It is about shutting down small business. In one stroke of a pen the Republican-controlled legislature eliminated 10,000 jobs. The state runs a lottery which is so crooked it should be described as a tax on the stupid. There are dog tracks and horse track and casinos. But a small business is "evil gambling." If gambling is wrong, shut down the Florida Lottery. But don't run a gambling operation and tell me internet gambling is somehow worse than the crooked lottery you run.

Note the angry tone, echoed by the Headline. Pilots allowed to "Dodge" security. And how did they slip through? By having biometricial data and special identification. Oh! The unfairness! Don't let a pilot hit a retinal viewer connected to the national database and move on to his seat in the plane he is assigned to fly. Make him stand in line in front of me and make him boot his laptop!

"Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time." Really! We know that Gudea of Lagash reigned from 2144 - 2124 B.C., four thousand one hundred and fifty-five years ago, because clay cuneiform tablets from that time are in the Library of Congress. In China, we have paper records two thousand, two hundred years old. Land records in England can be traced from the Doomsday Book of 1086 until today, and the 925 year-old book can be read today. Some puffed up salesman tells me “Napkins don't really stack up well against hard drives or even floppy disks for preserving data over time.” How much time have floppies saved data for. How old is the oldest harddrive? (If we still have the first one, fifty-two years.) Napkins can last for centuries, please spare me the “paperless” propaganda.

The corporate overlords demand it!. When you buy an house, you borrow money from a big corporation. That big corporation makes you buy "insurance" from another big corporation. The individual has no say, you can buy a policy from Tweedledum of Tweedledee, but both have the business model of denying claims. 1. Collect premium. 2. Loss hits homeowner. 3. Deny claim. 4. PROFIT!

Close the pod bay doors, HAL.

This sure is far more efficient than using a thumbtack and a cork bulletin board.

That is why during Revolutionary times nobody wrote anonymously. When the Federalists wrote articles expressing why they thought a constitution was a good idea, they published their papers under there own name. Nobody thought you could write items critical of George III under an assumed name. Sorry for the sarcasm, but, if you don't have anonymous speech, you don't have free speech. However, you have to go to an effort to speak anonymously. Don't put "Tom Payne's Printing" on the bottom of your pamphlets and get all offended when Tom gets served with a subpoena.

This is an engineering problem. Drivers like to drink. A ton of steel, hurtling down the road at a mile a minute, should not be controlled by a drunk. Letting politicians, lawyers and judges solve an engineering problem is stupid. Building a machine that does not hurt people is not an invasion of privacy. Drunk driving is an engineering problem; if we turned it over to the engineers, perhaps it could get solved.

Nothing, why?

"We should be using public key encryption with our private keys stored on a USB key." Yeah, that, or get an American Express card and do business with a firm that does not make you pay for goods or services you don't get. When I lose my AmexCard they overnight me a new one and I'm good to go; what happens when you drop your USB key down the storm drain?

In the United States, employment is terminable at will. This means either party can end the employment for any reason, or no reason at all. In the words of the poet, “you can take this job and shove it, I ain’t working here no more.” This poster comments on the “rights of yours they have trampled (job, pay, respect).” There is no right to a job, no right to pay not earned and certainly no right to respect. Find a corporation which respects those it employs! There is no good lawyer who would take a case like this on a contingency; contingency fees are for dead-bang winners. If you lost a leg, you’d get a lawyer to work on a contingency; not when you loose a job. Oh, “innocent until proven guilty,” that’s when the government tries to send you to prison; in the world of employment, this guy is guilty.