People are afraid of what they don't understand. Many people don't understand how nuclear reactors work, how much radiation is bad for the body, or even that they're getting low doses of radiation from the general environment.

Pretty sure Neal Stephenson already predicted this in Anathem. Next will be people developing "unfogging" software, which leads to more fogging, and we have a new arms race!

Neal Stephenson is a great author for Slashdot readers. Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash are great titles to start with.

No, but I also don't leave the envelopes unsealed either.

Step 1: Instead of rounding off the extra decimals of a cent in every transaction, deposit them into a bank account. Step 2: Destroy a piece of office property with a baseball bat. Step 3: Sleep with Jennifer Aniston. Step 4: Set the building on fire. Step 5: Work for construction company. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_wiXgRWrIU

Of course we did, it had guns, karate, explosions and Natalie Portman.

You will have a ridiculous amount of fun in college. Leaving early is a serious waste of boozing and womanizing opportunity.

And of course there's those..what did you call them? Education benefits too.

I highly doubt that when the Pentagon declared cyberattacks an act of war, it was with groups like Lulzsec or Anonymous in mind. They're probably a little more concerned about a scenario in which a country like China or North Korea announces they have the U.S. power grid by the virtual short and curlies.