If Java API's are copyrightable, does this mean that Oracle has a copyright interest in every program ever written that uses those APIs?

Oracle's purpose in claiming the copyright on the Java API is not to claim derivative copyright interest on programs written in Java. Well, maybe later.

Oracle's purpose is to collect license fees from anyone who uses the Java APIs.

And since Android uses the Java APIs, that includes Google and all Android developers.

Where are the pictures of them dropping and leaving the backpacks in the exact spots the explosions took place?

They mentioned that on one newscast. They suggested that the FBI didn't want potental witnesses to get confused by what they saw personally and what they saw on TV.

Imagine at trial months from now, the defense attorney cross examining a witness, "Now Mr/Ms So-and-so, are you certain you personally saw my client place his backpack at the scene of the explosion or are you just remembering the video the FBI distributed after the incident?"

123D Design from Autodesk is free and compatible with 3D printers.

Here's a guy who used it to replace a critical piece of a mounting bracket for his TomTom GPS.

The video gives you some insight into the workflow from design to 3D printing.

g) Add an HDHomeRun DUAL - High Definition Digital TV Tuner so you can watch and DVR OTA TV over your network.

h) If you're not boycotting Sony, consider getting a Sony BDP-SP390 which streams Netflix, Hulu+, Amazon and plays Blu-ray Discs for a little more than a Roku.

However your statement that "The greatest enemy to capitalism are the capitalists... If you want to keep capitalism healthy simply make sure there are plenty of capitalists" appears to contain a contradiction. Were you being sardonic?

I think his point is that capitalists will always work to restrict competitors from entering the market, often by encouraging more government regulations to increase barriers to market entry. Hence, "the greatest enemy to capitalism are capitalists.".

Therefore the perhaps not obvious way to reduce this tendency is by encouraging more capitalists, thereby reducing the power of individual capitalists.

Did you notice the scale of that spill? Not even 2 miles long. Not fun, but living beneath a dam of any kind and is certainly a planned activity. Evacuating 100 sq miles is not.

And yet even less than 2 miles long the spill caused significantly more damage than TMI, the worst disaster at a commercial nuclear plant in the US.

When a coal plant blows up? Extremely localized damage and you can safely walk the site immediately after any fires etc.

Actually a coal plant blowing up is not the worst thing that could happen.

The worst thing that could happen is a coal fly ash slurry spill such as happened at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant on December 22, 2008.

Coal fly ash is nasty stuff and, depending on where the coal was mined, slightly radioactive and/or contaminated with heavy metals.

And, as far as I can tell, once it's remove from the coal plant exhaust, not regulated by the EPA.

So I was both elated and disappointed at the news that things seemed to be working as expected but that they were going to spend a couple more years doing engineering and science with WB-8.

On the bright side, in today's economy, maybe it's better for the Navy to scape together $5M and limp along than fund the full $200M and risk being cut out of the budget altogether.

Moreover, the basic principles of the Polywell are established. Maybe we'll hear about the first working full-scale prototype out of China or India or even Iran!

His research group is still around, but the Navy was pulling funding, last I heard,

According to Wikipedia:

As of August 15, 2012, the Navy had agreed to fund EMC2 with an additional $5.3 million over 2 years to work on the problem of pumping electrons into the whiffleball. They plan to integrate a pulsed power supply to support the electron guns (100+A, 10kV). WB-8 has been operating at 0.8 Tesla. The review of the work produced the recommendations to continue and expand the effort, stating: "The experimental results to date were consistent with the underlying theoretical framework of the Polywell fusion concept and, in the opinion of the committee, merited continuation and expansion."

Which I think is encouraging.

Apple wasn't ordered to tell Samsung all of the company's HTC secrets (i.e., the HTC settlement agreement).

They were ordered to hand the HTC settlement agreement over to Samsung's lawyers only (i.e., "Highly Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only").

There's a difference.

Lets see, my 10kW generator doesn't even power my whole house, ...

You don't seem willing to cutback your power consumption during a power outage, but you are willing to sit around in the dark and twiddle your thumbs.

Here's a wild idea I'll just throw out.

Don't use the microwave, kettle, washing machine, electric oven, flatscreen TV, tumble dryer and PC at the same time when you're running your generator.

Crazy I know, but it might work.

It has a pressurized ink cartridge like a space pen, but it's much cheaper and because it has a rubberized grip, it's much easier to hold.

It comes in 0.7 and 1.0 mm line widths and variety of ink colors. The line width isn't as fine as you might like, but then neither is the space pen.

Like this.

The Dervaes family of four produces 6000 lbs of organic food annually on 1/10 of an acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles.

Why the explicit blame on "private security contractors"? Why not fire any private company who is not doing their job and find one that can/will?

Then you gotta go through the whole bidding rigamarole again, train a whole new bunch of contractors and you don't know if they'll be any better than the ones you fired!

On the other hand, you've already got "trained" contractors working and on site (for a limited definition of "trained"). If you warn or punish the current security company, fire the incompetent guards, hire new, supposedly competent replacements, lather, rinse, repeat, you might end up with a competent security force.

Six of one, half dozen of the other.