Can you imagine the sheer horror of politicians who would be forced to think about what they say before letting it escape their mouths or before they click the submit button on their computers?

If they have an intern sending their tweets, are these people so short on time that they don't have time to personally view and approve messages before they are broadcast to the entire world? If they don't understand the consequences of using a communications tool, perhaps they shouldn't be using it? Or perhaps they should be employing some more mature and trustworthy interns? Or perhaps ones that can explain the Streisand effect to them?

Being too late to stop changes from happening is not a good reason to stop efforts to limit how bad it gets. That's like saying "I'm already going to hit the car in front of me, so why use my brakes before impact?"

Well, it could spell the difference between a dented bumper and slaughtering everyone in both cars.

For a while I've been imagining a device like this, if it could be properly targeted, would be able to remove specific antibodies from the blood stream, and effectively remove unwanted allergies while leaving the properly-functioning part of the immune system intact.

That works out to one car stolen about every hour and 15 minutes. I imagine the folks there are a bit fed up with it.

If humans had perfect and infallible memory that they could also pass directly on to others without distortion, our concept of privacy would be very different from what it is today. We live in a time when police can storm a business and smash the existing surveillance system the owners have in place, then argue (unsuccessfully, thank Buddha) that the footage from the one camera they missed shouldn't be admissible because they had an expectation of privacy. Yet the government sees no problem with virtually following each of us everywhere in our private lives as if they were electronic papparazzi.and we were Daniel Radcliffe walking hand-in-hand with a micro-bikini-clad Kim Cardassian. And people don't notice electronic privacy violations like what Penelope Garcia does several times a minute without any kind of warrant in the show Criminal Minds. There are many, many powers and tools that could be given to police to aid them in fighting crime, but it is a certainty that each and every one of them will be abused - police (I'm told) are every bit as human as anyone else, and they don't lie any less than anyone else. So said tools and powers given to them absolutely must be limited by our constitutional and human rights.

It's a cookbook!

And propane. Don't forget the propane.

Someone should explain to the folks paying for the advertisements that when you have visually intrusive ads, ads that start playing sound, or ads that obscure the content, there's only two options available to the person viewing the page: close the tab right away, or use an ad blocker. The more intrusive and annoying the ad, the more likely I am to harbor bad feelings about product being advertised, stop buying their crap, and will bad-mouth their products all over social media. Likewise, someone should explain to the sites that hosting the ads that allowing keyword ads and things that bring up popups while browsing the site may pay you more per visitor, but it also assures that I'll not be visiting your site to see those ads. Would you prefer $.02 per visitor for 200 visitors, or %.01 per visitor for 10,000 visitors? As far as the people that create the ad software itself, they really don't give a fuck if it harms your experience with the site you are visiting, or how their tactics harm the perception of the advertisers - they only care about getting their number of ads served as high as possible so their paycheck is bigger, even if it is actual malware they are serving. That many folks would take great joy in working them over with a baseball bat isn't a deterrent. The only way to really get them to change is to attack their pocketbook.

You're going to find this hard to believe, but there are residences who have more than one person using the internet at a time. If you've got 2 roommates, will your 3Mbps connection be any good if someone else is using Netflix, Hulu, or YouTube (lol - fairly demanding?) at the same time?

Sure, your download only took 20 minutes - but that's 20 minutes that you can't be doing much of anything else over the internet. Is that download actively holding your attention? Or perhaps it's time to pick up a book while your connection is tied up.

Another point being that people don't want to have to "make do" with a connection they are paying more for than most of the rest of the world, and getting at best half of the speed.

DSL has a range limit of about 12,500 feet from the central office, or from the vault location they run fiber to from the CO, and a preference to be under 10,000 feet. Considering the large price for the equipment to support it from the telco side, they're not going to put that equipment in if there's only 4-6 customers within range and it'll take 20+ years at that rate to pay off that equipment. At best they'll get that equipment as a hand-me-down when it's been ripped out of someplace else that has been upgraded 2-3 steps higher if the telco is feeling generous, and if the more expensive equipment isn't cheaper to maintain. Population density does matter, in that the company doesn't want to lay out the cash to serve areas that will take a long time to pay them back their investment - unless there's good publicity for them rolled in with it, too.

Is that you, Buffalo Bill?

Wouldn't that limit them to only having one truck on the hill at a time?

Oh, I bend over backwards for women. Thrust me on that.

I'm waiting for Apple to accuse them of stealing this idea from them. Their late 80s video "Knowledge Navigator" constitutes copyright on the idea, right? \

24 additional satellites added to the 5 currently orbiting mars will add a level of complexity to any new probes sent - they have more obstacles to avoid on their approach. The good news is that the gps ones will be broadcasting a gps signal, so it wouldn't be too hard to design a new craft to avoid those 24. 24 new launches to Mars could give the private space launch business a boost. Or would we try to send all 24 in one or two bundles? Can we be sure they won't interfere with the Martian's gps system? We don't want them breaking out their PU-238 Space Modulators....