In my mind, disallowing people from criticizing government actions and government policy is a serious violation of the First Amendment. It is exactly what the First Amendment was written to prevent. I hope someone will challenge this issue in court.

The best way to win in court is to violate the secret unconstitutional orders and get arrested. That's also the highest risk thing to do. But getting arrested and charged seems quite a bit higher profile than having to close your business. OTOH having to close your business is pretty bad and makes the case worth hearing. Problem is they'll first try to make him take the case to a secret court and if it's just a business thing rather than being in jail the public is less likely to notice.

Not saying I blame him for taking the less risky road at all, just that it's less likely to make a difference.

Taken that way, the AI examples in the topic article are really touching the essence of humor.

The essence of humor is surprise. They are getting surprise by looking for words that have different meanings in different contexts and using a canned phrasing to bring two disparate contexts together only on the very last word of the sentence - which bring the surprise. The boost you speak of is possibly there by combining a charged topic like "relationships" with something very boring like software or "source". Notice that "source" isn't even going to register with the general public and they won't even get the joke, although they may get the booster (open relationship) even if they have no clue what source is. Anyway, they're only being funny due to one single trick here.

If its a good and solid idea/plan, someone else could/should do it. Eccentric billionaires groves on trees, right?

Not ones with any ambition to innovate.

I had to add those last 2 words because many have tons of ambition to grow their empire or fortune.

2 responses from annon and neither one explains why so many mirrors. Are masks in direct contact with the chip? If *not* then you could make fine adjustments with somewhat larger adjustments of these mirrors. But I speculate - hence the question. What's up with all those mirrors?

The picture seems to show the EUV light bouncing off 9 or 10 mirrors. What's up with that? It seems like getting good alignment on all that would be nearly impossible. Or are those "active" mirrors used for progressively correcting the alignment? What's up with those things?

Thanks for any insight.

Does it run Flightgear?

Don't they have to license the players "likeness" for NFL-based football video games? And doesn't the NFL make exclusive deals for video games? Isn't this the reason there aren't competing games using real players?

Only if the NCAA secured the rights to it from the players.

So on NPR just this morning they were interviewing the head of one of those oversight or committees and he was all about how snowden was wrong about the scope and what was reported is way more info than they really collect. It's just the metadata - he had to point out the oddness of the word metadata probably to make people think about it and get confused. So we continue to learn new things: 1) what snowden said about domestic data collection 2) he's proof that they don't have protections against misuse of the data and 3) we can't trust the authorities to tell us what's going on (as evidenced by TFA here contrasted with said NPR interview) because they actively lie about it to the public and the rest of the government.

So congress is trying to pick winners and losers in the tech space?

Just like the SS trust fund is largely in Treasuries. Joy.

Yep. It's not that SS is going to run out of money. Its that they're going to have to pay that money back as the boomers retire and congress doesn't want to do that.

1) You use no math. This conveys no information to those who might actually take something away from an article, while giving the masses a fluff piece which at best make them think they know something about the topic.

2) You use math. Now you can convey something meaningful to some part of the audience. You'll turn off some people too, but at least they'll realize they don't actually understand it.

One is better for sales, Two is better for humanity.

From what I can tell part of the problem in Detroit is that the pension funds invested in city bonds - a financially stupid move. So now if the city defaults on its bonds the pension funds are screwed. Had those funds invested in something sensible the problem would not be nearly as dire for the pensioners.

Why the fuck can a web site already slurp up my browsing history? Never mind the browser pre-processing it into interests for them, I don't want them to have it at all. Please Firefox devs, plug the holes instead of making them more useful to web sites.

The only solution would be to run secure data channels between all the computers in a car, and while this is possible and not even a real burden, why would you?

It is a burden. Most of them are still running a 500kbps or 1Mbps CAN network and it's already nearly maxed out. Add a security layer and they'll just barf. It's not like you're going to run an RSA algorithm on a PIC in a door module to prevent unauthorized control of the locks and windows.