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Didn't think it was so much a matter of getting weird as after Children of Dune, they had to scrape the inside of that bucket harder and harder to get a book-full out of it.

While blood alcohol levels have a well known track record, marijuana/THC blood levels do not. In that US research into marijuana has been severely hampered for decades by governmental prohibition, it seems unlikely that there are any sort of accepted standards or demonstrated relationships between a marijuana buzz

My apologies for being flatly contentious, but no they didn't. If they had there wouldn't have been any need to raise the debt ceiling.

First off, trying to attack the national deficit by voting against raising the debt limit is exactly backwards. When the Tea Party said "let's not raise the debt limit" what that really said was "let's not pay the bills we already voted for and spent the money on".

Faith and credit, bubba. As when the Tea Party was instrumental in lowering the United States' credit rating by making the rest of the world ask themselves "What if the US doesn't pay their bills?"

Tea Party shenanigans have proven they are unconcerned about the nation's faith and credit, no?

The GOP won't impeach Obama because they can't make a case.

Yet another validation of my long term thinking and fashion forward trendsetting.

Also known as the Pig's Snout Galaxy.

I'm sure that after four days and 443 replies, no one has yet pointed out that this "swimsuit" is just a cheap cloth hair band pulled up over one leg until it covers one's junk, barely. No complicated attachment schemes needed.

Yep, I was just making four sins against one regulation.

When you do things on the Internet, there's always a chance of being seen from far, far away.

By name are you referring to God, Yahweh, YHVH, or Jehovah?

No, the anti-sodomy laws were perfectly equitable as far as race goes, in that they took no notice of race in any way.

If folks had been doing what they should have then this story wouldn't have happened because the default password for the device would have been changed.

The initial comment of this thread was about requiring physical contact with the device to place it in "administrator mode". Ideally, they, people who put these devices in the field, never ever want to have to physically touch them after they've been configured and shipped. Because every time you have to touch one

Some ATMs are just little pin pad terminals plugged up to a phone line, a printer, and a bill dispenser. As a bank CTO, you'd be responsible for thousands or tens of thousands of the little buggers. So any little change for one ends up being changes for every one, and your costs jump up dramatically.

The devil's in the details, as they say. In general the tradeoff is more secure versus more usable. If you rig a system so administrative tasks require physically touching the system, then you have no opportunity to realize cost savings by using remote administration. You'll need more people in more places just so

If it required a physical touch, then remote administration would be impossible, and the cost savings of these little robots would dissipate.

Just the usual suspects. Parents who have no idea what their kids are up to and kids who have no way to tell fantasy from reality.