At least in the US, you're way out of date. Lifetime limits became illegal in 2010, under the Affordable Care Act. Annual limits may currently be no less than $2 million, and will be outlawed entirely as of 2014.

Disagreeing with the above AC is one thing. Disagreeing with established fact and reality is quite another. It is not acceptable to teach things in school that are demonstrably false.

"Texas! You did something right!"

But in communist Russ^H^H^H^HChina, the government rewards you for hacking American networks!

He did not say "before you break the law." He said, "before you do something to end up on the wrong side of an Assistant US Attorney." These are two different things.

I don't think your point #2 would hold up to a statistical analysis of /. comments. I think there are far more posts condemning the DOJ (in general, and this specifically) than condoning their actions.

As for Manning, I think it goes either way because of the whole "he took an oath" thing. That is, a reporter's job is to ferret out secrets, a soldier's job is to keep them. Personally I have a low level of support Manning, but I see the other side and don't condemn it. (You're welcome, if you have strong feelings against Manning. You can sleep soundly knowing you are not condemned by Slashdot poster "meta-monkey." Huzzah.)

Completely fucked.

You're a bunch of liars, hypocrites, and assholes. And do feel free to give it a shot, we have excellent anti-SLAPP provisions in my state.

I came here to post that exact thing. Sad indeed.

At least in the US, jamming done by private entities is illegal. The RF paint? Maybe, but I can't imagine shoppers being too happy about going to a place their devices don't work. If I found out a store were doing that intentionally, I'd probably not return.

But you realize their central banks are just printing that money out of thin air, right? That's basically just more debt.

More readily, they'll just go someplace else that's free. The reason these services have the price tag of "free" is because they are so commoditized and have practically zero cost per user. Running a datacenter is expensive, yes, but not per email user. So when you put tumblr behind a pay wall, people won't pay, and they won't quit posting furry porn, they'll just move on to "tmblr" and post there, until Yahoos buys them, too, but that will be the end of it because there's no more vowels left to remove from the name.

But that would be a Sudden Outbreak of Common Sense, and those have been illegal for neigh on 30 years now.

I've made it exceptionally clear that I am not available 24x7. If my boss would like me to be on call for some period, I'm willing to discuss that, but it needs to be arranged in advance for a clear time period.

If some communication is coming in for work right now, I don't even know about it and I'll handle it on Tuesday, given the 3-day weekend. Weekends are not "extra work days", they are my time to relax, unwind, and come back to the office ready to do a much better job than if I were constantly tired, fatigued, and burnt out. Ultimately, that benefits my employer, too.

But you also have to have good tests. And automated tests. I have had "agile" projects where the "testing" I was required to do consisted of basically making sure that when you SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEES, Oracle DB did, in fact, return the contents of the Employees table. Not that the records are in any way accurate, or entered correctly, or used properly, or make sense in the context of the application. Just that the database server is a database server. TESTED. APPROVED. I felt like this guy: http://weknowmemes.com/2011/12/identifying-wood-yep-its-wood/

And when I pointed out to the PM that this is dumb, and does not in any way validate the modules we've developed, I was told to shut up and do it because "this is what the client wants!" That project did not end well.