Today, the "border" includes everything within 100 miles of a coastline or Canada or Mexico: Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S..

I bet your kids are annoying as hell. If we're having a conversation about politics, I would want your kids to save questions for AFTER the adults are finished talking.

Under net neutrality it shouldn't really matter whether your content consumption is "legal" or not.

DId you mean Scientology?

Advertised broadband speeds vary from actual speeds. In North America, this is largely a result of "network overhead," and is quite modest. In Europe, however, the variation is often dramatic.

I live in San Francisco, where Comcast advertises 8Mbps. We actually get 1Mbps down. If you want the full 6Mbps, you have to live some place like San Mateo County, where they don't have insane oversubscription.

The Comcast drone I chatted with online asked me: "Would you like to avail the Comcast?" I don't even know what the F that means.

I'm the sort of watch freak who doesn't like electronic crap in my watches.

A friend of mine was high school math team captain, uses Mathematica at work every day, and owns a slide rule.

He also loves pro football.

I should have known!

Karl Marx quotation == bitter social science graduate who sold out and went into marketing.

Video of the game on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlsdNKPYw0s.

The article managed to work in a Karl Marx quotation--and it actually fits!

I am curious if John Carmack or his rocket brethren could build a better laser system for less.

The easiest way to avoid gaining fat is to decrease insulin production by avoiding carbs; no bread, pasta, or sugars other than those naturally occurring in fruits and vegetables. Then, eat more legumes and greens.

But the court also ruled that the school officials could not be held responsible for violating her rights (qualified immunity). FTA:

Dan Capra, a Fordham Law School professor, issued a statement in which he said that the fundamental question about the ruling in Safford Unified School District v. Redding, No. 08-479, is "is whether school officials will ever actually be liable for such searches."

"According to the court, the law on the subject was not clearly established, and so the officials had qualified immunity," Mr. Capra said. "But every case will be an application of law to fact. Officials now know they can't do exactly what was done in Safford. But what if there is any change of material fact in the circumstances?"

If they had called the cops, the cops would have been held to a higher standard. So any lawsuit won't win. (IMO, absurd.)

You mean like this guy?

Link? Citation? When has someone won a case like this?

Good point. Good development practices should have prevented a good portion of these issues, no matter which style.