So Did OpenBSD's much vaunted refactor of OpenSSL turn up this bug before the OpenSSL team found it?

However the government needs you to be a willing party when they take control of your thermostat/driving distances/water usage/ability to procreate/breathe -- so you "must" change your mind or they will change it for you :)

NASA has become too political -- I am unable to trust their prediction models.

But I'm sure this NASA service will be a vital political service when 2050 and 2100 roll around, so they can show the rest of the world that we're in compliance with the G7's will.

What is this, the Third Reich?

End government backed college loans: only cash. The college system is a big fat business. Subsidizing the college industry with government backed loans puts price pressure on the education commodity. Remove the subsidy and prices must fall for any college to have any students at all. Sure, not all college prices will come down -- but the baseline set by ability for everyone to borrow must drop.

Keeping people functioning in a smaller radius concentrates the population, which consolidates income and sales taxes into a single region and subsequently centralizes economic and political power.

But it helps the environment, so pay no attention to that police state behind the curtain!

No intelligent man wants a relationship with any modern woman: they're not worth the trouble.

But no worries. Society will go on (See Idiocracy).

So until they have open up that new frontier on Mars, I think I'll play some video-games.

Is the mass of these waves large enough to affect the earth's spin on it's axis?

Especially since they are far away from the earth's center of gravity, it seems they would have more effect.

I'm thinking specifically of the tsunami in Japan -- how that much movement of so much water might have introduced a "wobble" in the earth's spin.

Geo Fast Endoscopic Rail (GOFER)

There's no question now: if there's an acronym the Brits have to build it.

The natural gas industry spends billions of dollars to capture methane for sale and combustion.

This methane plume represents millions of dollars lost (possibly billions since its so large) -- if NASA can locate the source, I'm sure more than one oil & gas company would be more than happy to keep all that money from blowing away with the wind.

Canada!

You'll notice the comment-moderation "wold-pack" happens on Slashdot mainly around the time of the US elections.

It's the same thing: all contrary views get modded out of existence and only one viewpoint is promoted.

This just affirms doubts concerning the US claims of North Korean hacking Sony Pictures or any-given-hullabaloo about cyber attacks.

Perhaps it's all a deception to achieve some political end?

Or perhaps Snowden and Russia, et. all are trying to undermine our trust in the supreme integrity of our not-to-be-quesitoned leaders :)

Just think how much money will save by not having all those pesky congressman and senators!

Yeah, they had this thing called the Constitution that was suppose to do that.

I remember a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who taught a good class about it. Not sure if he's still there anymore...