Seriously, I'd be very interested in this too.

That would be great. I would love to see criminal charges for criminal actions at the banks and financial sector in general.

What everyone seems to miss lately, however, is that he can only publish information that is leaked to him.

He's not hacking the DoD or Bank of America. Someone from internal to the organization(s) sent him all this documentation.

Don't forget the IWANTAPONYisms, where the dipsticks who are in control want all sorts of shit that often isn't technically in scope (Or is, but was underbid because it wasn't specified - like printing 30 copies of every deliverable [instead of 1] and having to have additional manpower to actually DO that) but contractors have to bend over backwards to do anyways, since you can't risk losing the goodwill of the client.

Why yes, I have had to put up with this crap, why do you ask?

What, haven't you driven on the highway lately?

I mean, seriously.

The self-discharge on Li-ion and Li-poly batteries is generally too slow to generate significant heat. The self-discharge rate as well as discharge cycle waste heat from them are significantly lower than other battery types, such as NiMH/NiCd or Lead Acid

One of the really nice things about Li-ion and Li-polymer batteries in the applications that I'm familiar with - radio control cars - is that even under pretty high loads they don't heat up. It's only when you get to loads in the 50-100C (Call it about 1kW load on a typical 'extended life' gaming laptop battery [10 amp hours]) for minutes at a time that they warm slightly.

Basically, unless they are self-discharging at the rate of an entire battery in less than a couple minutes (indicative of a defect, by the way), they aren't generating even a hundredth of the waste heat that you get in a wood pile.

Yea, that one is called Facebook Connect.

Thats the one! Don't you know, free market fixes everything, including an over-abundance of critical thinking skills.

He's making fun of people who believe without evidence in the invisible hand of the free market with regards to broadband competition in the US.

Most places in the country have Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, and it well behooves one to look into these.

I get about 15-25lbs of fresh produce, locally grown by a group of Amish farmers, every week - and it costs me about $15/wk and a half hour on Saturday running up to the local farmer's market to pick it up. Some places have the same kind of thing for grass-fed beef and (genuinely) free range chicken, and occasionally pork too.

Generally speaking, it's not a weak immune system that causes the abundance of bacteria in food animals - it's the knee-deep fecal matter in their pens.

The mad cow disease outbreak was caused by feeding the parts that didn't get put into ground beef into the feed for other cows. Now, they're banned from that... instead they feed the bits of any other species into the cow feed, and vis-versa.

If you really want motivation to switch to grass-fed beef, do a little research into commercial meat farming. It's terrifying.

Don't forget about heat, either. Heat dissipation in space is a pain in the ass, and throwing a few hundred extra watts of heat at every data problem is a lot less viable than it is under your desk.

Pro tip: Governments have tanks, helicopters, cruise missiles, GPS, satellites, and trained/disciplined armies. They don't fear your semi-auto shotgun.

Just look at Afghanistan - and they are armed to the teeth even compared to the US gun nuts. Were the US government to become so oppressive as to actually spawn a domestic uprising, they more than likely would be spinning PR, so it wouldn't matter how many civvies they killed, unlike now in Afghanistan.

I support responsible firearm ownership. I target shoot. I don't make the mistake of thinking I could take on a government with a couple of long guns and my personal ammo stash.

I am, however, entirely prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

The critical difference is that you have one vote to cast. The RIAA and MPAA have hundreds of millions to spend on lobbyists and not-legally-bribes-but-may-as-well-be-called-that.

Of course it is. There are all sorts of websites that limit the stuff you can post to particular things - go read pretty much any forum rules on the entire Internet, or any kind of open-source project hosting, or even art hosting websites. They mandate licensing, liability, acceptable word usage. Freedom of speech laws are specifically to prevent _governments_ from smothering speech, and say nothing about private contracts.

It's a good thing there wasn't any music being played in the break room, or the local branch of the RIAA would have had them crucified.