I am replying to try and dissuade you from continuing to rape small children.

See how that works?

The bill, which has been signed by the governor, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing.

Great job letting bogus assertions sneak into the summary masquerading as fact.

Obviously he meant "Threat Level Rouge", the one above "Condition Fuchsia" and second only to "Alerte Noire"

In your analogy, there's a mile-long queue of skilled thieves outside your door and they're busting open your locks every 5 seconds with zero effort and no repercussions. I think that in this situation, yes, people *would* tell you to stop forking out for new locks.

They might also question your policy of strip-searching invited guests before letting them into your house.

What's to stop root from forcing a password reset and then snarfing the new password before it gets hashed?

I think the GP's point was that even if you chopped a sizeable chunk off it, it would still weigh precisely 1kg. It logically follows that the universe's weight, expressed in kg, would suddenly jump upwards by a very large amount.

PS3 games are already spectacularly inconvenient, often requiring 30 minutes or more of downloading, patching, installing and firmware-updating before letting me actually play the game I just bought. Having to type in a serial via gamepad would be the least of it.

Also:

No, it applies to current iPads and iPhones.

What has the iOS beta got to do with the next iPhone's CPU?

I know that chronically uninformed articles are par for the course on Slashdot, but not understanding the difference between software and hardware is a new one.

'A4' is Apple's name for a chip based on ARMs Cortex A8 architecture. The next chip will probably be called 'A5', and will probably be based on Cortex A9. A4/A5 and A8/A9 are two seperate nomenclatures.

Also, to 'flaunt' means to

This is not something an inanimate object like a phone can do.

The Military Option: Bushehr is not Osirak:

the GOI does not know where all of the targets are located

potential targets are well dispersed throughout the country, with several located in built-up civilian areas

any attack on Bushehr would likely result in Russian casualties and endanger Moscow's cooperation

IMHO this also sends a message: "We've been peeing in your centrifuges for months without even having to leave our offices."
Mossad already had the ninja assassin rep, now they get to be ninja assassin hackers.

You can only kill the scientists and bomb the facilities you know about; a virus can go anywhere.

Nope, seems about right. But you can reinfect a PC by inserting an infected USB key and viewing the contents, so until you know the infection-vectors (which took a while to discover) you'd have difficulty staying clean.

Stuxnet was made to stay undetected as long as possible - it only mucks about with attached drives (rapidly spinning them up and down) at long intervals and for short periods. So instead of a room full of exploding centrifuges, you get an abnormally high failure-rate. It even records sensor data from normal operation and replays it while it's messing with the drives to hide itself from anyone monitoring it.

Israel is (by far) the most nervous about Iran's nuclear program, and already had one pre-emptive attack on a nuclear plant under it's belt that (in their worldview) was a resounding success and is a point of national pride.
So one of the drives targeted by stuxnet is manufactured in China...I hate to state the obvious, but what isn't?