It's times like this that Slashdot SERIOUSLY needs a +1000, Totally Pwned moderation.

Regardless of whether or not I have any opinion for or against the bill, you win this thread hands down.

So did everyone else. The original point still stands.

Asshat: "All of Slashdot is an entire hivemind, but look at me, *I* think different (even though I consistently ignore moderations that don't prove my point)!" (+4 Insightful)

Great, Twitter on air traffic control frequencies.

Yeah, or as Marvel put it: The Punisher.

There's a character that epitomizes the "Oh, I'd only do GOOD things" principle, and where it inevitably leads. And this is a guy without any "powers" to speak of.

Missing option: Directive

And I'm not even a Trek fan. What's Slashdot coming to?

(complaining about poll options while responding to a comment about poll options on a poll for poll options - I've hit a new level of meta-craptacularness)

Bookends.

RSA's product is indeed SecureID. Several other companies produce similar products. I carry several on my keychain for various purposes, it's a pain in the ass. Thankfully the batteries last 3-5 years on them so at least you're not always replacing the damn things.

How do you do it? Call the CC 800 number?

Basically, yes. Talk to a CSR at the CC company.

If so, what prevents me from calling and saying I'm you and that I'm in Milan?

The same way you're prevented from calling the CC company and changing my address, or calling my bank and wire transferring money into your account, or 300 other nasty things you could think up. They do have *some* security on your account that way - they ask you enough personal information that they're satisfied it's you.

You don't travel much and/or own a credit card, do you? This has been routine practice for decades.

We played freeze tag in the early 80s, long before video games even HAD a pause function (first one was 1982 that I can think of). My older siblings played it in the 1970s.

If anything, kids are just expanding that concept and likely incorporating the concept of a "time out", as invented by parents as a form of discipline. Although again "time outs" long pre-date anything remotely modern. Sporting events have had them for ages.

"Brittnie"? ::facepalm::

Sounds like a strategy the RIAA/MPAA are working hard on embracing.

Yeah, and electric motors won't be waking me up at 3am when some jackass decides to express his "soul" down my street. I'm sure going to miss that.

Yeah, it's at /index.html.

The regulators were tasked to check that the companies followed the procedures for checking their own operations.

This, incidentally, is exactly how SoX compliance functions. And what makes it entirely worthless.