The right to bear arms was put into the constitution specifically to protect the people from a corrupt government, militia, or police force. Now we need a new right, specifically the right to bear cameras (and full protections on what we record, including the right to share it.) Sure, there's some details to work out; no recording classified stuff, etc., but anywhere a police action occurs, the public should have the right to record it, and to use that recording as they see fit.

While you visit a friend, give his kids a bootable USB stick and let THEM play the game. When they "win", show him what they just did.

All they want is more international traffic to cross thru china so they can eavesdrop. They've been trying to do this for years already by mucking with BGP and other routing tricks. The international community should use it solely for honeypots and as a base from which to probe chinese computers. We really should be pushing for ways to route ALL internet traffic around china and other repressive governments. Not to get the packets into the country past their censors, but to close off all business and governmental organisations from access. Or at least to protect our datastreams from their snooping and possible manipulation. Moving any form of resources, especially compute resources, into chine for any reason other than to serve the chinese is foolhardy at best.

"That's how things work in a representative government." No, that's how things work in a schizophrenic government. Nowhere in the constitution is power over the government given to political parties. They were invented solely for overcoming slow communications and lack of education during elections. We have significantly improved both. Yet our "representatives" do not represent us at all; they vote according to who they party with rather than in the interests of their constituencies. You've heard the phrase "across the aisle." What it refers to is the fact that senators and representatives do not sit with others from their own state - they sit in two big camps of Democrats vs. Republicans. They should be forced to sit by state and to completely deny any party affiliation once they are elected. Right now most of a politician's time is spent trying to thwart the efforts of half the government. It's a wonder we get anything done at all the way this beast keeps tearing at itself.

Rather than tunnelling in and trying to push around an irregular mass, adjust it a little to suit. Focus lots of sunlight on it until you have a molten ball. Then stick in a nozzle and fill the center with air, like glass blowing. Done right you could even stretch it out to a cigar shape. The molten phase would provide an opportunity to mix a few asteroids together or add a few metric tons of stuff to make some rough alloy with the nickle-iron. Once it cools you can move in and you're off.

/var/log/messages and dmesg are my usual go-to places for such info. In most daily usage, if you can do some thing with a computer, there's at least 5 ways to do it. Which one you use is usually more a matter of style and habit than one being all that much better than another.

Crime would be untraceable. Kidnapping, murder, theft - just a few sparkles and it's over.

I usually season my food synethesially. Colors and textures evoked by the flavors of the ingredients guide my recipes. My creations have received praise from people who didn't know that I owe my cooking prowess to past experience with hallucinogenic substances. And even tho I do not use auditory clues in my cooking, I DO use it in other applications of synesthesia. It is clearly obvious to me that the local auditory environment would influence the taste (and other sensory experiences) of food. If you don't understand or identify with this, I'm sorry you have such a bland sensorium. Try the mushrooms.

You want to aim a camera at me and use facial recognition or even trace the capillaries in my skin? Fine - I'm all for it. Want to shoot a laser in my eye? Not a chance! I'm adding a set of mirrored contact lenses to my tinfoil hat collection.

The variation in decay rates is said to have two cycles; a yearly fluctuation, and a 33-day cycle (proposed first because that's the rotation of the sun's core, THEN found in the data). These experiments should have been run for at least 66 days, preferably for more than two years, before making claims that this has anything at all to do with the effects that have been observed so far. They can't even say that gold-198 displays evidence of the phenomenon they are trying to measure. This experiment cannot provide any useful information for investigating the possible connection between nuclear decay rates and distance to the sun. Nothing to see here but some attention grabbing with no real substance, gold-198 or not. Yawn.

Of course the trained experts are reluctant to change their view of how the world works. In proper amounts this skepticism is a good thing. I just hope they are open minded enough to recognize the signal in the data, if there is one. As for it being neutrino flux - that's just conjecture. It may simply be distance to the sun's core rather than a particle. What if the fission or fusion of nuclei has an impact on the stability of nearby, possibly entangled nuclei?

First of all, try to break what you just wrote. Not hack it; just break it. Lean on the control key while typing input, feed it binary files for text & data. Run it in a VM on the slowest hardware you have. Make a game of trying to break your own code.

Then go back and do it again, but this time play black-hat hacker. Get creative rather than methodical. Try sql statements everywhere that might touch a database. Hammer every communication method it uses with denial of service abuse and then crafty mis-information that only you know enough to design.

The point is, make a game of it and you'll enjoy it. You could always trade code with a co-worker and keep score of how many bugs you each find in eachother's code.

Not remembering dreams well indicates a deficiency in vitamin B6 and or Zinc. Try taking 40 or 50 milligrams of each every morning or at lunch. It takes zinc about 3-4 days to build up a serum level, so give it a good week before deciding if it helps. REM sleep (dreaming) is a more awake state than deep theta. At least more dreaming can make sleep more fun.

To an observer within the aggregation, the formation of an event horizon would make it seem as if the entire rest of the universe were suddenly infinitely far away in space and time. You can't get there from here anymore. As you said, you can't really get there from the outside; that's because what was inside is infinitely far away. Spacetime is stretching towards the center faster than light can go.