Let's also remember this is an international flight... that had nothing to do with US Security. He snuck his "explosives" on in Nigeria, and got it through a simple plane change in Amsterdam.

How the US could imagine its all their own fault will be amazing, but I'm sure they can do it.

The same Army Crop of Engineers widened the channels that made this disaster occur. They are to blame from beginning to end, they are the most corrupt part of our government, taking handouts to do busy work, then throwing out all environment impact studies for a few dollar contribution from some happy developer.

They could have fixed it, but they preferred spending money on dredging yet another channel that no one actual would use. Bush doesn't need to be blamed for transferring money, the Corp does enough damage itself, but the agri subsidies it runs on its own corruption and no one wants to try and fix it.

They did not build the city next to the gulf and below water. Open a history book, this is a man made disaster, we humans have moved the Gulf to New Orleans and sunk the city. Its what happend when you destroy thousands of square miles of wetlands to allow a couple more ships per day up the Mississippi and ignore why people built New Orleans so far inland (it was to the Gulf originally as Baton Rouge is now.)

For a supposed bunch of intelligent people, most of you readers on Slashdot seem to know nothing of history, nor of engineered malfeasance.

I wish this was right at the top. I was hoping someone would point out that New Orleans was not naturally in a dangerzone.

The Army Corp of Engineers over a century of work has done so much damage to the surrounding wetlands that the Gulf has encroached hundreds of miles, and the city itself has sunk. The Army Corp in trying to tame the Mississippi doomed New Orleans to this fate, and then did nothing to protect it. Instead they waste money on dredging more channels that will be barely if ever used, and lead to more damaged wetlands and increased flooding.

GPS would have helped when the Burglar broke into my house and wasn't kind enough to close the back door they bashed in on the way back out.

My scared cat stayed inside, my 2 dogs also stuck around (the thieves did close the front door on the way out.) But my adventurous cat decided to take a walk. We had signs up, every shelter contacted. Our kitty has an ID Chip so if someone picked her up and take her to a vet we'd be okay.

Thankfully 2 weeks later she was meowing on our front porch to be let back in (guess all the tuna bait helped.)

If I had a small GPS locator I would have found her that first day, probably very close to where we were already looking.

Everyone complaining about Politics and Free Speech, when this is all about Flickr bandwidth and publicity.

Probably someone low level saw the massive downloads, checked it out, and pulled it down because they thought it was bad publicity for the company.

But here on Slashdot, its a giant conspiracy wrapped in Enigma, with a side of cheese.

Pathetic.

All you have to do to see how bad our current practices effect the environment is take a boat ride out of the Mississippi delta and into the Gulf, its a gigantic deadzone formed by the fertilizer runoffs. I believe this years deadzone is slightly smaller than last year, only about 10% of the Gulf no longer supports life.

1. This just gives them more reason to not update, and go underground.
2. So many things these days get you labeled as a sex offender, that the odds are the person you're shunning is actually a decent human who had nothing to do with what your mind thinks.

Security Theater indeed. this stuff makes me actually angry.

Those were the best RPG's out there, and they really should be brought up for modern computing. BGII had a huge explorable world with more to do than needed. I'd love to see all 3 series updated.

But the keyboard commando's want these plans badly, and while whine loudly about not getting their way. Quite often they will talk about strategy and tactical defense, from the PoV of someone who's only actual knowledge is that game of Risk back in college.

As a top ten percent user, this is it, the final straw. I'll pay the whole $3 a month for premium service. I hope they're happy, they've converted me from a non-paying user to a paid subscriber.

I hit the 40 hours probably the first week of every month, I require a soundtrack to be able to program, and Pandora works wonders for me.

Tie Fighter is still one of my absolute favorite games of all time. Even as I upgraded my computer for years I'd make sure I could still play it somehow. Its also the only reason I have a joystick.

So yes, I'd love to see it come back. I love Tie Fighters version of space combat.

Sad about the Phaeton. That car is a marvel of its own, VW threw everything they could to make it, but its popularity never took off because they stuck the VW badge on it.

When the president of a major auto company says no shortcuts, you get the Phaeton.

Nothing shocking here. Casio has there G'zone which is pretty damn hard to break. I got mine for Mountain Climbing,and also because I seem to drop phones into any water source (don't know if I'm cursed or not.)

One thing not advertised, these phones are rather large for a cellphone these days, so you can also use it as a blunt weapon.