Github has gotten a lot of negative press lately for political bullshit and race baiting. A bunch of small timers were talking about moving to Gitlab over it. Perhaps you can differentiate your product by committng to allowing controversial content.

The press agent was wrong. It isn't an assault rifle unless it has a full auto or burst fire mode. Lanza had no assault weapons.

I feel like the popularity of the Glock shows a shift in popular thought towards safety over reliability.

The crystalline steel that makes up the last several turbine blades is a state secret, and if you try to run a similar turbine without those components, you're gonna have a bad time. The heat and pressure will disintegrate most metals withing a few hundred to a few thousand hours of installation. The camera lies outside my specialty, but I think a commercial equivalent would cost the Iranians a lot of weight, which would cut down on range and munitions.

Every parent has a right to raise their child as they see fit.
While perhaps it would not be immoral for a parent to spy on their child, I do think it would be irresponsible to raise a child to see a lack of privacy as the norm.

I would love to see him countersue for slander, and ask for all of sony's legal department computers so that he could search through their emails. When the judge says no, he'll have a great case for appeal.

Why steam wins:
1.) No CD's needed
2.) AWESOME prices
3.) I can't lose a game, its always tied to my account
4.) Install across multiple machines
5.) Valve's games aren't crippled with DRM, they just don't let you play multi-player pirated


I love steam. I love your sales. I love your delivery method. I love how updates are automatic and fairly un-noticed. Steam rocks.

I would recommend just censoring yourself.

The fact of the matter is that if the country is actually using sophisticated techniques to look for spies, they will be actively looking for data traveling in an encrypted form to the united states.

It would be a shame to be captured and interrogated because the tyrants didn't know that "secret message" was about how much you hate your boss.

I want a tablet with a data plan. It could be my phone and my portable computer.

But, it is specifically AT&T's fault I choose not to. Here's why.

1.) limitation on bandwidth: I expect to use 5 gigs of data a month. This puts me right on the borderline of what will cost me hidden fees.
2.) Hidden fees: They abound. If I could get a straight answer on what it would cost, I would gladly pay for a data package. They lie about what the cost will be. I don't pay hidden fees. So I can't get a data package.
3.) Crippled hardware: Of the android OS devices I wanted, almost all are crippled in one way or another. The worst is when AT&T sells devices without a wireless chip and doesn't tell you. They did that to me with my blackberry, and it pissed me off.
4.) Crippled software: How many data carriers block access to parts or all of the Android Market in favor of a contractually obligated private market?
5.) Trust: Because AT&T isn't up front with costs and feature limitations, I don't believe them when they tell me what they could get. They are liars, and normally I wouldn't do business with liars. Luckily for me, I sublease my phone contract with someone else, so I'm only in a 6 month pre-paid contract with a friend. If it weren't for this, I'd be 100% prepaid phone service.

also: http://www.betanews.com/article/ATT-sued-over-iPhone-data-overbilling/1296585365

I learned basic calculus in high school. I just completed a course in my first semester of college in multi-variable calculus. I didn't go to most of the lectures because I've grown to learn most heavily from books. It was a more efficient use of my time to learn what I needed to learn on my own, so I skipped the lectures and studied. In theory, if I were sufficiently motivated, I wouldn't need to go to college to become an aerospace engineer. Honestly, I think I would learn best in an apprenticeship.

In any case, your argument is reducto ad adsurdum and has the simple fallacy that you omit the possibility of motivated self learners that hit the books.

I'd go for the fellowship if it had more money attached to it.

if you do this, it will probably be re-installed in the next automatic update.

Partly because I have never done so before, I will be modifying it directly and neutering its code. This way it still registers as installed and won't update.

I find the census troubling because undoubtedly the data could be subpoenaed by a federal judge. Its not that I do anything illegal, its just that I like to reduce my footprint.

Really? Is this new? Comcast does this to consumers all the time, but I can't go out and fine anyone. And can you really get a fair day in court against the fed? I don't think so. Shame on Oracle for taking advantage of the blind bureaucracy, and shame on the federal government for expecting special treatment.

Depending on the style of printer, it may be possible to forensically recover the didacted information.
While I was unable to find any such studies in the 30 seconds I spent googling this, I have a few thoughts. If this was printed on a laser printer, then a charge was used to layer toner fluid on the paper. Then, a black marker was used to over-write the toner. The toner would have shielded the paper from the black ink. Therefore, a high resolution scan of the image should reveal that the reverse side of the paper is slightly lighter on the inside of the printing of each character where the marker was used.
Of course, we would need an original, not a digital or even a copy.

Create some realistic looking Russian spy emails and email yourself. Use google translator to put it in russian at the top, and in English at the bottom. Put in some nice russian looking pictures, and make it all about the coming invasion.
Close with, "Reminder, please destroy this message after receiving it."
I promise that the FBI will come and find you, laptop in hand, at which point you calmly withdraw your complaint form from the FBI and the police and say "thank you for finally returning my laptop. I hope that in the future I won't have to resort to trickery in order to get you to do your job."