Yeah my favorite one to scare people with is search for "password", tons of people take a picture of the back of their router or other devices that have passwords stickered on the back.

System Management Mode is generally regarded on x86 as ring(-3). Userspace is ring(3), kernel space is ring(0), and if a hypervisor is running that's generally ring(-1). System Management mode can also run a hypervisor (at least on Intel... I know, x86 is crazy). When you use a USB keyboard or something similar to interact with a BIOS, that's partially some drivers running in system management mode that are trapping back and forth between those contexts. SMM is about as game over as it gets.

Thatâ(TM)s a silly correlation to bring up to reenforce whatever biases you have. An equally ridiculous argument in the other direction could be made (the virus hit blue states harder and killed their population in larger numbers because of their trust in government).

I don't necessarily disagree with your main premise, but our medical system is head and shoulders above almost everyone else. Yes its financial burden may not be equitable, but in extreme situations no one really holds a candle. Is it best for the largest area of the bell curve? Maybe not. But an enormous amount of energy goes into servicing the tails; that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Religious institutions are tax exempt. Also, where is my cut of the student loan money?

You're taking a trip with him next week and you don't remember his name? Stop worrying about email and see a doctor.

That's a long winded message for someone with two broken wrists.

They leave the nutshell intact

I agree, +5 Funny is underrated.

Dude you weren't supposed to tell anyone.

And a real estate web site would naturally be location.location.location

Reminds me of a joke my EE professor told us (our CS department is in the engineering school): Why is the CS department part of the engineering school? Every school has to have a special-ed program

Well I was refused a replacement inside of 2 years. Apple refused to admit the problem with my Macbook Pro (of the same series with the same GPU) was affected by the problem. It cost me quite a bit in gas to the nearest Apple store, where they said it wasn't their problem. Hours on the phone, again denying it was the same problem. Finally I got a hold of some secret-ish Apple customer complaint line, where I explained to them that I worked at an electronics packaging lab, and had the equipment to verify the problem (the defect was some sort of packaging problem). This was not entirely true, though it was within my university's department. They finally relented when I said that if this defect was indeed covered by the recall I would be bringing the results of the test to every news outlet I could. Still took 3 weeks to get the damn machine back, and it runs hot as fucking anything.