Maykin Amerka grate agen!!

It's important that the US government, the primary creator of forced backdoors and exploits, can make sure code doesn't have... oh.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and patch everything in my home due the the huge cache of zero day exploits the NSA were hoarding, rather than reporting, until they got leaked.

So the federal government should only buy American where comparable American products exist?

But you start playing the protectionist game and other countries' governments may return the favor you've shown to their economies by ordering non American whenever a comparable product exists.

How well do you think Lockheed and Boeing will do when they're shut out of all European defense contracts because EADS, British Aerospace and SAAB all make comparable products?

How much do you think the already massively cost overrunning F-35 will cost when you can only spread the development cost over US only sales? It's a project that only got off the ground because they figured in export sales to people like the U.K.

It seems ironic that one faction within the US believes that a free market with minimal government involvement to skew that market is the key to success... except when it's politically expedient to add extra federal process to avoid a free market.

I can't wait for the TSA to start scrawling on my face that I'm singled out for extra molestation.

We can't exactly explain how the human brain works, how it makes decisions, when humans drive or make medical decisions.

So I guess we're banning all the things until we can explain them fully?

If you're going to kick people out for elaborate fantasies, are they going to ban anyone that calls that admin interface user friendly? ;)

It's not like America's Commander In Chief would be stupid enough to refuse a secure cell phone just so he can continue his 3am Twitter on the shitter regimen.

Oh god. We're all doomed.

Why are parents insecure asshats? The answer lies in the title.

If people were secure in themselves, they wouldn't need to bring a life into this world to give their own lives meaning.

To be fair, some don't bring children into the world just to validate their existence. We call this second set "poor planners." Though, arguably, that doesn't help the demographic much.

I started this reply joking. Having thought it through, I'm not so sure I am anymore.

Proudly hiding goatse in links, blaming Cowboy Neal, stating 640kb Will Be Enough For Anyone and wondering about Beowulf Clusters Of... on Slashdot since 1998.

The internet was always an unregulated Wild West. We were just so happy for the good it brought that the bad was worth it. Then we got used to its ubiquity, took the good for granted and the bad started getting under our skin.

At least the title isn't:

"US President uses Mexicans to distract populace during $hit$how."

I think you're confusing those nations for Saudi Arabia who, despite supplying most of the 9/11 terrorists, would be politically inconvenient to treat as harshly. Same goes for Pakistan.

Once you exclude nations that actually produce the majority of attackers of the US as the criteria for the ban, what are you left with?

Hmm. Looks mostly like nations that are sending huddled masses the US doesn't want got targeted plus a couple of others for political vendettas.

Classy.

When you have a display that can handle the frame rate necessary to alternate the picture anyway... what's the cost?

By all means, stop packing 3D glasses in. Make them a separate purchase for those who want them.

But why not offer the feature for those who want it when the hardware already does everything you need and it costs essentially nothing more?

If anything, the moment for glasses is finally here. Yeah, they still suck to wear. But the next major complaint was that they darkened the picture. Yet Samsung's doubled picture brightness this year. You can have each eye blacked out half of the time and still have as bright a picture as last year's glassesless version.

So, sure, most people don't use it much. But when it's essentially free, why not check that box for the 1% who do want it?