> Does this seem like yet another easily fabricated excuse the police can use to search your property?

Uh... no. No search is involved or permitted solely based on an anonymous tip... just pulling someone over. This falls under the "reasonable suspicion" standard for pulling someone over. They pulled me over for "accelerating too fast out of an intersection" at about the time the bars were closing... that was reasonable suspicion that I was drinking and driving and all they needed to pull me over even though there IS no crime for "accelerating too fast".

The "reasonable suspicion" standard is MUCH lower than "probable cause" which is required for a search. They still can't search you based on an anonymous tip... just pull you over and ask you questions, which you can of course refuse to answer.

People discussing this issue would do well to bone up on the difference between "reasonable suspicion" and "probable cause". People misuse the terms all the time... they are very different, and anyone who interacts with, or may interact with the police, should know what the terms mean.

That, or developping time-travel / multiverse-shift.

Interestingly, the same things can be said about High Energy Physics - in the last half century, physicists have figured out the standard model of particle physics. Meanwhile, the cost of pushing back the energy frontier (cf LHC) is at the level where it funding is required from a large portion of the Western world to make a major discovery. Research is driven by grad students and post docs, most of whom can never get a permanent position, while funding is diminishing in real terms.

For me, the current academic system needs updating from the 19th century. It is bad for science not to make the change, because we see the good staff leaving to find a proper job.

No it won't. It will produce an electric field which can be used to push charges around, but will not produce a charge.

Nope - no electrochemical reaction. You need metals of differing electronegativity, like Pb and PbO2.

You're right it won't, but you might want to brush up on what they are before the apocalypse.

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Lack of self-control can easily be induced: the more control you have over them, the easier it is to deprive them of control over themselves.

That has always bother me too. I'd much rather get an old 2CV - 48 mpg, 4 people seated in comfort, front wheel drive. Not a single thing better than a 60 year old French marvel of engineering.

Seriously? Never wondered what it would feel like to hit a baseball across the street and through a window? Never wondered what the sound would be like and not thinking beyond the cool sound of breaking glass tossed the ball up and let swing. And then in unexpected joy realized you hit it perfectly, to hear the glorious sound of that window break only to have your stomach sink to the depths realizing that you broke a damn window?

As for Debian / Ubuntu:
The 1.0.1g package is for the testing and unstable versions (Jessie, sid), in Wheezy the bug is fixed in v1.0.1e-2+deb7u5.

Journalists ARE spies, their mere peculiarity is that they (supposedly) work for the general public.

You should decide on the solution then agitate for it. For example, one might say Proportional Representation is a solution, as it permits for a broader spectrum of parties/mandates/issues to be represented. (This is my opinion having voted in UK for ~ 4 elections).

Right. It's hard to explain all those nuances in plain language, doubly so when it's not my native language.
Elements with an unstable nucleus - radioactive
Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by the proper particle - fissionable
Elements that break down when their nucleus is hit by pretty much any neutron - fissile