whole plot if they get caught with it before takeoff. I find it hilarious when suddenly everyone on Slashdot becomes a security expert.

Um... http://xkcd.com/102/ (obligatory xkcd reference)

The world was on the brink of war before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. That was merely the excuse for starting the war. But there would have been another excuse to go to war, and it still would have happened.

You could use the PwdHash website directly in that case.

Paper clips happen to be magnetic, and are a great tool for illustrating magnetism not only between a steel object and a magnet, but between a magnetized piece of steel and another piece of steel (two paper clips). I am at a loss as my science kit when I was little came with sharp nails instead of paper clips. I thought paper clips were a progression in safety.

That's absurd. You'd be doing more to restrict people caught texting while driving than those that have been convicted of DUI or other more significant infractions. Plus, every douchebag with a chip on his shoulder would call the number and report the person whether they were texting or not, just because they didn't feel the person had their signal light on far enough in advance of changing lanes. Those calls would have to go somewhere, and chances are there'd be thousands of offenders with those stickers on their vehicles, so now you're talking about building a new government dispatch center to manage these reports, plus dispatching on them to investigate. That's assuming you wouldn't have these calls burdening existing 911/emergency dispatch centers (please tell me you wouldn't). Police departments would be too busy responding to "OMG SHE/HE'S TEXT MESSAGING AGAIN!" that they wouldn't be able to respond to nuisance false burglar alarms and other useless things that distract them from fighting crime. And granted it would be "easy to prove" someone was texting, but not without subpoenaing their cell phone records, which means now we would have to burden the justice system as well. I hope you're not a politician.