I was already working in movie theaters when these movies first released. When these films first came out theatrical technology was not able to create the full effect of sound or vision possible. Dolby was known since the early 70s (Clockwork Orange, I believe), but THX was not even used when the first Star Trek film came out. While I am no fan of relentless *quel movies and the ridiculous "franchises" that are nothing more than retellings with nary a variation - and I'm certainly not thrilled by so-called "Director's Cut" releases modifying key elements or plot devices, I am all for bringing older films up to more current technology standards regarding the image and sound making the rewatching an (almost) entirely new experience where the film is not altered, the story is not changed, but the visual and auditory delivery is greatly enhanced.

This initial vulnerability was identified by Honeywell over 6 months ago and a patch was available and distributed shortly after. The recently reported vulnerability is also patched. http://www.tuxedotouchtoolkit....

It does call into serious question about the reasonable approach of making every aspect (security, appliances, climate control, entertainment, etc...) accessible, controlled, and vulnerable to network attacks. It is no longer just a concern of having a wireless access point in your home - it is now the home itself that is susceptible to attack. As was stated earlier - it's not a matter of IF something can be done but rather SHOULD it be done.

This is a lot less session hijack by guessing the next sequence in an online transaction (man in the middle) and much more about wifi spoofing.

What prevents someone from setting up their own hotspot at a place known to provide free wifi, and just name it with the same SSID?

More to the point, this is something any wifi connected device can fall prey to with a less than cautious user. Saving an unsecured Wifi and then going further by allowing your device to auto join is really creating the vulnerability and making the exploit possible.

"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion." - The Programmer's Mantra

Nah - they're okay (i think)

Will this research also help us eliminate the waste of oxygen? If so I have a couple of recommendations to offer . . .

oddly enough they are also single-celled organisms.

I will have to allow for that and it is an option I never considered based on the news reports (obviously filtered by our media) and my one relative who is native to China but has not lived there in many many years.

I am basing my opinions solely on my impressions and how I would feel / think were I in a similar situation but obviously being taken from what I know today as opposed to having only known their lifestyle. I liken it to a work horse who has only known the yoke and the cart - years later when the horse is too old to work and is set free in the pasture will rarely do anything but stand there and wait for the yoke to be put back on.

I'll go so far as to offer this article as evidence that people - HUMANS - have an innate desire to be free even under repressive controls.

http://news.yahoo.com/china-daring-few-challenge-one-child-limit-051010073.html

The birth of our own nation was at the hands of a few who chose to break away from their country's attempts at control.

Also true in the UK, US and numerous other countries - sadly.

I'll grant there is a considerable amount of information manipulation here in the US. Having spent a time working in and around our government and some of the things that are kept away from public scrutiny I understand first-hand there are reasons some information is kept secret.

That is not my point and was not the comment I was making. It was not about government information being kept secret - my comment was plainly about government's controlling what their people can do on a day-to-day basis. Take the actual content of the article discussing people having access to social media - that isn't controlling access to government secrets, it's controlling access to the outside world. Again, I also said if people choose to remain within the bounds of that control by choice, it's their choice (as you said "A lot of people like their government-imposed veils") but if not they should have the ability and basic human right to be free and think for themselves.

I could absolutely care less what deep-dark secrets of the inner-workings of the government want to remain veiled - that is up to their people to deal with as it is ours. I am talking about the proscribed birth-rate limits, the limits on what sex a baby can be, where you can seek information, what you are allowed to hear, what you can do to earn a living, etc. I am talking about basic freedoms. The same is said about slavery in the US but in the end the same truth was present - people wanted to be free. That has nothing what-so-ever to do with government manipulation of banking or insurance, nothing at all to do with the next weapon or how to infiltrate an enemy, it has only to do with the ability of people to make some of the choices in their lives for themselves.

At the end of the day my question remains. Does it really work? If it did would there ever be anyone trying to shrug off the yoke of control and manipulation? At the end of the day my question was really rhetorical.

As strongly as the Chinese gov't tries to control the information flow in and out of their country, does it really work? At some point doesn't the human mind and human nature cry to be free and see what's beyond that veil? The more tightly controlled any group is the more they try to circumvent or abolish those controls and when they do get that first breath of real free air, they seldom do anything but try to remain free.

Most certainly, there is a large amount of censorship all around and no amount of legalism will prove one is better than another. I will say that people need to be free to think for themselves, to believe for themselves, and feel as they want. If that desire is under the control of another, then so be it - that is their choice.

LOL!

No kidding?!

Yes texting while driving is banned - why not in all 50 states?? Did anyone say something to the contrary?

so stop trolling and actually read what's been said.

Absolutely not. I have enjoyed and appreciated every other previous comment not only making a similar assumption, but also further making my point. It is ludicrous to call for a ban on only one among a host of distracting activities.

No, texting is absolutely no different, no more or less dangerous, no more or less distracting than all the other mentioned activities - yet there is no legislated prohibition against them. If someone is in an accident and there is food in the vehicle you do not have officers taking the food and faulting the driver because they were eating, nor to you find people being fined because someone was drinking.

I am not advocating texting while driving but neither am I advocating vilifying one driving distraction and leaving the myriad others. Why single out one grossly distracting action and not others? People are just as apt to have their attention drawn away for more than a few seconds by changing CDs, eating, fumbling for a cigarette, etc, yet those are do not face the same publicized prohibition. I'd simply say they should all be considered equally distracting and those doing them while driving are equally culpable.