If you are not making mistakes, you are not making anything at all!

TERM LIMITS! We need term limits! They are only in it for themselves. There is no reason any of us can't represent our district. Send them up there for a term and then send someone new! Representing the people and making laws is not rocket science, you know. Time to "right size" congress. It made sense to have districts when we had only horses. Now with modern communication, we can cut the number of "representatives" way down. Think of the savings!

As in so many fields today, the "debate" is about killing the messenger.

I have not noticed this. We have a yard at the base of a cell phone tower used by 4 carriers - no problems. I've been putting old desktop MBs under hives for about 3 years, complete with switch mode power supplies and hard drives, some with Wi-Fi, some with ethernet - no problems. I think what you are referring to was one poorly designed experiment where the cordless phone base was placed in the hive. If it did cause the hive to collapse, it was probably the magnetic field from the transformer in the base, not the RF.

Folks, check out hivetool.net and hivetool.org. We've been putting sensors in hives for about three years - have about 15 on-line in the southeast US and California. We desperately need DBAs and programmers to help with some of the software tools. I work for a commercial beekeeper in the southeast US. We run about 2000 hives. Last fall we had our first experience with colony collapse. A brief description can bee seen at hivetool.org/cc When you troubleshoot a system that was working, whether it's hardware or software, the first thing you do is undo the last thing you did. In this case it could be the introduction of Neonicitinoids. The EU has banned them for a few years. This is similar legislation in the US: The save the American Pollinators Act of 2013, HR 2692 This is a real problem that is starting to affect the food supply - seen the the price of almonds this year? And yes, we probably have seen this before in the late 1800s- only it was called Disappearing Disease or Dwindling Off. Guess what insecticide was used then?

Yep. Me, too. Don't forget the Archive Web Page tool, or the ability to change the way Konqueror reports itself (good for sites that only "work" with IE), or the ability to save sessions, or the FTP/FISH IOslaves. Even has one for man pages. Fast, clean and beautiful. We love you, Konqueror developers! I spend 95% of my time in Konqueror and Kate. They, like Linux, don't get in the way - they fight for me instead of with me. Gee, there are only three of us? I didn't realize the great unwashed masses are so "densely" populated.

What I don't understand is weeks ago (May 5th) former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente said that all digital communications are recorded and stored, that "no digital communication is secure".* Didn't Snowden just confirm what was already leaked? Why isn't Mr. Clemente on his way to Ecuador? * http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=tim+clemente

You mean "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive"?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you destroy a whole ecosystem.

"... breaks an important symmetry which we see in nature. The Higgs mechanism gets around this..." Ah - so it's a fudge factor.

Yep. Spot on, ackthpt. Er, Bill, you mean the kids need something with a keyboard like the One Laptop Per Child project that you tried so hard to destroy? This technology assessment brought to you by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that believes all people have the right to lead healthy and productive lives as long as they continue to pay monopolistic rents to Micro$oft Corporation. You gotta love it - he steals your money and then uses it to try to buy his way into heaven. "God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it." -- Austin O'Malley

See the BBC interview Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust at http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18419231 "In other words, I do not see open source as some big goody-goody "let's all sing kumbaya around the campfire and make the world a better place". No, open source only really works if everybody is contributing for their own selfish reasons."