I'll slippery slope it for you very easily. Alphabet soup organization says they suspect this feature will help them fight terrorism, and the courts allow it because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a car. If I'm not mistaken (and I probably am considering how long ago I learned this), the reason the police have the right to search your vehicle without a warrant is because you are using a public road with no reasonable expectation of privacy.

How can this be abused? A politician driving with a young man or woman that is not their significant other can easily be blackmailed. A private citizen could have the same thing done to them.

I hope everyone makes a huge stink about this, and I hope the media covers it like a celebrity death. Then I hope that whoever was thinking about doing this is so ashamed of the negative publicity that they burn every last schematic, design, and prototype.

Get it?? Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.

Considering the amount of liability that BP has potentially accrued, I'd say it is in their best interests to get this race going as quickly as possible. This other oil spill today only highlights our need for this technology ASAP.

The parent is absolutely right. People like to justify Drepper's behavior by saying that it does not impact the quality of work. That justification could possibly be the stupidest and most wrong thing I've ever heard -- in the history of humankind.

There used to be this absolute tool on the gamedev.net forums, and maybe he was Drepper in disguise. The person was extremely smart, but he would go out of his way to be curt to posters. Hi s justification was that being civil and polite is not efficient. I'd be willing to cede that to him, but he, and everyone like him, miss the more important point: you're useless to the team if you can't work with the team.

What I want know is why do people do it, what drives that behavior? Do they get some kind of kick out of being unnecessarily hostile?

Ladies, and Gentlemen (mainly gentlemen, I mean it is slashdot),

I believe it is time for Science to sacrifice itself in the name of adorability. The picture of this bat is ruined, knowing that it met its untimely demise shortly after.

I propose from here onwards, all evidence suggesting that the bat died is completely disregarded. The bat made it into space, and is now enjoying life in the cosmic wind. That is all we need to know.