That i can use CTRL-C and CTRL-V on the command line. Jesus christ...

Lot of good it looks like it will do...only two games were blacked out as of last year...this seems like fairly inconsequential news.

Except when the only people who will take jury duty are the kinds of people who don't MAKE $5/hr...I know not EVERYONE in that income range is stupid or misinformed about things, but it's a pretty common theme...

Actually if the police knock on your door and you open it, and in plain sight there is a bag of pot or some other visible sign of illegal activity, they can walk in THERE AND THEN to search your house...As long as they're standing somewhere they're legally allowed to stand. If they actually come into your front door and look in your house before they see something, that's illegal. If they can see it from the doorstep though...That's perfectly legal. So far as this subject...I'm personally all for it. There's drug deals all the time on the street I live on...Middle class, nice neighborhood, but one kid lives with his grandparents and is constantly meeting people that drive him around, and drop him off a few minutes later. Never long enough to call the local PD and get a patrol car there in time. It's not like I can call the cops and say "oh, they ran someone over" or "hey they ran a red light"...They can't just pull them over and take my word for it that they commited a crime that cannot be proven. I can, however, say they just met with a known drug dealer, and drove around for a few minutes. That will allow the police to catch the car as it comes out of the neighborhood, and search the car.

RFID tagging in retail stores...they're trying to make it work. I worked for a company that offered monitoring services for grocery checkout to prevent loss, and they were afraid the industry would put them out of business.

This kind of made me chuckle. You claim all humans in terms of the cosmos are little toddlers, and yet by nature of posting this, you seem to be acting like you have some sort of authority to talk down to everyone as if you're the adult in the room. Oddly enough, that's kind of the impression that I now feel like i'm giving off... OOOH something shiny!