Well, you see, there's an app for that.

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Well obviously that's what our infallible modding system is for.

Probably because the title of this article starts with "US House..."

Not even a facebook profile would completely convince me. But the audio file, and that you were on a radio station that I listen to often(I'm actually from Seattle too), is proof enough. Usually I'm just skeptical to be skeptical and it only allows me to be more confident about the conclusions I draw. I'm sorry I have to take such an incredulous stance, but it's in my nature.

Congrats on achieving so much so early in life though. I'm sure we'll all hear about a lot more of your achievements down the road. That is unless you plan on retiring or something :P

The problem with your analogy is that even the cancer patient is probably uncertain whether he or she really wants to die. To end your own suffering would be hard. Especially because you usually wouldn't want to be in that position in the first place. Accepting that your life is over due to bad luck and ultimately deciding to end it all has to be an extremely confusing situation to be in. And when in your in such an ambivalent state and your doctor gives you that subtle suggestion to kill yourself, you might take it as the medically correct thing to do. The acceptance of suicide can be seen as a subtle way of promoting it, which might influence many people, especially those in vulnerable and impressionable states, to commit suicide when they "normally" wouldn't want to. It's probably better to keep suicide illegal just so that the taboo persists. After all, it's not a very enforceable law. If you want to die, it's not that hard to kill yourself in a fairly painless way (though I've never put much thought into how).

He's going for command line! TAKE HIM OUT!!!

It all depends on your definition of malicious. Or more accurately, a bunch of politicians', who know absolutely nil about computer science, definition of malicious.

I don't think axes are considered "software"

Might as well just ban paper and any form of note-taking while they're at it. We're about 27 years late anyway.

And that's the same exact pic of "Anonymous Male Teen" that's on /.'s summarized article, which is also the same as the guy's twitter account. And this is basically the same exact article, you've provided no additional information. I still think this kid doesn't exist.

Luckily for journalists, that little thing called a question mark lets you make big claims without actually "declaring" anything ;)

And for that matter, what do they mean by "Golden". Are hackers using gold computers now? Did they give up on those diamond computers they were developing?

I just don't get this figurative language stuff.

Is it even legal to alter the data of a licensed file? If Apple were to use the metadata to identify the file, then changing that metadata could be seen as a form of "circumventing copy-protection software". I'm not saying this is reasonable at all. But I'm sure that most /.ers are aware of some of the exploitation of vaguely defined laws that goes on in copyright court. If it's possible, and it generates profit, then there's reason to fear it.