The boa then proceeded to test the fences, systematically looking for weaknesses.

The boa then proceeded to test the fences, looking for weak spots.

This is huge. If we can't trust the government not to leak classified data over P2P, what makes anyone think they will successfully keep our records private?

I hate to have to explain the joke, but since I don't have any mod points available... that's why he said branch office.

It is completely irresponsible for you to post this information on the public interwebs. I demand that you delete your post at once, or I will be forced to back trace your IP and report you to the cyber police. Don't try to raise any kind of First Amendment defense, because as we all know, national security trumps freedom of speech, and due to your carelessness a terrerist may learn how to make bubbles of doom.

Are you for real? Don't you know bubbles are a detergent? A DETERGENT for God's sake! The situation was on the precipice of doom. DOOOM!

My understanding is that the gate makes it illegal without a warrant.

But by your logic, I only had to do $100 of work to earn the $142.85 (you say the plumber does $70 of work for the $100). So there's no double dipping.

Citibank does this also (for credit cards.. not sure about check cards)

Troll? I guess it depends on how you define "serious" learning, but when I seriously needed to replace the headlight on my car, I seriously found a how-to online and seriously gained the knowledge of how to do it. Gaining knowledge that you did not have before is learning, in my book. Sorry if you don't think practical learning is "serious".

Negative, red leader!

I don't really use twitter, but doesn't the format itself make conversations that are "more than three levels deep" almost impossible because you can't preserve the context? Twitter itself knows how many times each tweet was accessed for display, which is probably proportional to the number of times it's been read. Those statistics would be more informative.

Ironically, however, by passing a progressive income tax, this guy might have ended up getting fire services subsidized by the more affluent folk in the neighboring city.

I assume that samzenpus is a pedophile and can attest that neither he or his sexually deviant buddies use pedobear except as an internet joke.

That's all you've seen, but have you been hanging out in REAL pedophile forums? Obviously pedobear started as a joke, but I'll fully admit I have no knowledge of whether the real pedophile community has adopted the image to communicate with each other. If (and its a big if) the police have real (i.e. not hypothetical) knowledge that real pedophiles use the image to communicate with each other, then the warning is appropriate (maybe they have undercovers in pedophile forums?).

I looked at the actual bulletin and it seemed to be a downright reasonable explanation of pedobear, minus the reference to "pedophiles and sexual deviants," which again I can't really dispute because I have no idea what those guys are doing!

That may work for data it stores, but what about data it sends? Of course, an elite hacker can make a remote computer blow up by sending a few choice lines of code over the network.