You'd probably get more cheaper from hiring a plane to fly a parabolic path.

Perhaps they should have secured there network correctly and not counted on the hardware in the user's hands to do it for them.

It isn't identity theft, it's identity loaning. You know, like what you do to our games. That'll teach you to pirate. /sony

That is way cooler than TFA, make sure you open up "options" and get a look at the changing palette.

I for one welcome our luminous rotating light-speed overlords.

How easy would it be to jam HF radios? I mean, the idea is that were being attacked by an entity powerful enough to compromise the most advanced systems in the world, wouldn't radio be an easy task in comparison?

Speak for yourself. I don't even work in a store, I just shoot shoplifters. Fun fact, 90% of shoplifters are babies.

Is that a 'Q'? How am I supposed to pronounce it? Makketa?

I figured you were just getting shocked for forgetting.

You can't collect mushrooms? I'm really trying to be sensitive here, but on my quality of life scale, mushroom collecting ranks really, really low. If I have to choose between mushroom collecting and CO2 free electricity, I'm pretty sure the mushrooms are never going to win. Of course, renewables would be even better. Lets hope for that in the long term. In the short term, I just don't think mushroom arguments is what is going to sway me... or anyone.

I think the original poster meant 400 km square. As in 400 km x 400 km. Or 400,000 x 400,000 meters. That is 160,000,000,000 square meters, I'm sure you can see where that factor of 1000 is hiding now. 400 km x 400 km is a lot of space, but once again, not exactly the the entire world. For example, not one would miss 400 x 400 kilometers of Kansas.

This crisis, bad as it is, is still just a drop in the bucket compared to what we may be doing to our atmosphere with coal. I'd take a world powered by nuclear any day. At least the problems with nuclear are local-ish.

It seems weird to me that there are 400+ people in America alone that have a net worth in the same range as these 15 fictional characters. And the richest have around as much as all 15 of these fictional characters combined. Apparently we can't even imagine the type of wealth the richest of the rich have. It is hard imagining enough money to make $5-10 million a day on interest alone, let alone what to spend it on.

I backup my files every time this poll shows up on slashdot. Keeps me fairly safe. I guess it is time for another round of backing up.

Obesity does have strong correlations to health problem, but your insensitive stereotypes are rude and unfounded. Making such demeaning caricatures out of heavier individuals is simply not helping the issues. Yes, many people would reap many health benefits from losing weight, but almost as many underweight people would reap similar benefits from gaining weight.

It is always important to remember that the #1 health risk to the obese is not heart problems or diabetes, it is misdiagnosis. So many people and even doctor assume that if you're heavy, all your health problems are caused by that, and so they often miss obvious symptoms of other real, life threatening conditions. It is also important to remember that an unstable weight correlates to health problems even more strongly than obesity. Many heavier individuals are pressured by peers and doctors to lose weight, and they often attempt to do so with unhealthy means, such as various eating disorders. This often leads to fluctuating weight and other problems. If you have to choose between fluctuating weight and obesity, obesity is statistically much safer.

Not to beat a dead horse, but another thing to keep in mind is that correlation is not causation. Many instances in the statistics of obesity can be shown to involve the correlation of "I am sick, and it is making me heavy". When these cases are weeded out, the correlations become much weaker, and it becomes even more obvious that the underweight or inactive are at just as much risk as the obese.

In conclusion, you can decide, if you wish, that obesity is not a responsible way to live. I would accuse you of insensitivity but nothing more. But ridiculing and stereotyping the obese as moronic imbeciles that are out of control and grossly irresponsible is crossing the line. I wouldn't call you quite as bad as a racist, but you would be quickly approaching it. The fact of the matter is that very few of the people who are obese would live up to any of those demeaning stereotypes, and probably just as many (per capita) "normal" individuals would live up to them if you simply looked. But you aren't looking, because you are singling out the obese and deciding to throw your vile at them, when they simply don't deserve it anymore than anyone else.