Unfortunately, the stupidity actually is real, painful, intense and relentless. It's boundless, infinite and beyond the realm of understanding. It burns.

And the US has used Echelon for industrial espionage against even its "allies" for 30 years.

U.S. government agencies pass wiretapped and intercepted information to American companies all the time. Trade secrets of non-U.S. energy companies have been passed to American companies, cell phone technology, labor negotiation strategies of non-U.S. companies with factories in the U.S. and intellectual property has been stolen and transferred for decades.

is people. Digg is crap because most people who post are idiots.

There needs to be a grown-up table, and the kids need to sit in the kitchen and be seen and not heard (from), just like the old days. :)

Aren't 25% of all the prisoners in the world already in American prisons? The police are just trying to stimulate the economy by improving the top line in the prison and criminal court industry.

Hey, it's not personal; it's business. Wars, invasions, thousands of otherwise unemployable feeling you up at airports (and bus and train stations soon!), militarized police forces, small town sheriffs with tanks and full battle gear and tens of thousands of people listening to all of your conversations and reading your email.

Land of the free, my ass. Land of the pansies who won't stand up to anyone.

Microsoft is the McDonald's of the desktop. They'll both be around a long time, serving up crap.

Americans shouldn't complain about the humiliation they suffer at the hands of mouth-breathing, tin-badge TSA goons.

You keep electing politicians who create, empower and fund these government programs to hire the stragglers from your high school who barely made it though, so you should just suck it up and stop whining. Sleep in the bed you made.

Because there is no legitimate reason to not do business. The relentless war mongering against fictional bogeymen is fascinating, too.

The problem with things like this is who "develops policies, oversees standards bodies and policies, and sits in judgment" of the UN General Assembly?

A few years ago I would have felt sorry for people without broadband or the Internet. Now I envy them.
There hasn't been anything good on the Internet in years. It's all crap. Reading the Internet will make you stupid now.

Yes. Remarkably, many of the surviving dummies have been elected to congress and others work for the TSA.

Those passengers were lucky they weren't tased, pepper sprayed and dragged off to jail.

Americans have elected politicians over and over again who write and pass laws like this and the Patriot Act. It's what the majority of your people want. Those too lazy or docile to vote differently have to accept their fate.

"The method could have allowed Japanese officials to issue accurate warnings of the deadly March 2011 earthquake and tsunami ten times faster than they did, say scientists."

The tsunami was known almost instantaneously and warnings issued where they could be. The METHOD of warning was affected since many loudspeakers didn't work because of the widespread power outage.

We see tsunami warnings almost instantly on Japanese TV immediately after a quake, or the information that there is no tsunami warning. For large quakes, we actually get a warning on TV before the quake is felt if it's far away. Quake warning -> quake is felt within 2 seconds.

Here's the money sentence from this thread: "However, ITER’s main purpose is not to put watts on the grid, but to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of fusion by creating a Q=10 plasma (10 times as much energy out as we put in)."

They're going to repeal those pesky Laws of Thermodynamics...

The value of Slashdot was the tech link. If this is the new direction in search of page views, it's a big disappointment and makes Slashdot just another site filled with U.S. political nonsense and crap.