Scrap prices, including copper have tanked in the past 90 days. From $4 to $1.50.

We dealt with several outages last year and early this year due to copper thefts in Dallas where they broke fiber while stealing the copper. They've stopped. Railroads were having problems because the brake piping on some cars and traction motor cables on locomotives are copper and brass, reports suggest they've almost come to to a halt.

Persistent cookies, embedded videos served by a company who's terms and conditions force the Federal govt to follow the laws of a State if there is a legal issue, copyrighted material, collection and storage of personal information without having done a privacy impact statement, surveys with out OMB paper work reduction act clearance, and the list goes on.

Mmmm... this site breaks all the above rules that are mostly hangovers from various Clinton era executive orders and laws (Cookies, PRA and PIA).

Many US government executive branch webmasters have been wanting to break these rules/laws for years. Several press reports seem to suggest this sort of web 2.0 type interactivity will be transferred to whitehouse.gov.

So I wonder who will win, the career OMB lawyers or a new administration. Oh, boy, will this be fun to watch.

I nominate seven random slashdotters. Rotate them every 12 months. But what level of Karma?

lets see, as your big brother, we'll borrow more from a country that wants to own us, tax the middle class further into poverty (how quick everyone forgets that Clinton ran on cutting taxes, but ended up raising them on the middle class), continue to ship more of our money to guys who want to kill us (that includes you, BTW) in the interest of keeping our backyard clean, further dumb down the education of our youth though unionized public schools, impose restrictions on speech, murder millions of more children, remove secret ballots in union elections, destroy the best health care system in the world along with much of the best medical research in the world, and forcefully disarm the population from ever being able to revolt again.

Yeah. Change. If I were you, I would disown this big brother and consider building a fence.

congrats on seeing through all the mudslinging and dirty politics that was employed by a party

As if the Obama/Dem's didn't sling any mud? Oh, that's right, the drive by/world media never covered that mud, only Republican mud.

I ponder if /. will cover the return of the fairness doctrine 1-3 years from now, or will it wait until term 2 when it is amended through net neutrality "needs" to impact this very discussion?