Whoops, you're about 100 years behind the time. It was Einstein in 1905 that made the connection between energy and mass, in the theory of relativity.

If you read the article, you'll notice that the 'hack' is a classic man in the middle attack, and the receiving end can receive both classic and quantum messages. The man in the middle (after reading the quantum message) passes it on as a classic message, and the receiving device does not give a warning that the message received is a classic message, instead of a quantum message.

So it's really an design error on the device side, not a true hack in that quantum states were undisturbed regardless of reading them.

Not just around AGW, it happens around stories about Apple or Microsoft or anything that people -feel- strongly about.

The problem is that a lot of people feel something about AGW, instead of really thinking about it. Most people just look at their own sources and ignore anything that is contrary to their belief. I can't find the link but a couple of days ago there was an article where they show that confronting people with evidence against their strongest belief strengthens it instead of making them critical and researching their own believes.

So whenever you see an article that has strong supporters and opposers, expect a lot of mod points going into raising the views of 'your side' and lowering the views of the 'other side'.

Perhaps it's time to let the researchers do the research.

Actually, Europe is planning to do just that, although possibly not from Qaddafi. See the following article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65J1ZO20100620

They are currently looking into receiving power from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Actually, it can still be very useful. The advantage of a battery is not only that it can store energy, but also makes it transportable. This would be very useful to move an energy source to a location where power generation is not (easily) possible.

Consider how solar cells, even though they might cost more energy to make than they will ever supply during their lifetime are still very useful powering a communication satellite. In the same way, this material might be interesting to send to outer space, or as power supply in other very remote locations.

The problem with a classroom is that it was not meant as a forum for theoretical discussion, but as a way to imbue knowledge into our children. Schools prepare our children by pumping them full of knowledge. The first class of math that children follow in school tells them how to add numbers, how to substract. It does not challenge them to discuss why 1 is not equal to 0, or what the relative value is of imaginary numbers. During the age till 18 (and sometimes thereafter), schools just basically pump facts and common understood theories into our children.
Only at a relatively late age do they actually ask students to challenge worldviews and things taken for granted.

If you want discussion in the classroom, you should allow it everywhere. If you teach about the bible, also teach about the koran, creation stories of native americans, and the origin stories of Africa.
When you talk about geology, teach them about flat earth and hollow earth.
If you talk about physics, teach them about perpetuum mobile.

However, if you do that, you will find that untill a certain age, children will not be critical, and instead accept most of what is being told to them by an elder as blind fact. The same way that children are not allowed to drive because of mental instead of physical limitations (there is an age limit, not a length limit), so should we teach children facts during their formative years, AND always encourage them to challenge ideas.

However, I do not see why biology would have to be the exception to the rule, where to teach facts, and where to challenge children with different ideas.

Currently, the European Parliament doesn't hold much power, although the Lisbon treaty did increase their power somewhat. You will either see idealistic people in the European Parliament, or people who more or less just collect a paycheck.
I'm somewhat afraid though what would happen should the EP get more power. This would suddenly make the members of parliament interesting for the lobbyists, and I wonder how long it will take before the bunch of them start making the same decisions that the EC is currently making. The EP might be doing its good work because it hasn't become a target yet.

Gotta love that imperial system. Wonder how much that is in metric.

The only problem is that they just told everyone 'Don't buy our game, pirate it if you want to have a good experience'.

If this was viral marketing, I'd fire the drone... uhmm.. marketeer.

This is all about liability. If your WiFi is open (aka, you are a child-eating terrorist ;) then you can quite easily claim that anything that happened from your IP address was not done by you, but instead by some guest to your network.
However, if you have a protected network, and something is done from the IP address registered to you, you can be sure that you will be held accountable for all the actions being taken from your IP address. Since your network wasn't open, it must have been you.

If they want to make new laws, where for example downloading music and movies is forbidden (currently, in some countries downloading is not illegal), they first need to block the escape route (I didn't download that, it was probably done by a guest on my network).
This will be especially true once the great firewalls come into effect, and visiting the website of the opposition party of your government will be deemed subversive.

Which brings us back to teaching what in science class, and you can teach why when you do a course in philosophy. By the way, when you do philosophy, why not go the extra mile, and try to teach a little about every religion.

I think the fact that we have three claimants, who apparently aren't suing each other, but are suing a multibillion dollar company for a quick buck does indicate what the real motives behind their trademark protection action are. I mean, all three are apparently in the same market as Microsoft's search engine, but they are not protecting their trademark from each other? Sounds like they forfeited their trademark. Or do you only need to protect your trademark from large companies with deep pockets?

The discussion is not whether his hacking of the system was legal or not.
The question is about having to fix someone else's security hole, that you used to gain access.
In your example, if a burglar comes into your home because you didn't have a lock on your door, and steals stuff, he is liable for the stuff he stole. But you can't make him buy you a lock if you didn't own one.

Sadly, this doesn't seem to be an option anymore, since advertisers have decided to 'GET IN YOUR FACE'. I sometimes have the radio turned on in the background, but you always notice when the ads come on, because for some reason, the sound becomes much louder.
Same with TV ads. Sometimes when going to the computer to look something up, I leave the TV on, which isn't bothering me, until the commercials start, and because of the increased volume and flashy lights, I am unable to concentrate on what I was doing, until I switch the thing off. For some reason they seem to think that the more obnoxious they behave, the more you will like their product?
Or perhaps they think that they need to make sure that you can still hear their ad in the kitchen if you get up to get a drink once the commercials start.

Which is part of current culture's problems. It's cheaper to make some disposable piece of crap, and in 30 years time, we toss about 6 devices away, filling up a huge junkpile.
We could have spend just a little more, and have something that actually keeps working, but then you'd not have the newest and most shiny device all the time, and hey, we just ship our (toxic) waste over to China anyway, so who cares. And if you don't have the money to buy the latest shiny thing, just borrow it. There's nothing wrong with spending more money than you own and can pay back your loans for, is there????