On second thought, maybe not ...

If you live in California and buy internet or mail order goods for which sales tax is not deducted - you owe the state a "use" tax on the goods. It's right there on your state tax return. California doesn't trust its citizens to report and pay it, so they want an out of state company to collect it for them. Amazon rightly said - no way.

How about passing laws that make sense in the first place?

What, and set a precedent?!

How WELL will it run Windows 8? Microsoft always adds new bloat... um ... features to their OS's in each new release. So it will run in existing machines, but will it be usable?

But only if the question is: "What energy technology is only ten years away, and has been for the last thirty years?"

Free as in beer

You might want to look up "Stephen Decatur".

Not a big deal, my university cafeteria was doing this years ago. Overall, a lot tastier than their Soylent Green burgers.

Having read "Snow Crash", my first reaction was, of course REASON is a weapon.

And the media is going to look at Obama's e-mails too. Right? Anyone? ... crickets ...

So what's a good alternative to Skype that works cross-platform? I use Skype with Linux and Android connecting to Mac and Windows users. Is Jitsi a reasonable solution?

Icarus might want to avoid it. Just sayin' ...

On the Internet no one knows you are a dog ... until now!

Air-gap your production SCADA/embedded stuff

Stuxnet was designed to use USB-flash drives as a transmission vector.

The BBC can just fire up the TARDIS and go back an fix the problem.