People who want to make a positive difference are frequently more of a problem than those who are corrupt, since that "positive difference" usually ends up as their personal interpretation of "how things should be." That's often very narrow-minded and rigid, and ends up harming anyone they contact who might fall even slightly out of their concept of how exactly one should behave.

In addition, the power that comes from being able to control others based solely on the group one belongs to is incredibly corrupting. It can easily turn otherwise rational humans into the sleaziest, nastiest people you'd ever have the misfortune to meet.

If the new page layout is actually rolled out, I will stop visiting Slashdot completely.

On the flip side, the OP being obtuse has provided repeated opportunities for those who will actually read the comments to come to the conclusion they shouldn't talk to the police if they didn't know that already. So the OP beating a dead horse may actually help make more people exercise care when interacting with armed agents of the State, even if that's the opposite of what the OP seems to want.

Every traffic stop is backed up by the threat of deadly force being used against you. There is always a threat from the police.

The US government is designed to prevent majority rule, because majority rule is frequently a very bad thing.

We don't need no stinkin' Constitutional amendments to change the Constitution. We just need a bunch of people to say "but please think of the poor (whatthehellever)!"

Actually, without a severability clause, it would render the entire Act void.

Propositions work pretty well in Washington, but there are fewer uninformed idiots here than in California apparently.

But it's only a "democratic action" if it supports my pre-conceived notions of what's the right course of action! Anything else is not democratic!

Only if he caps the speech by shooting himself in the head with it.

Actually, there are a lot of people who would like to see a default, particularly if it lead to the dissolution of the US.

It's too bad the US doesn't work that way. (And I really do mean it's too bad.)

Unless they have hardware exploits I'm unaware of, they present exactly the same attack vectors based on the software installed. If you're running a Linux-based router, it'll have the same vector profile as a Linux-based PC router.

Since embedded devices frequently are far behind the update curve, they can actually present far more of a risk than a PC-based router.

The word used was "teenager," not "child." Someone who is 19 is still a teenager, since the number ends with the suffix "teen."

If it was coercion into physical sexual contact between the blackmailer and the victim, it would be rape. That's not what happened. Rape requires actual physical contact between the perpetrator and the victim. Anything else is not rape, and attempting to redefine the word strictly for shock factor is intellectual fraud.