Not only that but it's much easier as you don't have to do peer-reviewed science and get a roomful of PHDs trying to knock down your study. Instead you get to present to credulous dummies.

funny

Less forgiving? I have to call BS on that one.

No one is less forgiving than the general public paying nothing.

I award you one Fail Whale.

A lot of corporations say that just before the aging, expensive legacy technology they can't do without goes permanently tits-up, or gets replaced by a small, intelligent team.

I agree, but I think it's an age and culture issue. These issues are new.

In 10 years, no one would expect that a Twitter account couldn't be connected to your FB account any more than they would think you could cheat on your partner by taking your partner-in-crime to a pub you and your date frequent. The principle is no different - if two social spheres overlap, you've given up your relative anonymity.

That's why Larry Craig tapped his toe in an airport bathroom in a stop-over airport - low likelihood of running into someone who might know him.

I knew what movie it was without clicking the link.

I clicked anyway to prove it. Therefore I rate the link entertaining as is.

"Today's 2000-era generation thinks it's perfectly okay to tap into their neighbor's wireless internet, even though it's costing their neighbor extra money"

LOL! Extra money. That's a good one. Actually I think it's generally perfectly fine to use someone's wireless precisely because it is not costing them extra money when I do. My wireless is open - and if someone abused it, I would close it, not complain.

But as to propriety: with the ubiquity of wifi and laptops, anyone miffed that someone used their unsecured wireless deserves about as much sympathy as sone who stands in front of their window, naked, without the curtains drawn, but is offended at the inconsiderate behavior of those who look.

Massive abuse of Google's SMS service is, while wrong, predictable.

I was wondering the same thing - about the metal-metal contact being used to pick out what's being fretted.

And one could *hear* the actual sound coming from the guitar in a game with virtual amps.

The other tricky part concerns how clever the gameplay is. If you can sound great but get terrible scores, it's not necessarily going to be that much fun.

I play guitar, not Guitar Hero. The game's going to have to be fun for people like me to be anything more than a gimmick variant of guitar hero. But a good game - with a variety of good music, not just the entire Aerosmith catalog - that I would play.

Wow, I had better throw away my BSD and Linux boxes then. They have suid programs that run code with admin privileges without user confirmation!

Every word of this is 100% true.

Mmm. I do think we all need it - but in my experience it's about 1% of the time I use the internet. The rest of the time I much prefer the anonymity. I'm not even sure the cost of ACs is that high, properly managed. I refuse to read the comments section of any newspaper. For some reason they are filled with an incredibly virulent right-wing minority. I'm sure the purpose is to fool the already credulous "journalists" into thinking this is what "people" really think. OK, that's depressing, but the alternative is worse.

The old East Germany used to have licenses for typewriters so they could track the output of any particular machine. Who are the fucking psychos insisting we need to give "the authorities" far greater powers to track and punish? How, in particular, did they get to call themselves "conservatives" in America? It's a radical and dangerous opinion. And the "liberal" NYTimes is giving it credence for some reason. It's not to assist Obama, you can be sure of that.

Soft, chewy interiors. Not much else to say about gated communities, except that they sound like incredibly sterile, boring places to live.

The UN? Please, take off the tin foil hat, step away from the keyboard, and prepare yourself for the bad news.

It's not the UN you have to fear. Far from it. It's the first local folks who don't like what you have to say.

Think smoking pot isn't a big deal? Most Americans don't. But if you boss can find out you said that... well, chilling effects are a bummer, dude.

Partner swapping? Amatuer fireworks? Liking big guns? Owning internet security tools? Taking apart the technology you "own"? Whistleblowing of any kind? Say, "my peanut-butter plant is filthy?" Yes, you had better fear the loss of anonymity. There are lots of people who don't want you to have it.

But the UN? Bitch, please.

It was overall a terrible, fear-mongering article. It reduced IPv6 to a single, rather inaccurate sentance.

OK, put your tin foil hat back on now. Live in fear of the wrong things, asshole. Fearing the UN is like waiting for the Care Bare invasion.

How many fucking millions did it take to put up these cameras in the first place? How much does it cost to maintain them, yearly?

Dumb-ass brown-nosing 1984 loser "journalists" should be asking these questions. They won't.

Nor will they ask whether the cameras have solved or deterred even a single crime. Because they don't fucking care about liberty in the first place.

The fourth estate is basically a zombie wing of the GOP at this point. Reporters and producers may be "liberal", but in my experience they are pretty middle of the road (having personally known quite a few). Editors, owners, and executive producers, on the other hand, are decidedly right-wing. They are rich assholes, aristocrats, and lawyers, and occasionally, rich conservatives (because they like their money) with liberal sympathies who can't understand what actual people are upset about; the rest of them are worse. And they get to decide what gets published or put on the air.

Liberal media my fucking asshole.

Meh. DiFi isn't much of a Democrat and never has been. She's probably to the right of Collins and Snowe on most issues. She's a good example of the kind of Republican that could get elected in her neck of the woods, but not much else.

Pointless cynicism is often funny, but your target is too slim to succeed here.