How is it that the home country of the author of 1984 just doesn't get it? How is it they are letting this kind of thing go on? It's truly amazing and sad!

How do you actually ban something that isn't run by any one entity? I guess you can make it illegal to use crypto currency for any exchange by the government controlled entities but that doesn't actually ban Bitcoin or anything else.

In my 1000 square foot house I spend $1000 a year on electricity. How exactly would I pay for $15K - $20K worth of solar cells in 5 years? I spend about $620 a year on natural gas to heat and cook. I guess I could go all electric, which would cost me another $5 in appliances. At that point I might break even in 15 years, about the time I would need to replace the solar cells. By then they should be cheeper and more efficient. So yea by about 2030 solar would probably take care of my needs. Till then I'm holding out with my dead dino (plankton) power.

No cause with out those grammar mistakes their would be 30 pricent fuer com-mints on /.

Is this surprising? It appears that any game of connecting a row of pieces on a flat plane is a first player wins game. Connect 4 and tic tac toe all have the first player winning.

The Open Office building is actually smaller on the inside.

This is a very good example of people who like to call them selves "Liberal" not being very liberal. Technology will advance and apparently some people don't like it in the same way some other people don't like gay marriage or pot smoking.

What do you say, lets start a campaign to get the standards and measures people to make human hair an actual measurement standard.

Yes and we've also found a NAT works fairly well to reduce the glaring security issues when the existing firewall software is inadequate.

Of course your Mac doesn't have a parallel port. It was an example and your 5 year old Linux/UNIX box does have one which is typically what runs a lot of lab equipment. And yes there are Windows 98 systems still in use because of these issues.

I'm woking in a large university where you find a larger percentage of Mac and Linux systems. It's hell keeping all operating systems updated properly. Researchers get grants to do something then spend $2million on the custom systems build on a particular version of an OS. Now it's 5 years later are still using the old OS because it would cost another $1million to upgrade the custom code and get new equipment that doesn't use parallel ports for data transfers.

More hippy FUD. "....according to the National Cancer Institute and other health agencies, there's no sound scientific evidence that any of the artificial sweeteners approved for use in the U.S. cause cancer or other serious health problems." http://www.mayoclinic.org/artificial-sweeteners/art-20046936

WHAT! you mean that paper I submitted to the journal last week using /. poling statistics to better understand the political and philosophical links between obscure metaphor and geek culture was all based on... on.. nonsense. Now I'm going to have to start my thesis all over. :(

Is someone trying to be smart here? Was this suppose to be a "Conjunction Fallacy"? If I have a license for each air and land then I can't really answer truthfully with the given options. I could pick either single license option, I guess, but then you aren't really getting accurate results of license possession.

Apparently these "climate scientists", their families and friends on this tour of Mawson’s camp site can't tell the difference between weather and climate. It appears they so believed in declining Antarctic ice they forgot to look at the weather and recent trends. There's an unprecedented amount of ice down there and these fools ignored that and went ahead and tried to complete their tour of a historic site. Exactly who are the idiots here?