He's not slow, he just hasn't finished the "quitting AOL" exit process. You know the one where you had to all but get a court order from a Judge for AOL to acknowledge and cancel your subscription ..

Except that this is Slashdot, and nobody here thinks that the summary has anything to do with the commentary on whatever blog reposted (and likely mutilated) the original link. We just come here to express mutual outrage at the politics today.

And the difference between getting chipped and getting fingerprinted is?
At least getting fingerprinted allows me a few liberties that getting chipped wouldn't. How long before marketing droids would simply take your chip information and start pigeonholing you into a demographic ripe for whatever they want. It's just too Gattaca / 1984 for me.

Cable Television, a subscription to HBO, AND care about a particular TV show.

I'll offer a translation without all the buzzwords:

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So I offer a solution: run it through the xkcd rng, and select that number.
If I'm not mistaken, "exemplify tomorrow's best technology, today." is the appropriate answer. Sadly, I have no idea what that means. Call the marketing department, or better yet, don't.

I have to point out the "recommended" story at the bottom of the page ..

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/12/2332239/indian-man-charged-with-blasphemy-for-exposing-miracle?sdsrc=popbyskidbtmprev

No, the FBI seized the mayfirst.org servers.

This needs to be said again and again, until it is heard.

If a business wants their corporate viewpoint heard in government, they need to encourage their employees, clients/customers, and distributors to vote in their favor, rather than simply throwing money at the problem.

I'm fine with making a political statement, but please refrain from movements while nude at the screeners. That sh*t's got to stop someplace - use the restroom first.

Society is perfectly suited toward this. Contract work allows you to charge for a service you provide regardless of the time spent on that. If you can do a contract in ten hours, you could make four times what other contractors do, which allows you to run rings around their service, quality, and networking abilities.

The obvious problem I see with this concept is marketing. Instead of the Government spending its' money wastefully like it does now, we would see a whole new level of wasteful spending on justifying how each department spends their money in a vain attempt to fleece the other departments of theirs. I still think a better way to serve this is to simply donate money to non-profits that focus on these particular areas. Seriously, are there *no* outlets for non-profit space research? They're called engineering students, aren't they?

Kennedy gave us a dream, a goal, and a deadline to get there. I think the only reason people like NASA is because they're the only government branch that is capable of setting, and meeting goals that align with our dreams.

That only happens if you engage the clutch.

What bothers me most about those polls is that they query the average American. Does the average American fly on a regular basis? Sure, some 2 million people fly every day, but is that significant? Even if we assume 1) that the average person only takes two flights a year (there and back), and 2) that everyone who flies domestically is American, we get 356 million people flying in America each year. That's roughly the amount of people here, right?

What happens when we assume that the average airline customer flies ten times a year (one way)? We get a fifth of Americans who have any reason to care, and four fifths of Americans who might see some benefit to stopping some "terrorist".

Then again, what happens if we add the 1% of travelers who travel round trip weekly? We're down to maybe 7 million Americans who fly with any regularity and have reason to care. That's what, 2% of the population that travel regularly?

Quick googling shows I could be pretty close on my calculation, but I don't see any direct comparison that illustrates what percentage of Americans use our airline travel services either yearly or in their lifetime. The closest information I found was this:

So really, what I see is that an alarming amount of Americans (notably more than the client base of airlines) are against these scanners. I also don't see any current information about these statistics in the past two years, especially since the radiation issues have come to light.

Writing a scientific paper when dead is even more difficult.