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The folks planning 911 used this same technique of using drafts to send messages back and forth. I'm certain that these are now always saved permanently for law enforcement use to …

My sister also uses "shell" companies. She is a prominent ex-scientologist and scientology has an established history of using litigation to punish and silence critics and exmember…

It depends on the bank. Some will open accounts for LLCs, some require ID cards for signers and corporate records to show that the person is authorized. It also depends on who is b…

Existing iris scanners can be deceived by pictures of other people's irises. I do not doubt that facial recognition will be fooled by people making masks (to fool infrared scanning…

> The CEO of a company cannot "take back" or "wipe out" your right to purchase stock, aka stock options. The folks who thought they had options at Skype found out that there were s…

It was Win 3.1 that had the AARD code that locked out DR-DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

I deny the charge that it was "going downhill" before all the deletions started. If the "quality" is declining, then it is due to the vast quantities of new questions being asked, …

Not if a moderator locked and deleted it - a 10k user can then only view the question and vote to re-open it. Sometimes the moderators act extra viciously by editing each answer be…

Because when it comes to changing passwords, it would take me about 45 minutes to come up with a new password that met the rules and had a reasonable chance of me remembering it. I…

This looks exactly like the Dept of Energy password guidlines when I worked there. For item #5, you should be aware that they check for dictionary words of 3 or more letters, both …

Missing from this article are all the scientists who took funding from BP in exchange for silence. Those scientists betrayed science as well. Sample: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.c…

The religious war of "free" versus "open" is what turns a lot of people off. Previously, when posting code I wrote, I'd pick MIT license which would allow users to do what they wan…

The mods on the StackOverflow sites seem to be trigger-happy deleting and locking posts. Most of my major upvoted answers are on threads now closed as off-topic - so this tells me …

> Isn't "post-factum civil litigation" an even better mechanism for enforcement? That hasn't worked out well for Madoff's "investors". > Look companies that are "bad actors" are go…

Section 201 of HR 3606 says > Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission shall revise subsection (d)(1) of section 230.1…

Bughouse lets you have experts and novices playing without the novices getting totally stomped. Because you can always move a piece, or place a piece that your team-mate captured, …

Where I used to play, we mostly played standard chess openings. Bughouse is different enough that one can have expert chess players playing against novices and since it is team-vs-…

Having read HR3606, so many existing requirements to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC regulations are eliminated for "emerging growth organizations" that there will be huge amoun…

One of my theories is that "morning people" have a tendency to get promoted in managerial tracks, while most IT workers tend to be "evening people". Thus to the mismanagers, it app…

> or worse Well, I'm running for election this November, so I suppose I could show them my campaign site.

My suspicion is that you may want to move away from trivia based questions ( what is the 3rd parameter of the form.print dialog , or how would you move Mt Fuji ) to ones like "desc…

Under the Human Capital approach, learning via books or free/cheap online courses has the same effect as learning at the most expensive school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_c…

In 1962, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis In 1983, the Able Archer got the Soviet hierarchy in a tizzy. They misinterpreted a N…

For those who don't get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8