As in "The walls will wobble, but they won't fall down"?

We should launch a massive research effort, figure out the strongest possible password, and make everyone use that.

What's up with people and these retarded knee-jerk reactions ? And you got even modded insightful. This was obviously premeditated. You don't think the guy would be capable of doing the same thing if a clueless flight attendant was there while pilot is taking a leak ? A guy capable of killing himself and 150 other people like this is perfectly capable of knocking the flight attendants lights out before locking the door, and if he really intended to crash the plane... he would indeed punch her/him out first.

Second thing... there's what.. 100k flights per day for the last 10 years ? That's like 360000000 flights. For one freak occurrence you should not introduce new laws and regulations and shit. That's exactly what happened on 9/11 .. knee jerk reactions which introduced dozens of new regulations and laws that basically did nothing but made life more difficult and annoying (security theater). And don't give me that crap how every life matters.. nobody cares really about strangers, ottherwise everybody would be in tears over starving children in Africa and some other places instead of stuffing themselves with pizzas, burgers and beer while reading slashdot and playing Call of Duty or whatever. This is just IN now.. plane crashes. So everybody is commenting about it, talking about it, and falsely emotional about it.

And finally, comment on your post title (This validates the US policy). -- The US has some of the stupidest policies ever. They are like everything else - fake.
On the surface (or on the paper) they look cool and effective, in real life they're just a shallow cover or a front for taking away your freedom and controlling your life.

I hope Europeans will actually think how they gonna deal with this instead of doing what Americans are doing. Perhaps incorporate emergency biometric scanner or something like that on the door that can override the "unlock" option ? There are dozens of better systems than .. "oh yeah, we can solve the problem by putting the flight attendant in while pilot is out"...

Jesus.

Digital Single Market ?!?

Tell me: why do they want to build a dating site again?

That way *all* the factories can go to China and *all* the call centers can go to India! Yay!

Greece just called... they say they're waiting for their credit approval to go through...

Emperor Julian the Apostate! (AD 332 - AD 363)
"He is clearly Rome's second ever philosopher-ruler, after the great Marcus Aurelius. But if Marcus Aurelius was weighed down by war and plague then, Julian's greatest burden was to be that he belonged to a different age. Trained classically, learned in Greek philosophy he would have made a fine successor to Marcus Aurelius. But those days had gone, now this distant intellect seemed out of place, at odds with many of his people, and certainly with the Christian elite of society. "

http://www.roman-empire.net/co...

--nice bio by Gore Vidal, too.

Because the chips need to be made on single-crystal material, which needs to be grown on a single crystal substrate.

This is, by the way, not particularly new in the solar cell research community. Photovoltaics researchers have been developing technologies like this for a long time-- it's called "epitaxial lift-off" or "monolithic metamorphic" in the most recent versions (with "metamorphic" indicating a change in lattice constant), but older variants were called "cleft" and "peeled film technology".

Why is google listed?

They aggregate and anonymize the data before they sell it; it's just statistical information at that point.

You agree to some pretty draconian rules when you get a Q clearance. One of them is submitting any future publications for review, with the understanding that they will be censored of any classified material. At issue here is whether or not information which is already public should be considered classified, just because they're too lazy to declassify information which has already been disclosed.

In this particular case, not only was the information they are upset about disclosed, a lot more information was disclosed on top of it. I remember the particular article which disclosed it, since it was in an August 1982 journal discussing how to build X-Ray lasers for SDI using exactly the technology under discussion. Instead of putting a baffle between the halves of the device and your fusion fuel at the second focus, at the second focus you put an EMP target that then uses tin and lead tubes containing wires to use the EMP to power the X-Ray lasers. I think I have a copy of it around my house (somewhere), because it's the same issue that announced energy break-even for hot fusion in Tokamak 2, which I though was a pretty cool thing.

So the info has been out there at least 32 1/2 years.

His problem is that he has prior restraint agreements with some pretty nasty teeth in them.

You're right. He's thinking small.

Personally, I simply don't need a bunch of big plastic tchotschkies, no matter how fast I can print them.

Cheese it, it's the Feds!

Everyone hide your Beryllium-Pollonium detonators and your K-alpha reflector cavities, and act natural, for God's sake!

He had one at the time he helped invent the things. Yes, it's *THAT* Dr. Kenneth W. Ford who is the author we are talking about.

No, it's a worked out long form math problem unique to the test that was passed back out the window, and an answer received. The educational material was there.

Whoever heard of an asinine, progress retarding lawsuit coming out of East Texas before?

Anyone?