If the Germans are announcing this, I can imply that many governments have just such an organization. I don't think my 1337 skills are up to the task of fighting off actual armies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States War of 1812, Mexian-American War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II. Others were authorized by Congress, the UN, and of course we had some undeclaired wars.

Didn't we "win" some of those. At least the last 3 in your list.

Reminds me of an old Dan's Data http://www.dansdata.com/gz039.htm. At some point he discusses ferroresonant power conditioners. Presumably one can get a whole house version. Warning: I am operating from memory, I didn't actually read the article again.

Can't we just put laser filters on the cockpit windows (or have the pilots wear laser safety glasses)? Maybe we can't filter *every* color laser (that may block too much normal light), but we could filter the green ones which the article mentions as the more troublesome type.

Charged not convicted. His defence team hasn't started to play yet.

There seems to be a concerted effort to make the government as useless as possible.

Pardus is an entertaining game. One could play for long stretches avoiding most other players.
If one joined a strong faction, one could stay within their territory, working for the "man" and have a good time. Unfortunately, it is a game with a limited number of "moves" per day.

Anyone else get all excited to see games they used to play in scientific papers? If I had known I could have published on it, I would have played more during grad school.

I have heard, but do not have a reputable source, that the overhead on NASA projects is 500%.
For those who do not know, budgets for academia and government work are calculated roughly as:
Actual Costs * Overhead = Budget
The Overhead goes to things like facilities, accounting, IT, etc.
Actual Costs include salaries (possible benefits), parts and supplies.
The Universities I have worked for have overheads around 50%.

The police report of your stolen computer should do a fine job of showing that you are not guilty of the infringing.

you sign up and are lazy and just go about posting stuff without thinking of any consequences.

there may be some need or times like causes when you want as much info about you up there.
I have little to hide but i have ONLY put up my birthdate and location , seriously strangers come to the door i have a 350 pound security guard thats gonna tell you about how privacy works

( will i get to post again?)

That's right, there's no more unknowns of the universe left. Hubble solved everything.

It's funny that just a short year ago the Slashdot herd was unanimous in its rabid hatred of Flash.

As soon as Apple, one of Slashdot's great Satans, adopts a similar stance the Slashdot herd suddenly is against Apple position and therefore by necessity defending Flash.

If Slashdot had any principles the herd's position wouldn't have changed. But Slashdot has no principles, what it has is cheerleading for underdogs. Flash is perceived in this fight as the underdog. But here's the thing, Adobe is no friend of Slashdot, quite the opposite in fact. Adobe wants nothing less than control of interactive media on the web. Does that sound like it aligns with any of the Slashdot herd's so-called principles?

No company is any more or less moral or opportunistic than any other. Not Microsoft, not Apple, not Adobe. They're all driven by the profit motive. Not even Google, the much beloved of the Slashdot herd, is above this. Google thanks you for your support and then datamines you on behalf of its true customers: advertisers.

And then there's the FSF on Ars Technica calling Apple the pot to Adobe's kettle. Here's the thing, if Apple wins and HTML5 becomes the standard for interactive media on the web, a wild-eyed true believer in the FSF cause would be way, way better off than if Flash ends up winning. Just ask anyone that uses something not quite mainstream enough for Adobe to bother supporting them, like BSD or Linux on PPC.

Well if you want to be strictly correct, and it seems that you do, some of it will be converted to acoustic noise and escape through the walls, or be transmitted out through the wires or end up changing the magnetic potential energy in hard disk platters.

But then how do you get that Internet access? If you cut your cable, you can't easily get cable Internet, and if you switch to a cell phone, you can't easily get DSL.

I think it's just been a couple years since you checked on this... A dry-loop is maybe a $10 charge from Verizon at worst, and with the deals, you'll get it cheaper. Time Warner doesn't charge extra for internet without TV, at all.

With the cost of cable, it's as easy decision there. For phone service, it's closer, but cell phone prices are dropping as well.