It occurs to me that if they continue to track your car .. that somehow they could be held accountable if something bad happens to you even if you're no longer paying for their services. If they continue to have any involvement with you after the fact, then if something happens and they don't help you out which results in damage or death, then they could potentially be held somehow liable for that if they fail to intervene in a timely fashion that could save you from such damage or death.

I suddenly had this thought to make some kind of browser add-on that would delete the FB cookies automatically whenever you signed out of FB. Then the reality of what could happen set it. In a flash, I already saw a letter showing up in my email or mailbox out in front of my house with a cease and desist letter from FB signed by zuckerman's legal team. Then I pictured a lawsuit for interrupting FB's business; countless of hours and dollars I don't have lost to the void of fat rich snickerting lying lawyers.

Now a days it seems that doing anything that is right (ie: left) and that helps fight intrusion into our privacy does nothing but get you into trouble with a legal machine that is as much now practially worthless as it is corrupt and dangerous to our society. And now that I just said that, I'm sure an FBI probe will begin into everything I do to make sure I'm not some kind of domestic terroist. Yep, gotta love how things have turned out.

No, it won't be banned by politicians. It will be voted into use by politicians with a portion of the law stating that they will not be used on politicians, only people making under a certain amount of money a year. Extra powerful versions will be used on those of different classes/races/ethnicities (but the power of the magnets will be held as state secrets so can't disclosed, even in court under a judges order).

Here, let me fix that for you. "... for every one position there are >85 people currently not working." There you go.

I made the same commitment not to buy SC2 because of the connection requirement and I have stuck to that commitment. This is just wrong for several reasons. 1) You can't play with the games internals like you can with a game that you install and can play without being restricted to blizzard's online jailhouse. This is exactly what this is like. Your game is imprisoned with a 24 hour a day guard rotation to keep watch on everything you do with the game. No mods to play and experiement with = no more in depth long term fun. I really enjoyed being able to install various mods into D1 and D2 and it looks like I'm going to be stuck playing those games forever since I will never see another release of Diablo otherwise. 2) What happens when blizzard dies? Don't think for one minute that it can't happen. How many large powerhouse game companies have we seen crash to the ground? So, in twelve years when something bad happens and blizzard crash and burns like so many of its predessors, what happens to our games? Well, they crash with Blizzard since you can't play the game without blizzard's DRM servers being up and running. Those servers costs money to run and keep online so if blizzard's cash that maintains these servers stops, so do our games. I don't want to take that risk of losing my $60+ investment some years down the road and never being able to play the game again. What a horrible thought indeed. I still play and very much enjoy Diablo 1 and Starcraft and they're old! I'm glad they don't require an online connection! How do we stand up against this? How do we tell Blizzard that we want our games to be OUR games; to do with what we please; to still be able to play them in thirty years; to not be so controlled all the time by corporate assholes who only have dollar signs in their eyes. What can we do? Well, we can not buy the games. That's they only way we can send a message becuase, obviously, complaining online does nothing but make the execs say "I'm surprised by so many complaining about the online requirement but this is the way it is and this is the way it shall forever be. Mwaaahahaha!". Fuckers!

True. But remember, we weren't even a hundred years past burning witches when our founding fathers were busy hoping to guarantee our liberties against government. At the time, just saying that god doesn't exist could possibly get you into deep deep trouble.

If I recall, you can either submit info to the BSA with your name (in order to win a reward) or do so anonymously. I have no idea if the BSA saves anonymous data (therefore making it non-anonymous).

This news was already noted some time back. I recall reading about it online somewhere and this was new news at the time (within the last year, maybe two at most). I recall the whole story about how neanderthal dna was found in all people of european and asian decent but not in any african people.

I remember this being mentioned quite some time ago (months? A year or more maybe?). I don't have a link to post but I'm certain this has already been reported; if not by these scientists, then another.

I've been using (or trying to use) symphony for about a year now (maybe longer - don't remember) and it has so many problems that I fear to use it beyond anything but a simple text editor. Whenever I try to do anything more advanced (tables within tables for example) the thing will just crash completely and disappear from the screen along with, of course, anything I was working on.

After OOo ended up under the control of the evil Mr Burns er .. Larry, I decided I wasn't going to use any version of it after Oracle's control of it. That's when I decided to try out Symphony and use it instead but, like I said, it's a mess.

Is there any hope for FOSS office projects that have any hope of competing with MS?

He's still using his TRS-80 so it takes a while.

It sounds like we need some laws that prosecute software developers and project managers for stealing from the people of the united states. Start prosecuting people for this crap and it wouldn't happen so much.

They do on occasion but as stated earlier, it is rare. Not long ago I read of a story where five or more sheriff deputies tortured a guy in his home but before doing so, the deputies ordered his wife and toddler son out of the house. As the wife was leaving, she switched on a tape recorder that was hidden from the officers. The whole torture session was recorded and later used against the officers in court. All of them, I believe, were fired and a few of them were sentenced to five years in prison. The guy that was tortured was one short a six pack mentally and was a known drug dealer (supposedly). and the deputies illegally entered his home without warrant or orders from superiors and a few of yhem were off duty. They hooked electrodes up to the guys balls and shocked him over and over in hopes of coercing him into signing a confession that he was a drug dealer. He held out and never did sign the confession. Other than the officers being sent to prison, I do not know what, if any, civil action was taken against the officers and/or the county that employed them. When I read the story, I was actually surprised that the officer(s) that led the torture session only got five years. What would happen if I walked into some cops house, kicked out his wife and kid and started electrocuting his balls in order to make him sign a confession saying that he was a corrupt peace officer? I can imagine a little more than five years. That's one thing that eats me up is the unfairness of our judicial system and how it protects corrupt officials.

But that Charles Bronson guy! I heard he did some vigilante stuff! Oh .. and Clyde Shelton. Let's not forget him!

From what I understand, he has a prior criminal record (prior to his SF Admin situation). Because of that, he may not be allowed to live and work in other (decent) countries. Also, this is probably news that was read all over the civilized world so I can't see any company anywhere in the world to work in IT. I believe his IT career is officially over unless he works for himself.