we have found no major quality or technical problem' with the lithium-ion batteries
How about several (many?) minor issues that, when taken together, add up to "the problem"? Also, since at least, one of the batteries was fried almost beyond recognition (from a photo I saw), how do you know there was no problem?
So are only safe if we run an OS on an isolated partition which has nothing but a web browser and the other partitions are automatically unmounted while the web browser OS is working?
Actually, we are only safe while the system is powered off, disconnected from all cabling and still in the box it came in. Trust me. After dealing with security weenies and various system lock-down methodologies for many, many years, a truly "secure" system (to their satisfaction, anyway) is unusable and you might as well not even bother to unpack it.
Are auto-complete results even useful?
No and it's fucking annoying. I have it disabled and my proxy filter set to ensure it stays that way. I'll submit my search query when I'm damn good and ready.
Then he physically trespassed on MIT property, went into a wiring closet, and plugged into the MIT network. That is hacking.
That's *not* hacking, that's trespassing and/or breaking and entering.
Even in your adversarial system, there is neither a reason nor an expectation that the prosecutor should initially be making what were basically frivolous claims that go beyond all sane reason.
The reason the prosecutor can make those charges is because that's the law. I agree that the law is too strict, but you can't blame the prosecutor for that.
As someone who was at one time in serious trouble with the law, let me state that the prosecutor is only interested in a conviction, not justice - results, not right or wrong. The bigger the conviction/results, the better.
I am technically committing wire fraud by using an alias to (falsely) represent myself.
So, you're not actually "Creepy"? Damn.
It's happened before. We already have had terroristic attacks by radical Christians.
I'm not an expert, but I think things like that happened even before that:
Few groups (in general) are completely void of extremest nut-jobs.
That must be a pretty epic gun if it's able to create life...
I was talking more about ending life and/or manipulating lives. Any two (male + female) idiots can create a life. To answer your point, quoting someone from somewhere: This is my rifle, this is my gun. This is for fighting, and this is for fun....
I don't mean to sound too flippant about this, but isn't this around the time in the movie that a Morgan Freeman type of character says "People were not meant to play at god!"?
People play God all the time, just usually with guns, bombs, Wall Street, etc...
Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks.
Isn't it the ISP's *customers* that are using Google and YouTube? Don't those customers pay the ISPs, who, if not one-in-the-same, pay the network operators and any (negotiated) inter-connection fees? Seems the ISP/network operators just want in on a little double-dipping. Perhaps I'm naive, but aren't they greedy enough?
I fear there will be fewer and fewer people to argue with and it won't be a good thing.
There will be plenty of people to argue with, but it will be less and less effective.
So you're saying plenty of increasingly stupid people? That's probably worse, thanks.
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
