I recently served on a jury where the case involved a convicted sex offender who was petitioning for release from the treatment facility he was confined to. In order for release to be granted, the jury had to find that the defendant was no longer sexually dangerous. We were given a legal definition of the term 'sexually dangerous' before hearing testimony from three psychologists. The first two, hired by the state, testified that they had evaluated the defendant and found that he met the definition. The third, hired by the defendant, testified that he did not. The jury then had to reach a decision based on that testimony.

From what I remember of the testimony, the evaluation for sexual dangerousness involved interviewing the defendant and giving scores in several categories such as "Is the offender able to empathize with his victims?" and several others I don't recall. The scores are added up and if they're over a certain number, the person is considered sexually dangerous. Each psychologist testified as to why they gave the score they did in each category, although there were obviously differences of opinion among them.

In this case, we decided that the defendant was sexually dangerous. In order to be released, he would have to be found not sexually dangerous by the resident psychologist at his treatment facility, or by a jury after petitioning for another hearing. Petitions can be filed once a year, but due to backlog in the courts it would likely be at least two until he actually gets another one. As far as I know, he is confined indefinitely until one of those two things happen.

Bigfoot is really easy to fake. I have no idea whether what I saw (north of Fouke, AR in the 60') was fake or not, but there was a working duplicate east of Orange, TX.

I have never seen a prankster, but I believe that they exist.

Uh, a lot of families have a single computer with multiple user accounts for each family member. It's usually enough, especially if you have a single kid still living at home and don't use the computer so much. It only makes sense when the parents or kids are more geeky or spend more time on computer. We slashdotters do, but not most people.

Also, when my friends or sister or someone else is over and wants to use my computer, I hate it when they do so using my own user account. Not only they can see what tabs I have open in my browser, read my emails and IM windows or any files/photos, they mess up the browser and other apps from the state I left it at.

Extra complexity isn't an excuse. Have it default to one user account (like all Windows, Linux and Mac do), but have the possibility of creating other ones too. Your reasoning is the same as when most people say that not allowing multitasking saves battery time and there won't be programs in the background eating up cpu, but you can just have a setting to enable it and the default to the Apple way. One setting that makes your device a lot nicer for the people who want multitasking.

From the classified UFO documents that UFO conspiracy theorists like to use to justify their paranoia have shown once they have been declassified have been quite disappointing. What we have always ended up finding is that they weren't classified because there was some massive UFO cover-up, but rather that governments were paranoid regarding sharing how data was distributed and communication protocols. The actual data was pretty boring and has done nothing to vindicate conspiracy nuts.

Then so did Commodore. I still have my CP/M cartridge here, it included a Z80 CPU, kinda the same with the Apple ][, but it's external instead.

There is. It's called istealer.

That store shouldn't exist at all. All developers should be free to publish their apps wherever thay want for whatever price they want. It's called DEMOCRACY. Unfortunately, capitalism is heading from free market to corporate dictatorship.

Did Florida give it away?

And make your money on touring.

It happens

McCain's age increases the likelihood that, if elected, his VP would end up playing a more significant role than usual. Rather than choosing a running mate to solidify the republican base (who probably wouldn't vote for a democrat anyway), I'd think a better choice would be a moderate to appease the independent voters who might be scared off by the possibility of voting McCain but ending up with Huckabee for a year or two.