OK, so patent a series of sliders, with all the basic geometric shapes plus variations as the slider, and you can prevent ANYONE from ever using a slider again. How broken is that??

Super strong, super thin threads? Wasn't there a scene in Neuromancer where one of those, extended from a diamond spool worn as a thumb, constituted a deadly weapon?

Well, yes; the wars against Israel all depended on Egypt to carry the brunt of the fighting (and the costs). With Egypt taken out of the line of battle by the peace treaty, no one else had the ability to launch a land war against Israel.

If, because he read this:

" Then this is acceptable, however, a little weird. It would be like bundling systemd with a sound service."

then THIS happens:

Then this is acceptable, however, a little weird. It would be like combining systemd with a sound service.

... it will be YOUR fault!!

Supreme Court nominations?

How cheap would a WIFI chipset have to be to make dropping a spambot into teapots worthwhile?
Texas Instruments is offering this chipset TI CC3000 at $10 ea which would seem to be a minimum feature set, since in the absence of a PC of some sort having its own TCP stack, you'd need that built in.
This seems more likely something that an attacker would have to 'shotgun' at a target (distribute to vendors selling to intended victim) vs 'carpet bomb' (sell to everyone).

Alternately, could this be a feature teapot that got hacked by spammers? A teapot that sends you some sort of message over your local network when it is ready, instead of relying on you to hear a possibly weak whistle, might be worth another $20 or so more.

Students in any democratic country also need civics, teaching HOW THEIR GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK.
If, for example, idiot voters think the president can unilaterally change things that the constitution explicitly states are solely the juristiction of congress, then blame him for change not happening while ablsoving from blame the congressmen who ARE to blame, all hope of fixing things is lost.

Why would anyone hesitate to work in government or the military these days?
Hmmm....

Sequester.
"Government isn't the solution to the problem, government IS the problem." ...

Everyone keeps misspelling that. Correct spelling is now:

I believe part of the law states that insurance companies must spend a minimum of 80% of premiums on actual health care.
  How would the IRS, or whatever body is supposed to police that part of the law, verify what is ACTUALLY being spent on that, versus what the insurance companies are CLAIMING they spend?
  If seizing medical records en-masse was their solution, perhaps a better method might be needed. Still, that might be what is going on here.

Nope, they buy their guns HERE IN THE USA and smuggle them across the border. What do you think that 'Fast & Furious' sting operation was trying to do???

Employee is in wrong position, if was able to successfully find / hire / manage a highly competent programmer in China.

What we have here is multiple cases of an anomoly disappearing when a suspect device is turned off, then reliably reappearing when that device is turned back on.
Repeating this in the lab always fails.
What is missing in the lab, is the mix of OTHER devices that were likely active at the same time. Could this be a problem of beat frequencies being produced by the suspect device IN COMBINATION with OTHER devices on the aircraft?