The obvious problem here is that security personnel _need_ to resort to bribes in order to conceal carry. Any non-felon citizen should be able to conceal carry (with proper training, testing, background check & etc safety measures in place).

The thing I find most important is keeping the way things work within the universe of the story consistent. When the heroes or their toys don't behave in a consistent fashion from scene to scene it irks me. It's fine to be in a setting where the laws of physics are different than the real world, but when they change from moment to moment it gets old quick. If the main character (robot or whatever) was able to fly while carrying a bus, don't make a scene 20 minutes later where he's helpless because a 20 foot gap between buildings is preventing him from saving an innocent girl.

I love the idea of them using more Linux and other open source products. BUT... I'm thinking having the government mandate that every thing must be open source is a bad thing. Basically, it should be up to the people actually using and implementing the systems to figure out the best solution. Sometimes it's open source, sometimes the open source options don't suit the needs as well as a piece of paid software. This is going to limit options and make some people's jobs a lot harder than necessary.

So IE8 will use bug mode on intranets, and standards mode on the internet. Can someone explain to me how the hell IE will know the difference between www.example.com and myIntranet.example.com ???

I don't recall seeing an intranet meta tag in my html books... so I don't get how IE will know if something is an intranet site or an internet site.

Which makes me wonder if it will simply think everything is an intranet.