I don't want to get into the morality/legality of this but I do agree. What GP said does sound fucked up.

That does seem to be the picture you get by reading people's opinions online. I find comfort in believing that the sample of opinions posted online isn't representative of the total population since it suffer from a sort of volunteer bias, where the people with the most outrageous opinions have the greater will to express those opinions to a bunch of strangers.
Either that, or we ARE surrounded by ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs and are all screwed.

April Fools is pants? Dang! All this time I was thinking that idle is pants!
This changes everything.

I hope they keep this. It's really cool. And yes the only reason I'm posting is to get the April Fools achievement...

I'm with you man. I'm also hoping that this will do away with publishers pushing their invasive 3rd party DRM into Steam games. (I'm looking at you Crysis)

That's a shitload of beer.

Well, I don't know about all the other fuckers, but I'm pretty sure that in Adam Smith's case, it's because he's dead.

Most paper ballots in the US are counted electronically, and still have a paper trail. That's the best of both worlds. The voting system right now in the US is fast, simple, and familiar. There is NO reason to complicate things by adding touchscreen machines of any other kind of nonsense. Like the German supreme court realized, all it does is complicate things and increase the opacity in the voting process.

I think it's even more amazing when you consider that it is 240 watt-hours of energy PER DAY. It's actual power usage I'm guessing is much less. If your lights are incandescent, then they probably use that much energy in less than two hours. Damn, why can't our terrestrial equipment be this efficient?

I had heard before that hot peppers were used to coat cables, since rodents apparently hate it. A quick google gave me this: this.

Good thing Broadband money was cut from the stimulus pack.

I was hoping Russia's OS would be based on not having files :(

Because after Blagojevich, politicians are watching what they say just in case it's being recorded.

I'm not even close to an expert on global warming theories, but I'm pretty sure that Al Gore's (and everyone else that "drank the Kool-Aid") argument about global warming is all about CO2 and the greenhouse effect and nothing about heat-creating processes. The actual process of generating nuclear power is 100% carbon neutral.

Hardcore mode would solve your damage problems.