Your comment presumes that there is a difference between the corporate environment and the government; well, there isn't, and hasn't been for a long time. The government is just a front, and its members are well aware of it.

Wow, that has to be the most erotic comment I've ever read on /. :)

Whatever doesn't kill us, can still really hurt...

...it's all about the patents that Yahoo! owns.

Not sustainable? Just look at all the oil fields it has liberated for american drilling companies. The US military is a goldmine!

I remember that one too. I also remember that it was a fake, footage taken from some different event.

I love Willis' works, but Blackout was boring and the characters weren't very believable, behaving all like morons just for the plot's sake...

Because 'they' are people. There are a few power-hungry morons who manage to keep them enslaved with terror and brainwashing, but I'm pretty sure you would find there a lot of nice and friendly young girls to whom you'd love to show how the Internet works ;) Also, having Internet makes people happuy (well, it makes me happy), and happy people are usually pretty reluctant to go to war.

...but in their hearts, they soar high above the clouds.

...and if the nature doesn't supply any, we still have the lawyers :) Well, the Swedish bikini team doesn't look so hot now, does it?

I think that the real long-term plan here is to minimize pat-down use to such a level, that later it can be abandoned altogether without much resistance from the flying public. When they (you know, THEY) have been able to make us consider pat-downs as the less-humiliating option, I think they are safe to assume they'll eventually be able to force us to do anything...

...than the fact that currently we don't have a way to get there is the fact that now we have the reason to find the way.

OK, I'm from Slovakia, and not that I like our government (thieves all of them), but this thing is getting blown out of proportions (pun intended). What our (anti-government) media write, is that there were not 8 pieces per 90g, but just 2 per 10g. It was in the checked-in baggage, not the hand baggage. The baggage was checked by a dog, but it found only one piece, the second one got through. It is RDX, which - unless you have the right fuse - is as dangerous as a piece of chocolate. The pilot was apparently informed that he has a piece of explosive on board, but since it was a security exercise, and there are far more dangerous things on any plane (including the tons of fuel) he decided that it's not a problem, and took off with it. Slovak police have informed the Irish about the situation, but for some reason they forgot to remove the explosive, and then two days later when they got a second warning (just to be sure), they decided it'd be nice to do a follow-up test of their anti-terrorism and bomb sqads. I still don't understand how they want to account for arresting a man of whom they knew that he didn't do anything illegal. Since there's not much happening right now, the media is just happy to make a circus of it, and apparently the irish have decided that it may be beneficial for them to make a huge fuss of it (I'd really like to know the reason). Actually, this kind of test is pretty common all around the world, the explose-sniffing dogs need to find something quite frequently in order not to forget how to do it...

...to respond is to try to promote through this one (and possibly more) to a position high enough that you will be able to enforce your privacy and off-time. It's like with sharks - you either move or you die.

Your CPU uses 95W at its stock speed of 2.8GHZ, not at the overclocked speed of 3.4GHz. If you are willing and able, you could measure the difference and post it - I'd be interested to know the results. I'd expect it to be somewhere near the 150W mark...