Or both, since both sides call anything they don't like a socialist or teabagger, if you propose something that neither side likes, you're a Socialist Teabagger.

they are humorless old farts who wouldn't appreciate a great movie if it bounced off of a trampoline into their back yard.

Speaking of trampolines, it looks like Siskel hated The Big Lebowski, too.

"Hello, I'm from the maintenance department and I'm here to update your firmware to protect you from the exploit that was recently published on 2013-10-13."

your parents buy you a health insurance plan before you're born

Hm, that's a bit farther than I'd go, but I had a similar idea based on the fact that I could get 3 million dollars in life insurance for about half the premium cost of a health insurance plan that had a 3 million dollar lifetime cap prior to obamacare: Buy health insurance when you're young and healthy, keep it forever, just like life insurance.

That said, half the reason why we have the ACA now is that in the run up to passing obamacare, insurance companies worked as hard as possible to make themselves be the assholes that needed the government to rein them in. You'd buy your 3 million dollar health insurance plan, and then the insurance company would say "oh nevermind" and cancel it once you hit the $500000 mark.

They're also generally not covered by insurance, which means the doctor doesn't have to guess what 20% of your insurance company is going to pay for the procedure so he can tell you up front what your share of it is.

Unless someone shows otherwise, the apps mentioned seem to do what the software developers who created them made them do.

Does the app cause the phone to broadcast on the international avalanche transceiver standard 457kHz band? No? Then enjoy hearing the rescuers crunch by overhead while they look for you.

Correction: The documents were returned once cleared.

Corrected Correction: The documents were returned once photocopied.

Richard Nixon ring a bell?

Ding Dong, that's the sound of Ford pardoning Nixon because we're a nation of men, not of laws.

sure it does. (x + 10) mod 10 = x, (binary + trojan) mod trojan = binary

At this point it means that if you go through the source code and understand it, you know what the truecrypt binaries are doing, because you can be pretty sure (modulo built-in compiler exploits affecting both your and their compiler the same way) their binaries match the source code.

It also doesn't help when the patent holder doesn't make anything but lawsuits.

BTW, the free software movement has a cross-licensing pool already.

Sadly it looks like we're wrong on all three counts.

You keep insisting that there will be a cheap plan, yet I'm not aware of a single ISPs introducing a new cheap capped plan, every ISP I know of that introduced data caps, they simply capped their existing plan, kept the price, and added a charge (or shut you off) for going over.

Actually, they asked the SEC to bail them out and got the boot. They had to do a round of private investment and diluted shareholders' value quite a bit. It's generally cited as the "right way" to deal with companies that fuck up and lose billions. Shame we can't do the same with the banks.