I was in Italy a few years ago, in a town in the south part of the main land, and helped a friend set up their national-telecom-provided Wifi router (which was surprisingly not difficult, even with not knowing the language, and no English-language option).

What was surprising was that there was not only no option to set the access point open, there wasn't even a way of specifying a passphrase -- only a cryptic one chosen by the router could be used. Which explained why I never saw an open access point the entire time that I was in the country...

The glib answer to "why" is simply "because nobody has passed an amendment to remove the legal mandate from the Constitution"...

Is there any good reason to even use Touch ID or other fingerprint unlocks instead of just using a password or passcode?

Less chance of someone seeing you typing in your passcode.

When I used to use a passcode, I had the phone lock after an hour of not having been used. With the fingerprint sensor, it locks immediately when it goes to sleep, and then requires the code after not having been used for 8 hours. I'm comfortable with this, and consider it an improvement...

When you're using my as the qualifier

So, kind of like the internet, then?

The idiot humans are hitting them at double the average rate; the same rate would likely apply to any slower, rule following human drivers.

I don't agree. I bet that I could get into an accident every day that wouldn't be my fault, without breaking any laws, but instead just by doing things that are unexpected by the other drivers.

A lot of people don't realize (or believe) that the biggest part of good driving is communication -- acting in a way that is predictable by other drivers, such not yielding the right-of-way when you should not, slowing unexpectedly, etc. I drive a lot, and have never had an accident, but have avoided a countless number of situations where I anticipated that a driver was about to do something stupid.

Pounds are definitely not units of mass -- "slugs" are the imperial units of mass...

The bullshit meter just bent the needle. On what do you base this claim?

There was a story last week that, if you pick a month (October) where Apple didn't have any new tablet products, while Microsoft introduced a new line (Surface Pro 4), and if you ignored sales from apple.com and the like, then Microsoft shipped a greater number if measured in dollars (not units).

This thing might be more dangerous if plugged into one of those portable USB power supply battery packs. Not sure what would happen, but a fire is not out of the question.

That is true -- I just got one that can supply enough current to jump-start my car!

Wasn't the Mac limited to 128Kb because that was all anyone would ever need?

Do you have any other ignorant statements to add?

There's no such thing as "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism". Racism is racism, and sexism is sexism.

Yes, and a "brown" dog is still a dog. In the English language, adjectives are used to add more description to a noun; that's just the way the language works...

I would suspect that the problem is that jurors are selected not to know anything about the case. Then, if the prosecutor doesn't present any compelling evidence, how can there be a conviction?

Command-C, command-V. It works in the terminal just like in the rest of your apps. It's one of the things that I actually prefer about the Mac that I'm working on nowadays.

And, since Command is used for shortcuts on the Mac, that leaves Control (mapped to be left of the "A" key, of course) available for emacs-style editing functions...

Note that it's not possible for an honest person to have need of the 5th amendment.

That really isn't true...

incriminate: make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing; strongly imply the guilt of (someone).

Note the word "appear". There was a robbery down on Main Street last night. Where were you last night? If you were to answer that you were on Main Street, you could well be incriminating yourself, even if you were to know nothing about the robbery.

Was her son's name Brutus?

Nope, Bam-Bam...

Besides, why are individuals punished for premeditated homicide, but it's OK for the state to do it?

Couldn't the same comparison be made for kidnapping/confinement?